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Topic: 1999 American League Championship Series


  
  American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series (ALCS), played in October, is a playoff round that determines the winner of the American League pennant.
The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.
In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five playoff round, known as the American League Division Series or ALDS.
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 2004 American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2004 American League Championship Series was a Major League Baseball playoff series played between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
The series, a rematch of the 2003 American League Championship Series, started on October 12, 2004 and ended one minute after midnight Eastern Time on October 21.
The Boston Red Sox clinched their 11th American League Pennant in team history on Yankee legend Whitey Ford's birthday on October 21, since the game was officially clinched a minute after midnight, which signifies the next day.
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 Boston Red Sox
Since the gutting of the championship team, the Red Sox have never won a World Series, and Red Sox fans often speak of the Curse of the Bambino -- a play on one of Ruth's nicknames.
They lost the series, breaking the hearts of their fans; but the events of 1967 are cherished by the team's historians.
The Red Sox won the American League East in both 1988 and 1990, only to get swept 4-0 by the Oakland Athletics both times.
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 WhoWins(tm) -- Best-of-7 Series 938: St. Louis vs Boston (MLB)
Series 938 is only the fourth "annihilation" in best-of-7 MLB playoff series history: The losing St. Louis Cardinals not only failed to win a single series 938 game, but also failed to hold a lead in any of the four series 938 games.
Series 938 Game 1 was the highest-scoring best-of-7 MLB playoff Game 1 ever at 20 total runs, breaking the old record of 18 runs set by the New York Yankees (12) and Chicago Cubs (6) in the first game of the 1932 World Series.
Series 938 is the third best-of-7 meeting between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, with St. Louis having won series 59 (the 1946 World Series) and series 186 (the 1967 World Series).
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 Wikinfo | Boston Red Sox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Yaz won the American League Triple Crown and put on one of the greatest displays of hitting down the stretch in baseball history.
Game 6 of the World Series, against the Cincinnati Reds' so-called "Big Red Machine," is regarded by some as the greatest game in baseball postseason history, an extra-inning piece of drama featuring dramatic home runs by Bernie Carbo and Fisk (the latter the game-winner).
They then faced the Yankees in the 2003 American League Championship Series, and had a 5-2 lead over the Yankees in the 8th inning of game 7, but collapsed to lose the game 6-5 in 11 innings, and Red Sox players and fans were left disappointed once again.
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 WhoWins(tm) -- Best-of-7 Series 903: Boston vs New York (MLB)
When trailing a best-of-7 MLB playoff series 3-games-2, the Boston Red Sox have a series record of 1-2 (the win occurred in their last such series, which was best-of-7 series 473 -- the 1986 American League Championship Series vs. the California Angels).
Series 903 is the first MLB best-of-7 series in which a team has lost Game 1 by three runs and won Game 2 by four.
Series 903 is the second best-of-7 meeting between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox: The first was MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 series 795 (the 1999 American League Championship Series in the MLB Semifinals round), which New York won in five games.
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 1972 American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1972 American League Championship Series took place between October 7 and October 12 of 1972.
After the Athletics won the first two games of the series at home, they had to travel to Detroit, where the Tigers would fight back, winning the next two.
Odom got the win, Blue got the save, and the A's were a World Series team for the first of three straight years.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1972_American_League_Championship_Series   (451 words)

  
 Minor League Baseball: History: Top 100 Teams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The league started with six teams, but two folded in less than a month, leaving four cities that would be associated with one another for decades to come: Albuquerque, El Paso, Phoenix and Tucson.
The Class D Arizona-Texas League (originally Arizona State League) made the leap from semi-pro ball to O.B in 1928 and the Albuquerque Dons joined the circuit in 1932.
Under the leadership of Del Crandall, Albuquerque was PCL co-champion in 1978 when the final playoff with Tacoma was halted by rain, won the second half in the South in 1979 and took the league championship in 1980.
www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/milb/history/top100.jsp?idx=11   (4645 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Minor League Baseball - Roundup: Notable names making comebacks in minors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The league's reigning Player of the Week, Pena is one of three minor leaguers close to the 20/20 plateau.
Morneau, a third-round pick in 1999, delivered a sacrifice fly in the top of the first inning, doubled home a pair of runs in the ninth and gave Fort Myers a two-run advantage in the top of the 15th with an RBI groundout.
Bowie (Double-A-Eastern League) C Tom McGee was mired in an 0-for-46 slump before breaking his hand in the fifth inning of a 10-5 loss to Akron on July 14.
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 American League Championship Series
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 SCHUMER, KENNEDY WAGER ON YANKEES-RED SOX AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
With the Yankees and the Red Sox set to begin the American League Championship Series tomorrow night in New York, US Senators Charles Schumer and Ted Kennedy today announced that they have made a bet on the outcome of the series.
The last time the Yankees and the Red Sox faced one another was in 1999 when the Yankees eliminated the Red Sox from the American League Championship Series in five games.
Schumer and Kennedy had a bet on that series where the loser had to wear the cap of the winning team and recite "Casey at the Bat" on the steps of the US Capitol.
www.senate.gov /~schumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR02089.html   (307 words)

  
 Major League Baseball : History : World Series History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The last World Series of the millennium featured the franchise with the most titles in the 20th century.
Atlanta was determined to give its ailing starter some support, as Bret Boone doubled three times in the first four innings and every Braves starter had a hit by the fifth.
The Yankees' World Series streak appeared finished until Chad Curtis homered in the bottom half of the inning.
mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws_recaps.jsp?feature=1999   (601 words)

  
 CNN/SI - 1999 MLB Playoffs
The Red Sox staged the newest version of the Boston Massacre, setting major league postseason records for runs and hits in a 23-7 rout of the Cleveland Indians that evened their American League Division Series at two wins apiece.
The 24 hits eclipsed the mark of 22 by Atlanta in the 1996 National League Championship Series against St. Louis.
Cleveland's Manny Ramirez, who drove in 165 runs in the regular season, was 0-for-3 and is hitless in 15 at-bats in the series.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/al/recaps/1999/10/10/red.sox_indians   (1098 words)

  
 CNN/SI - 1999 MLB World Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Yankees won their third World Series in four years and became the first repeat winners since the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992-93.
The only serious Atlanta threat came in the eighth, when Walt Weiss reached on a one-out infield single, stepping on Clemens' leg as the pitcher covered first base.
Meanwhile, the Braves tied a record for World Series futility with their eighth straight defeat, done previously by the Philadelphia Phillies (1915, 1950) and the Yankees (1921-23).
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/ml/recaps/1999/10/27/yankees_braves   (1251 words)

  
 American League Championship Series Results
The League Championship Series (LCS) was started in 1969 when the American League was split into two divisions, the East and West.
The East and West winners met in the LCS (sometimes referred to as the "Playoffs") from 1969 to 1993.
In 1994 the league was split into three, adding a Central Division.
www.thebaseballpage.com /stats/postseason/al_lcs.htm   (396 words)

  
 Derek Jeter | The BASEBALL Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1998, he finished third in American League MVP balloting as the Yankees won their second World Series in three years.
In 1999, it was another four-game sweep, this time at the expense of the Braves.
The 1999 season was one of Jeter's finest, as he paced the league in hits, finished second in batting, second in OBP, second in runs scored and triples, and fourth in total bases.
www.thebaseballpage.com /players/jeterde01.php   (1101 words)

  
 The Sporting News - The New York Yankees, Century of Champions
In the Series opener, a fourth-inning homer by Lou Gehrig gave the Yankees a 3-2 victory.
The turning point of the series occurs in Game 1, when Derek Jeter's fly ball in the eighth was pulled into the seats by 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier and ruled a home run by umpire Rich Garcia.
For the first time in major league history, a divisional playoff was established due to a split season created by the players' strike.
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 AlterNet: The Budweiser National Pastime
"During the 1999 American League Championship Series on Fox Bud and Bud Light seemed to be the focus throughout the game.
At 8:44 a voice-over stated that the Championship Series was sponsored by Bud Light: "For the great taste that won't fill you up and will never let you down, make it a Bud Light." At 11:46, another voice-over stated that the game was sponsored by "brewery-fresh Budweiser."
War on Iraq: Bush administration hawks are getting profit-hungry companies like CACI to do their dirty work in the war zones of the New American Empire.
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 Rally Monkey.com - 2002 American League Championship Series Game 1 - October 8, 2002 - Twins 2, Angels 1
The Angels are seeking their first World Series appearance since joining the major leagues in 1961.
Mays, hit hard by Oakland in Game 2 of the five-game division series, shut down the Angels, who hit.376 in their four-game victory over the four-time defending AL champion Yankees -- the highest average by a team in any postseason series.
Minnesota had the fewest errors in the major leagues during the regular season (74) and Anaheim (87) was second in the AL.
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 New York-Boston 1999 Replay American League Championship Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The highlight belonged to Paul O'Neill who thrilled the crowd when he caught a hold of a fastball for a Grand Slam homerun (his 1st of the series).
He laced a single in the 1st inning, lofted a solo-blast 'downtown' in the 3rd inning and bombed a two-run dinger (his 3rd of the series) in the 5th inning.
He laced a single in the 1st inning, popped a two-run clout over the fence (his 4th of the series) in the 2nd inning and doubled plating a run in the 6th inning.
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 Syracuse Skychiefs/Pawtucket Red Sox International League recap on ESPN
With the SkyChiefs trailing, 3-2, entering the ninth, Vernon Wells tied the score with an RBI single and Cole Liniak followed Freel's extra-base hit with a sacrifice fly to cap the four-run rally.
Saberhagen, who last pitched for Boston in the 1999 American League Championship Series versus the New York Yankees, allowed a pair of runs and three hits with four strikeouts over six innings of starting pitching but did not figure in the decision.
When asked whether he was ready to return the major leagues, the two-time American League Cy Young Award winner responded "I don't feel that it's going to get much better than what I'm at now." He went on to say "If there's a spot for me, I'm ready.
espn.go.com /minorlbb/bbi/2001/20010721/recap/syrpaw.html   (374 words)

  
 American League Championship Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Boston, which averaged eight runs a game in a sweep of the Angels in their Division Series, led the AL in runs scored, slugging and on-base percentage, with the Yankees second in each category.
The Yankees, however, have won 26 World Series titles since Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $125,000.
The Yankees denied the Red Sox in 1999 and again last year, but not this time.
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 1999 ALCS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The teams met in the playoffs for the first time in 1999 as the Yankees had won the American League East title and the Red Sox had claimed the American League Wild Card.
Boston took a more adventerous route as they fell behind the Cleveland Indians two games to none before rallying to win the final three games of the series to set up their date with the Yankees.
After finishing the regular season with a 17-9 record and a 4.12 ERA, El Duque would spend the 1999 post-season going 3-0 with a 1.20 ERA in 4 starts.
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David Ortiz homered in the 10th inning to send the Boston Red Sox into their second consecutive AL championship series, completing a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angels with an 8-6
With the sweep, the Red Sox have four days to rest for the AL championship series that starts Tuesday.
Their opponent will be either the archrival New York Yankees or the Minnesota Twins; they were tied one game apiece as the series moved to Minneapolis for Game 3 on Friday night.
www.firstcoastnews.com /sports/news-article.aspx?storyid=25525   (866 words)

  
 1969 American League Championship Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1969 American League Championship Series was the first ALCS held after Major League Baseball adopted the two-division format that season.
It featured the Baltimore Orioles vs. the Minnesota Twins, with the Orioles winning the series 3-0 and advancing to the 1969 World Series, where they would lose to the New York Mets in one of baseball's great upsets.
The Orioles and Twins would meet again the following year, with similar results.
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 American League Championship Preview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In a game where the Indians had scored 8 runs in the first three innings, he came in and pitched 6 no-hit innings.
They swept a three game series in the Stadium in September to make a race if the AL East.
The first game they were dominated by Bartolo Colon, they did nothing with Nagy in game two.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- American League Championship Series   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
DEFENSE: Red Sox second baseman Todd Walker was a disaster afield with five errors in the A's series.
The Yankees won the first of their 26 World Series titles in 1923, four years after the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to New York; the Red Sox have won five – but none since 1918.
The Yankees won the ALCS four games to one in 1999, and Ruth's daughter threw out the first pitch in the deciding game.
www.signonsandiego.com /sports/baseball/20031008-9999_mz1s8basbal.html   (520 words)

  
 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES / Rallying monkeys ambush Twins / 5-run eighth leaves Angels one win away from ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
For most of the night, it appeared the Angels and Twins were bound for their third low-scoring, one-run game of the American League Championship Series.
The Twins, meanwhile, still take heart in the fact that they were down 2-1 to the A's in the best-of-five Division Series and had to win the final two games to advance.
This is the 11th time a team has taken a 3-1 lead in the ALCS; only two teams have failed to advance after going up by that measure -- Toronto, which fell to Kansas City in 1985.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/13/SP159334.DTL   (873 words)

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