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The 1978 American League East tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 regular season.The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston on the afternoon of Monday, October 2 between the rival New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to determine the winner of the American League's (AL) East Division.
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The 1978 Boston Red Sox season was the 78th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. After 162 regular-season games, the Red Sox and the New York Yankees finished tied atop the American League East division, with identical 99–63 records. The teams then played a tie-breaker game, which was won by New York, 5–4. [1]
1978 American League East Tiebreaker - New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox #11 March 7, 2011 Bucky Dent and Lou Piniella: 1988 World Series Game 1 - Oakland Athletics vs. Los Angeles #10 [15] March 14, 2011 Kirk Gibson and Dave Stewart: 2001 World Series Game 7 - New York Yankees vs. Arizona Diamondbacks #9 March 21, 2011 Joe Torre and Tim McCarver
The Red Sox then win eight games in a row to force the 1978 American League East tie-breaker game on October 2. Ralph Houk, 59, manager of the Detroit Tigers since 1974, announces his retirement after five years at the helm.
In 1978, Dent is widely remembered for hitting a three-run home run that gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead in the AL East division tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox. [1] This was all the more remarkable because Dent was not a power hitter; his seventh-inning home run was one of only 40 he hit in his entire 12-year career.
One-game playoff games appended to a Major League Baseball season to break a tie in the regular-season standings. This does not include "winner-takes-all" final games of a postseason series, e.g., the seventh game of a best-of-seven series.