2018 American League Wild Card Game
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| Date | October 3, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Yankee Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | The Bronx, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Attendance | 49,620 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | TBS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, Dennis Eckersley, and Lauren Shehadi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Eduardo Pérez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2018 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2018 postseason contested between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams, the New York Yankees and the Oakland Athletics.[1] The game took place at Yankee Stadium on October 3, starting at 8:08 pm EDT.[2] The Yankees won, 7–2, and advanced to face the Boston Red Sox in the American League Division Series.[3]
This game started a part of the postseason where TBS broadcast postseason games because of the Fox's contract holdout with Optimum. Said holdout would continue until the 2018 World Series.
Background
[edit]New York entered the game with a 100–62 record, while Oakland was 97–65. They met six times during the regular season, with each team winning three times.[4]
This was New York's seventh playoff appearance as a wild card team. Since MLB's addition of a second wild card team in 2012, the Yankees had previously appeared in two Wild Card Games, a loss in 2015 and a win in 2017. The Yankees' appearance represented the first time a 100-win team played in a Wild Card Game. The most recent time that a 100-win team had not won their division was the 2001 Athletics.[5]
This was Oakland's third playoff appearance as a wild card team. They had previously appeared in one Wild Card Game, a loss in 2014.
This was the fourth time the Yankees and A's met in postseason play—the Yankees had won the three prior meetings: the 1981 ALCS (3–0), 2000 ALDS (3–2), and 2001 ALDS (3–2).[6]
Game results
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Line score
[edit]| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Oakland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| New York | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | X | 7 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Dellin Betances (1–0) LP: Liam Hendriks (0–1) Home runs: OAK: Khris Davis (1) NYY: Aaron Judge (1), Giancarlo Stanton (1) Attendance: 49,620 Boxscore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luis Severino was the starting pitcher for the Yankees, while the Athletics used Liam Hendriks as an opener.[7] The Yankees scored two runs in the first inning, as Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer off of Hendriks. The Yankees added four runs in the sixth, on back-to-back doubles by Judge and Aaron Hicks, followed by a walk to Giancarlo Stanton and a triple by Luke Voit. In the eighth inning, Khris Davis hit a two-run home run for Oakland and Stanton hit a home run for New York.
References
[edit]- ^ Perry, Dayn (September 25, 2018). "AL playoff field is set after Athletics clinch wild-card spot, Yankees eliminate Rays from postseason contention". CBS Sports. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
- ^ Hoch, Bryan (October 2, 2018). "Yankees tab Severino for AL Wild Card Game". MLB.com. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
- ^ "Five moments that helped the NY Yankees advance in Wild Card win over A's".
- ^ "MLB Standings Grid - 2018". ESPN. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
- ^ Adler, David (August 12, 2018). "The 9 times a 100-win team didn't finish first". MLB News. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ^ "Yankees Postseason Results". MLB.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2007. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
- ^ Ackert, Kristie (October 2, 2018). "Yankees Luis Severino to face off against A's 'opener' Liam Hendriks in wild card game". New York Daily News.
Further reading
[edit]- Feinsand, Mark (September 28, 2018). "FAQs about A's-Yankees AL Wild Card Game". MLB.com. Retrieved September 28, 2018.