2012 American League Championship Series
Tigers sweep the Yankees 4–0 for the 2012 AL pennant.
The 2012 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2012 postseason pitting the top-seeded New York Yankees against the third-seeded Detroit Tigers for the American League pennant and the right to play in the 2012 World Series. The series began on Saturday, October 13 in New York and ended on Thursday, October 18 in Detroit. The Tigers swept the Yankees, winning the series 4–0.
Quick Facts
- Champion
- Detroit Tigers (4)
- Champion manager
- Jim Leyland
- Champion games
- 88–74, 88, 74, GA: 3
- Date
- October 13–18
- Television
- TBS; MLB International
- Announcers
- Ernie Johnson Jr., Ron Darling, John Smoltz, and Craig Sager (TBS); Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe (MLB International)
- Radio network
- ESPN
- Radio announcers
- Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser
Facts from the source article.
Background
This was the third postseason meeting between the Yankees and the Tigers, but the first in the ALCS; the Tigers had beaten the Yankees in the 2006 ALDS (3–1) and the 2011 ALDS (3–2). The last ALCS appearance for each team had ended in a loss to the Texas Rangers, the Yankees in 2010 and the Tigers in 2011. The Tigers went on to lose in a sweep to the San Francisco Giants in the World Series.
Did You Know?
- Game 4 was postponed from October 17 due to rain.
- The 2012 pennant is the last conference championship won by a Detroit-based team in any of the four major leagues, according to the series' article.
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