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2021 American League Championship Series
The 2021 American League Championship Series was the best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball (MLB) between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros. The series determined the American League pennant winner, the Astros, who advanced to the 2021 World Series. The series was played in a 2–3–2 format, with the first two and last two (if game 7 had been necessary) games played at the home ballpark of the higher seeded team, the Astros. Fox and FS1 televised all games in the United States. The Astros would go on to lose to the Atlanta Braves in the World Series in six games. Background The Boston Red Sox qualified for the postseason as the first wild card team in the American League. They defeated the New York Yankees in the Wild Card Game, then defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in four games in the Division Series. This was Boston's 12th appearance in the American League Championship Series (ALCS), having accrued a 6–5 record in prior appearances. The Houston Astros qualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Houston Astros Season
The 2021 Houston Astros season was the List of Houston Astros seasons, 60th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas, their 57th as the Astros, ninth in both the American League (AL) and American League West, AL West division, and 22nd at Minute Maid Park. Four Astros players gained selection to the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 2021 All-Star Game, tied for the second most from any team in baseball. The four were second baseman José Altuve, shortstop Carlos Correa, outfielder Michael Brantley, and relief pitcher Ryan Pressly, although none of them participated in the game. First baseman Yuli Gurriel won the AL List of Major League Baseball batting champions, batting title, his first, with a .319 batting average, becoming the second Cuban-born player and second Astro to do so. Correa led AL position players with 7.2 Wins Above Replacement (WAR). The Astros concluded the regular season with a 95–67 record, while clinching an AL West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Iassogna
Daniel Ralph Iassogna (born May 3, 1969) is an American umpire in Major League Baseball. He joined the major league staff in . In 2012, Iassogna worked his first World Series. He was promoted to crew chief for the 2020 season. Umpiring career His professional umpiring career began in 1992, and he advanced to the International League in 1998. He umpired his first major league game in , and worked as a fill-in for vacationing or injured major league umpires for the next four seasons. In 2004, Iassogna was promoted to the major leagues to replace the retired Steve Rippley. He umpired in the postseason in only his second year as a full-time major league umpire, and has worked three World Series (2012, 2017, 2022), six League Championship Series (2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2021) and seven Division Series (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2022). Iassogna also worked the 2011 All-Star Game and the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Notable games Iassogna was the third base umpire when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 American League Wild Card Game
The 2021 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during the Major League Baseball (MLB) 2021 postseason, contested between the two wild card teams in the American League (AL), the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. It was played on October 5 at Fenway Park in Boston, with the winner—the Boston Red Sox—advancing to the American League Division Series to face the Tampa Bay Rays, winner of the AL East. The game was televised nationally by ESPN and presented by Hankook Tire. An alternate telecast, featuring Statcast analytics, aired on ESPN2. Background Entering the final day of the regular season, October 3, four teams were in contention for the two wild card berths: the Boston Red Sox (91–70), New York Yankees (91–70), Seattle Mariners (90–71) and Toronto Blue Jays (90–71). The Yankees defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, thus assuring New York of a spot in the Wild Card Game due to their 92–70 record. The Red Sox won, defeating the Washington Nationals, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City, the other is the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. The team was founded in when Frank J. Farrell, Frank Farrell and William Stephen Devery, Bill Devery purchased the franchise rights to the defunct Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the current Baltimore Orioles, team of the same name) after it ceased operations and used them to establish the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the New York Yankees in . The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a limited liability company that is controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner, who purchased the team in 1973. Brian Cashman is the team's general manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Baseball Wild Card
In Major League Baseball (MLB), the wild card teams are the three teams in each of the two leagues (American and National) that have qualified for the postseason despite failing to win their division. Those teams in each league possess the three best winning percentages in their league after the three division winners. The wild card was first instituted in MLB in 1994, with one wild card team per league advancing to the Division Series in the postseason to face a division winner. In 2012, the system was modified to add a second wild card team per league and pit each league's wild card teams against each other in a play-in game – the MLB Wild Card Game – the winner of which would then advance to the Division Series and play the team with the best record. The two teams with the best records outside of the division champions advanced to the wild card game. The two wild card teams could come out of the same division so there was no guarantee a team that came in second place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Atlanta Braves Season
The 2021 Atlanta Braves season was the 151st season of the Atlanta Braves franchise, the 56th Season in Atlanta, and the Braves' 5th season at Truist Park. The Braves were managed by Brian Snitker, in his sixth season as the team’s Manager (baseball), manager. The Braves clinched their fourth consecutive National League East division title. They defeated the 2021 Milwaukee Brewers season, Milwaukee Brewers in the 2021 National League Division Series, Division Series and faced the 2021 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2021 National League Championship Series, Championship Series for the second straight year. They defeated the Dodgers in six games to reach the 2021 World Series, World Series for the first time since 1999 World Series, 1999. They would go on to defeat the 2021 Houston Astros season, Houston Astros in six games, winning their first World Series since 1995 Atlanta Braves season, 1995, their second since moving to Atlanta, and their fourth in fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seed (sports)
A seed is a competitor or team in a sport or other tournament who is given a preliminary ranking for the purposes of the draw. Players/teams are "planted" into the bracket in a manner that is typically intended so that the best do not meet until later in the competition, usually based on regular season. The term was first used in tennis, and is based on the idea of laying out a tournament ladder by arranging slips of paper with the names of players on them the way seeds or seedlings are arranged in a garden: smaller plants up front, larger ones behind. Sometimes the remaining competitors in a single-elimination tournament will be "re-seeded" so that the highest surviving seed is made to play the lowest surviving seed in the next round, the second-highest plays the second-lowest, etc. This may be done after each round, or only at selected intervals. Tennis Professional tennis tournaments seed players based on their rankings. The number of seeds varies from tournament to tournam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 World Series
The 2021 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2021 season. The 117th World Series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves and the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros. The series began on October 26 and concluded on November 2. The Braves won the series four games to two. It was their fourth World Series title in franchise history, their first since 1995, and their second since the franchise's relocation to Atlanta in 1966. The Braves advanced to the World Series after winning the NL East division title. Atlanta then defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Division Series and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. The Astros advanced to the World Series after winning the AL West. Houston then defeated the Chicago White Sox in the AL Division Series and the Boston Red Sox in the AL Championship Series. The Astros had home-field advantage due to their superior regu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major league status. It is sometimes called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season, 25 years after the formation of the National League (the "Senior Circuit"). At the end of every season, the American League champion plays in the World Series against the National League champion; two seasons did not end in playing a World Series (1904, when the National League champion New York Giants refused to play their AL counterpart, and 1994, when a players' strike prevented the Series). Through 2021, American League teams have won 66 of the 117 World Series played since 1903, with 27 of those coming from the New York Yankees alone. The New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and 1901, respectively. Beginning in 1903, the two leagues signed the National Agreement and cooperated but remained legally separate entities until 2000, when they merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball. MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. It is also included as one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Baseball's first all-professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was founded in 1869. Before that, some teams had secretly paid certain players. The first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Chicago White Sox Season
The 2021 Chicago White Sox season was the club's 122nd season in Chicago and 121st in the American League, and their first under new manager Tony La Russa since 1986. The White Sox played their home games at Guaranteed Rate Field. On September 23, after a win against the Cleveland Indians, the White Sox clinched the American League Central division for the first time since the 2008 season and became the first Major League team of the 2021 season to clinch their division. They finished the regular season with 93 wins, the third most in the American League and their most wins as a franchise since the 2005 season. By winning the American League Central, it secured the team their first back-to-back postseason appearance in franchise history after having clinched a wild card berth in the previous season. They lost to the Houston Astros in the 2021 American League Division Series. Offseason Manager On October 12, 2020, the White Sox fired manager Rick Renteria after Renteria manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Tampa Bay Rays Season
The 2021 Tampa Bay Rays season was the 24th season of the Tampa Bay Rays franchise and their 14th as the Rays. The Rays played their home games at Tropicana Field as members of Major League Baseball's American League East Division. The Rays finished with a 100–62 record, winning the American League East division title for the second consecutive season. It was the first time in franchise history the Rays repeated as division champions, and the first time in franchise history the Rays won 100 games. Manager Kevin Cash was named the American League Manager of the Year. However, they were upset in the Division Series, losing in 4 games to the Boston Red Sox. Season standings American League East American League Wild Card Rays team leaders ''Updated through game of September 9.'' Minimum 3.1 plate appearances per team games played AVG qualified batters: Arozarena, Díaz, Lowe, Meadows Minimum 1 inning pitched per team games played ERA & WHIP qualified pitchers: ''Non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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