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TSN2 held rights to the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecasts. In Australia, it was free to air channel One HD and showed up to five games live per week, and European channel ESPN America broadcast games as well. For international viewers, MLB International broadcast the All-Star Game, the NLCS and the World Series.
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. This was the last postseason to feature the 8-team format, as next season ...
The 2011 Major League Baseball wild card chase (also known as Game 162) was a playoff chase involving the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays in the American League and the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals in the National League.
May 1 – At the end of the eighth inning of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, ESPN's Dan Shulman announces that Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has been killed by U.S. Special Forces in Pakistan.
The Cardinals rose to first place in the standings despite major problems in the bullpen. Ryan Franklin blew four of his first five save opportunities and the Cardinals lost all four of those games. Franklin never got another save opportunity after blowing a save against the Dodgers on April 17, and finished the month with a 10.12 ERA. [31]
The 2011 American League Division Series (abbreviated ALDS) were two best-of-five playoffs comprising the opening round of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2011 postseason, played to determine the participating teams in the 2011 American League Championship Series. Three divisional winners and a fourth team—a wild card—played in two series.
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The offseason for the Phillies began on October 23, 2010, when they lost the National League Championship Series to the San Francisco Giants.Although all coaches were invited to return for the 2011 season, first-base coach Davey Lopes informed the team that he would be leaving because of a salary dispute. [2]