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Wakamatsu, the first MLB manager of Asian-American descent, was fired on August 9 and replaced by Brown, at the time in his fourth season managing the Mariners' AAA affiliate, the Tacoma Rainiers. The team was expected to contend for the American League West title with the addition of Chone Figgins and Cliff Lee , but stumbled out of the ...
The 2011 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2011 season. The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series .
The 2011 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2011 postseason that pitted the winners of the 2011 American League Division Series (the second-seeded Texas Rangers and third-seeded Detroit Tigers), against each other for the American League.
The regular season finished on September 28, with the ALDS beginning September 30. [2] Game 5 of the Yankees–Tigers series was played on October 6. [3] Under MLB's playoff format, no two teams from the same division were matched up in the Division Series, regardless of whether their records would normally indicate such a matchup.
On September 14, the Philadelphia Phillies became the first team to qualify for the NLDS (additionally they had the best record in MLB with 102 wins and 60 losses, 13 games over Atlanta in the National League East (NL East) at the end of the 2011 season, as well as the first team in either league to qualify for the postseason). [4]
The Philadelphia Phillies' 2011 season was the 129th season in the history of the franchise. The Phillies won their fifth consecutive National League East championship, and also finished with the best record in baseball for the second straight year. The Phillies, at 3–1 odds, [1] were the heavy-favorite to win the World Series.
Major League Baseball's 2024 season is in its penultimate week with playoff spots very much up for grabs. Things are heating up in the wild-card races in both leagues, with a handful of teams ...
MLB AL — 5th 81 70 .536 12½ 1905: MLB AL * — 1st 92 56 .622 — Lost World Series 4–1 * 1906: MLB AL — 4th 78 67 .538 12 1907: MLB AL — 2nd 88 57 .607 1½ 1908: MLB AL — 6th 68 85 .444 22 1909: MLB AL — 2nd 95 58 .621 3½ 1910: MLB † AL * — 1st 102 48 .680 — Won World Series 4–1 † 1911: MLB † AL * — 1st 101 50 .669 ...