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The 2023 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2023 postseason between the second-seeded Houston Astros and the fifth-seeded Texas Rangers for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2023 World Series. The Rangers won the series four games to three.
Tony La Russa and Jim Leyland are the only managers to lead their teams to three consecutive League Championship Series appearances in both leagues. The Milwaukee Brewers , an American League team between 1969 and 1997, and the Houston Astros , a National League team between 1962 and 2012, are the only franchises to play in both the ALCS and NLCS.
This is the first American League Championship Series since 2016 to not feature the Houston Astros, who were swept by the Detroit Tigers in the Wild Card Series.This brought an end to the Astros' streak of seven consecutive ALCS appearances (2017–2023), the most consecutive LCS appearances in the American League and the second-most consecutive LCS appearances after the Atlanta Braves ...
But the Astros tagged him for seven runs, all of those coming on three homers, in three innings on Sept. 6. Gray went 9-8 with a 4.12 ERA in 29 starts this season. Each team has 13 position ...
This was the fifth consecutive ALCS appearance for the Astros, which was the first time a team had accomplished this feat since the 1991–1999 Atlanta Braves and the first in the AL since the 1971–1975 Oakland Athletics. [7] The Astros won two of their four prior ALCS appearances. [5]
The 2017 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2017 postseason pitting the second-seeded Houston Astros against the fourth-seeded New York Yankees for the American League pennant and the right to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series. The Astros defeated the Yankees in seven ...
The series was a rematch of the 1972 American League Championship Series (then a best-of-five series), in which Oakland defeated Detroit in 5 games. Detroit manager Jim Leyland, who led the Florida Marlins to the 1997 World Series title, became the seventh manager in history to win pennants in both leagues. It was the second consecutive ALCS ...
It was also the first ALCS to feature two 100-win teams since 1977, [3] when the New York Yankees (100–62) defeated the Kansas City Royals (102–60). Boston and Houston had met once before in the postseason, with the Astros winning the 2017 ALDS , 3–1; that year Alex Cora was Houston's bench coach before becoming manager of Boston for the ...