2000 American League Division Series
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| Dates | October 3 – 6 | ||||||||||||
| Television | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Chris Berman, Rick Sutcliffe | ||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Ernie Harwell, Dave Campbell | ||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 3 – 8 | ||||||||||||
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NBC (Games 1, 3–4)/Pax (Game 1) Fox (Games 2, 5) |
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| TV announcers |
Skip Caray, Joe Morgan (Games 1, 3–4) Joe Buck, Tim McCarver (Game 2) Thom Brennaman, Bob Brenly (Game 5) |
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| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman, Buck Martinez | ||||||||||||
| Umpires |
Charlie Reliford, Kerwin Danley, Mike Reilly, Mike Winters, Rick Reed, Doug Eddings (Mariners–White Sox, Games 1–2; Yankees–Athletics, Games 3–5) Tim Welke, Chuck Meriwether, Tim McClelland, Paul Schrieber, Al Clark, Jeff Nelson (Yankees–Athletics, Games 1–2; Mariners–White Sox, Game 3) |
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Seattle Mariners (3) | Lou Piniella | 91–71, .562, GB: ½ | |
| Chicago White Sox (0) | Jerry Manuel | 95–67, .586, GA: 5 |
| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| New York Yankees (3) | Joe Torre | 87–74, .540, GA: 2½ | |
| Oakland Athletics (2) | Art Howe | 91–70, .565, GA: ½ |
The 2000 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2000 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Sunday, October 8, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
The higher seed (in parentheses) had the home field advantage (Games 1, 2 and 5 at home), which was determined by playing record. The team with the best record was assigned to play the wild card team, unless they were in the same division. The Athletics were not required to make up their one remaining game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in order to win the Western Division title over Seattle; as both teams had qualified for the postseason, Oakland was awarded the division title in the event of a tie on the basis of a 9–4 advantage in head-to-head play.
The Mariners and the defending World Series champion Yankees went on to meet in the AL Championship Series for the right to advance to the 2000 World Series against the National League champion New York Mets.
Seattle won the series, 3–0.
New York won the series, 3–2.
The Seattle Mariners returned to the postseason to avenge two postseason failures in the 1990s. The Chicago White Sox returned to the postseason for the first time since 1993. This series ended with a game-winning bunt by Carlos Guillén in Game 3.
In Game 1, Freddy García faced Jim Parque. Parque struggled early and often, allowing a single to Rickey Henderson and hitting Mike Cameron with a pitch to open the game. An RBI single by Alex Rodriguez that moved Cameron to third and a forceout by John Olerud put the Mariners up 2–0. Then Joe Oliver's leadoff homer made it 3–0 in the second. However, in the bottom half, Paul Konerko drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a groundout and scored on a triple by Chris Singleton, who then scored on a wild pitch by Garcia to make it a one-run game. In the bottom of the third, the Mariners' lead evaporated when Ray Durham homered to tie it, then Jose Valentin walked before Magglio Ordóñez tripled in the go-ahead run. The game remained 4–3 until the seventh when Mike Cameron hit the bases-loaded game-tying single off of Bob Howry. That hit almost gave the Mariners the lead, but David Bell was out at home trying to score the go-ahead run. The game moved to extra innings. In the top of the tenth, Cameron hit a leadoff single off of Keith Foulke, then two outs later, back-to-back homers by Edgar Martínez and John Olerud gave the Mariners a 7–4 lead. That lead would stand as Kazuhiro Sasaki got the save.
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