2017 American League Wild Card Game
The 2017 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 postseason that was played between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams, the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. The game was televised nationally by ESPN. The game took place on October 3 at Yankee Stadium, with the Yankees winning 8–4, thus eliminating the Twins from the postseason and advancing the Yankees to the AL Division Series (ALDS), in which they defeated the Cleveland Indians, 3–2.
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| Date | October 3, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Yankee Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | The Bronx, New York | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Umpires | HP: Alfonso Márquez 1B: Mike Winters (crew chief) 2B: Eric Cooper 3B: Lance Barksdale LF: Tripp Gibson RF: John Tumpane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 49,280 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceremonial first pitch | Chasen Shreve | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Dan Shulman, Jessica Mendoza, Aaron Boone, and Buster Olney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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