1987 American League Championship Series
| 1987 American League Championship Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 7–12 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Gary Gaetti (Minnesota) | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Joe Brinkman, Durwood Merrill, Drew Coble, Al Clark, Mike Reilly, Jim McKean | ||||||||||||
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| Television | NBC | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Bob Costas and Tony Kubek | ||||||||||||
| Radio | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Brent Musburger and Bill White | ||||||||||||
| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Minnesota Twins (4) | Tom Kelly | 85–77, .525, GA: 2 | |
| Detroit Tigers (1) | Sparky Anderson | 98–64, .605, GA: 2 |
The 1987 American League Championship Series pitted the Minnesota Twins, the American League West champions, against the Detroit Tigers, the American League East champions. Minnesota won the Series four games to one, en route to winning the 1987 World Series four games to three over the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Detroit Tigers finished the 1987 regular season with the best record in all of baseball, at 98–64 (.605). They won the American League East by two games in thrilling fashion over the Toronto Blue Jays, overcoming a 3 1⁄2-game deficit with a week to go, and clinching the division on the last day of the season with a 1–0 win over the Jays. The Twins, by contrast, finished with the worst record of any of the four teams that made the playoffs, at 85–77 (.525). Although they held off the Kansas City Royals by two games to take the American League West, they were clearly seen as the underdogs against the power of the Tigers in the 1987 ALCS.
The Twins would go on to win the first of two World's Championships in the next four years. As for Detroit, after their elimination in this series, the Tigers would not see the playoffs again for 19 years, when they won the American League Pennant in 2006.
Minnesota won the series, 4–1.
Wednesday, October 7, 1987, at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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