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The 2008 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim season was the 48th season for the franchise.The regular season ended with the Angels winning their seventh American League West title and setting a franchise record for single-season wins.
The Angels got to an early lead when Juan Rivera drew a bases loaded walk to score Chone Figgins from third. A fielding miscue by the Angels in the second inning caused a fly ball hit by Jacoby Ellsbury to drop between Torii Hunter and Howie Kendrick in shallow center field , scoring three runs ( Jed Lowrie , Jason Varitek , and Coco Crisp ...
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Los Angeles Angels American League franchise (1961–1965; 2016–present), also known previously as the California Angels (1965–1996), Anaheim Angels (1997–2004) and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2005–2015).
Due to the move, the franchise was known as the California Angels from 1965 to 1996 and the Anaheim Angels from 1997 to 2004. "Los Angeles" was added back to the name in 2005, but because of a lease agreement with Anaheim that required the city to also be in the name, the franchise was known as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim until 2015. The ...
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim finish with a 100–62 record, to finish the regular season with the majors' best record. The Angels also enter in the baseball record books as the only team since 1931 to win 100 games in a season without a 30-home run hitter, a 100-RBI producer, or a 20-game winning pitcher, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The 2008 Major League Baseball season began on March 25, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan with the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeating the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome 6–5 (in 10 innings) in the first game of a two-game series, [1] [2] and ended on September 30 with the host Chicago White Sox defeating the Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff to win the AL Central.
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The 2008 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the American League side in Major League Baseball's 2008 postseason, was a best-of-seven series matching the two winners of the American League Division Series.