The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

He also broadcasts the World Series and either the ALCS or NLCS for MLB International, where he is teamed with Gary Thorne.

( However, if Fox is scheduled to broadcast the NLCS and the ALCS series is a showdown between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, then MLB will move the ALCS to Fox ).

While the NLCS was an exciting back-and-forth series, it was overshadowed in media attention by Boston's comeback in the ALCS.

The Yankees had reached the Fall Classic after their ALCS victory over the Baltimore Orioles, while the Braves had rallied from a 3 – 1 deficit to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS.

It is played by the winners of the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) and the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ).

With a new MLB TV contract signed, again excluding FX, the last such broadcast was scheduled for October 11, 2006, but that night's NLCS game between the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets was rained out, making the Detroit Tigers-Oakland Athletics game in the ALCS a national broadcast ; FX aired the movie Any Given Sunday instead.

Both series were played on October 13, but Fox showed both games, with the ALCS during the day and the NLCS at night.

After defeating the Boston Red Sox in the Division Series and the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, Cleveland clinched a World Series berth, for the first time since 1954.

The Red Sox would go on to win Game 7 and the ALCS and make their first World Series appearance since.

The following year, Boston and New York met again in the ALCS, with Boston becoming the first team in major league history as well as just the third team in American professional sports history to come back to win a playoff series after being down three games to none ; they then swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series to win their first championship since 1918 and thus end the Curse of the Bambino.

The Red Sox earned a Wild Card berth and their first playoff appearance since 1999, before losing the 2003 ALCS to the New York Yankees.

Chances were great, since no team had ever lost the ALCS after winning the first two games.

" In the 7-game ALCS against the Indians he hit three more home runs, had 14 hits ( tying the LCS record jointly held by Hideki Matsui and Albert Pujols since 2004 ), and scored 10 runs ( bettering Matsui's 2004 ALCS record ) while batting. 500 ( another new ALCS record, bettering Bob Boone's. 455 in 1986 ) with a. 576 OBP and a. 929 slugging percentage.

The Red Sox defeated the Anaheim Angels in the American League Division Series and the New York Yankees in the Championship Series ( ALCS ), to advance to their first World Series since.

They breezed through the 1969 season, winning 109 games ( until the most games won since the advent of divisional play ) and brushing aside the Minnesota Twins in three games in the ALCS to win their second pennant in four years.

Robertson earned his first career postseason victory on October 10, 2006, by pitching five shutout innings against the Oakland Athletics in game 1 which helped launch the Detroit Tigers into their ALCS sweep of the A's and their first pennant since 1984.

In his first playoff action since the 1985 World Series, he stole seven bases in the 1992 ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays, tying Lou Brock's record for steals in one post-season ( Brock stole seven bases each in the 1967 and 1968 World Series ).

) On April 16, 2004, the network aired a Friday night game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to cover those teams ' first head-to-head meeting since the memorable 2003 ALCS.

The winners of that round then advanced to the best-of-seven ALCS.

The two series winners move on to the best-of-seven ALCS.

The winners are listed ( 1 ) below in the section on " ALCS results ( 1969-present )", in the " Series MVP " column, ( 2 ) at League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award, and ( 3 ) on the MLB website.

However, the API it provides to applications is very similar to that on TPF, so applications written for TPF can run on ALCS with minimal modifications: typically fewer modifications than are required to move from one release of TPF to another.

And any enhancements made to MQ Series on z / OS by the MQ team are available without any additional work on the part of the ALCS development team.

Herzog later blamed Mayberry for the Royals ' failure to defeat the Yankees in the ALCS and demanded Mayberry's dismissal from the team, even though he also said he had " always loved the way John played ".

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

In the playoffs, Whitt played in all five games against the Oakland Athletics in the 1989 ALCS, batting. 125 with 1 HR and 3 RBI, as the Blue Jays lost the series.

He hit a rare home run in the first American League Championship Series game ever played in 1969, and after uncharacteristically hitting. 333 in the 1970 ALCS, his contributions led to the Orioles ' 1970 World Series victory, the team's second title in five years ; he caught a line drive to end a 4-3 victory in Game 1 with the tying run on first base, and had an assist to end Game 3.

The American League Championship Series ( ALCS ) was played between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees from October 8 to October 16, 2003.

In the ALCS against the Cleveland Indians, Kielty played in games 1 and 5 due to his past success against Cleveland starter C. C.

In the ALCS against the Minnesota Twins, Wooten started one game and played in two others, going 2-for-8 with one RBI.

Brunansky played three seasons for the Red Sox, and is best remembered by Boston fans for his diving catch of an Ozzie Guillén line drive in the ninth inning of the season ending game that preserved the Red Sox victory, sending them to the 1990 ALCS.

However, Jackson injured himself running the bases in Game 2 of the 1981 ALCS and missed the first two games of the World Series, both of which the Yankees won.

However, he did not fare as well pitching in Game 2 of the ALCS against Cleveland, surrendering nine hits — two of them home runs — and five earned runs in just 4 innings.

In Game 2 of the 1980 ALCS, Yankee third base coach Mike Ferraro waved Willie Randolph home on a double by Bob Watson with two outs in the top of the eighth inning and the Yankees down 3-2.

* The first postseason game won by the Rangers at Rangers Ballpark would come in Game 2 of the 2010 ALCS by a score of 7 – 2 over the Yankees, on October 16, 2010.

The following year, the Mariners defeated the Cleveland Indians 3 – 2 in the ALDS, but were again defeated by the Yankees in the ALCS, 4-1.

Beckett's 2 – 0 record and 1. 93 ERA against the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS earned him the 2007 ALCS MVP Award, and he started and won the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Colorado Rockies, pitching 7 innings, allowing 1 run on 6 hits, and striking out 9 batters.

In the 1985 ALCS against the Kansas City Royals, Whitt appeared in all seven games, hitting. 190 with 0 HR and 2 RBI as the Blue Jays lost the series.

In six ALCS and six World Series, he posted an 8 – 3 record with 90 strikeouts, and an ERA of 2. 61 and two shutouts in 17 games.

During the 2002 ALCS vs the Minnesota Twins, he went 2 – 0 with seven strikeouts in four and one-third innings.

In the ALCS against the New York Yankees, Ortiz had 2 home runs and 6 RBI as Boston lost in seven games.

The Blue Jays made it to the ALCS once again, and triumphed over the Chicago White Sox 4 games to 2, with Stewart winning ALCS MVP honors for the second time in his career.

Over the course of Game 2 of the 1992 ALCS, Kaat was stricken with a bad case of laryngitis.

With his team down 1-0 in both the ALCS and World Series, Boddicker pitched his team out of the hole by winning Game 2 of the ALCS 4-0 vs the Chicago White Sox ( complete game shutout ) and Game 2 of the World Series 4-1 vs the Philadelphia Phillies en route to a world championship.