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The 2017 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2017 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 first regular season game at SunTrust Park was on April 14, 2017, against the San Diego Padres. There were plans to host some games at Olympic Stadium in London, England during the season but the plans were dropped after a lack of time for negotiations. [126] There was a series played in London in 2019, between the Yankees and the Red Sox.
Henry and Holly Stephenson, a husband-and-wife team, were in charge of constructing the MLB calendar for over two decades (1981–2004). [5] [6] [7] For the 2005 schedule, the MLB selected the Sports Scheduling Group, a small company located outside Pittsburgh, to craft the schedule for that year. Each year, the MLB considers the scheduling ...
The MLB average pop time is 2.01 seconds. [4] A pop time of less than 2.0 seconds affords the pitcher 1.3 seconds to throw the ball to the catcher. [5] Salvador Perez's 1.74 pop time during a 2017 throw was considered "stretch[ing] the boundaries of the position". [6] Austin Hedges led MLB in pop time in the 2017 season, with a 1.86 second ...
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 ...
November 7 – Roy Halladay, 40, eight-time All-Star and two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, who posted a 203–105 record with a 3.38 ERA from 1998 to 2013, while pitching the 20th perfect game in MLB history in 2010 as well as a no-hitter in the 2010 NLDS playoffs.
The 2017 American League Division Series were two best-of-five-games series held in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2017 postseason to determine the participating teams in the 2017 American League Championship Series. The three divisional winners (seeded 1–3) and a fourth team—the winner of a one-game Wild Card playoff—played in two series.
The last time two teams met in the NLCS consecutive years was back in 2008 and 2009, in which the Phillies defeated the Dodgers in five games on both occasions (4–1). The last time a team avenged an NLCS loss with an NLCS win against the same opponent the following year was the Astros over the Cardinals in 2005 (4–2) after losing to the ...