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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, andLauren Shehadi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi andEduardo Pérez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The2018 American League Wild Card Game was aplay-in game duringMajor League Baseball's (MLB)2018 postseason contested between theAmerican League's (AL) twowild card teams, theNew York Yankees and theOakland Athletics.[1] The game took place atYankee Stadium on October 3, starting at 8:08 pmEDT.[2] The Yankees won, 7–2, and advanced to face theBoston Red Sox in theAmerican League Division Series.[3]
This game started a part of the postseason whereTBS broadcast postseason games because of theFox's contract holdout with Optimum. Said holdout would continue until the2018 World Series.
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 twoWild Card Games, a loss in2015 and a win in2017. 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 the2001 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 in2014.
This was the fourth time the Yankees and A's met in postseason play—the Yankees had won the three prior meetings: the1981 ALCS (3–0),2000 ALDS (3–2), and2001 ALDS (3–2).[6]
| 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 thestarting pitcher for the Yankees, while the Athletics usedLiam Hendriks as anopener.[7] The Yankees scored two runs in the first inning, asAaron Judge hit a two-run homer off of Hendriks. The Yankees added four runs in the sixth, on back-to-back doubles by Judge andAaron Hicks, followed by a walk toGiancarlo Stanton and a triple byLuke Voit. In the eighth inning,Khris Davis hit a two-run home run for Oakland and Stanton hit a home run for New York.