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The 2023 American League Division Series (ALDS) were the two best-of-five playoff series in Major League Baseball (MLB) to determine the participating teams of the 2023 American League Championship Series (ALCS). These matchups were: (1) Baltimore Orioles (AL East champions) vs. (5) Texas Rangers (Wild Card Series winner): Rangers win series 3–0.
The 2023 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2023 season.The winners of the Wild Card Series faced the two best division winners (seeds) in each league in the Division Series, and the victors advanced to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners who played each other in the World Series.
(2) Los Angeles Dodgers (NL West champions) vs. (6) Arizona Diamondbacks (Wild Card Series winner): Diamondbacks win series 3–0. The Diamondbacks would go on to defeat the Phillies in seven games in the NLCS before falling to the American League champion Texas Rangers in five games in the World Series.
The ALDS is a best-of-five series where the divisional winner with the best winning percentage in the regular season hosts the winner of the Wild Card Series between the top two wild card teams in one matchup, and the divisional winner with the second best winning percentage hosts the winner of the series between the lowest-seeded divisional winner and the lowest-seeded wild card team. [1]
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.
What you need to know about the MLB playoffs. The Dodgers and other teams seeded No. 1 or No. 2 have five days off while four best-of-three wild-card matchups take place.
On August 24, 2022, Major League Baseball released its 2023 schedule. There were 162 games scheduled for all teams. This season was the first MLB season of a new balanced schedule in which every team played each other at least once, similar to the NBA and NHL. The new balanced schedule included 13 games against their division rivals, totaling ...
The Arizona Diamondbacks qualified for the postseason as the sixth seed wild card entrant with an 84–78 record. In the Wild Card Series, they swept the third-seeded and National League Central division winner Milwaukee Brewers, and then swept and upset the second-seeded and National League West division winner 100-win Los Angeles Dodgers in the Division Series to reach the National League ...