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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 ...
The Yankees, with losses in the ALCS in 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019, and 2022, became the first team to lose in the LCS five straight times. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] This was the first four-game sweep of the Yankees since the 2012 American League Championship Series and it is also the first time that the Astros have swept an opponent in a best-of-seven game ...
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 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 ...
The 2015 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2015 postseason contested between the second-seeded Toronto Blue Jays and the top-seeded Kansas City Royals for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2015 World Series. The series is the 46th in league history.