2013 American League Championship Series
44th edition of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2013 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the Boston Red Sox against the Detroit Tigers[1] for the American League pennant and the right to play in the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Red Sox won the series 4 games to 2. The series was the 44th in league history, and was the first postseason meeting between the two teams.
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Dates | October 12–19 | |||||||||
MVP | Koji Uehara (Boston) | |||||||||
Umpires | Joe West (crew chief), Rob Drake, Ron Kulpa, Alfonso Márquez, Dale Scott, Dan Iassogna | |||||||||
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Television | Fox | |||||||||
TV announcers | Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, Ken Rosenthal, and Erin Andrews | |||||||||
Radio | ESPN | |||||||||
Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton | |||||||||
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Fox aired all games in the United States. This is, to date, the final League Championship series to air in its entirety on broadcast television; all of Fox's subsequent LCS series have been primarily broadcast on FS1.
Koji Uehara was the series MVP.
The Red Sox would go on to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, winning their eighth World Series championship.