2002 ALDS
| 2002 American League Division Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 1 – 5 | ||||||||||||
| Television |
Fox (Games 1–2, 4) ABC Family (Game 3) |
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| TV announcers |
Joe Buck, Tim McCarver (Games 1–2) Jon Miller, Joe Morgan (Game 3) Thom Brennaman, Tim McCarver (Game 4) |
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| Radio |
ESPN (National) KLAC (ANA) |
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| Radio announcers |
Dan Shulman, Dave Campbell (ESPN Radio) Rory Markas, Terry Smith (KLAC) |
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| Dates | October 1 – 6 | ||||||||||||
| Television | ABC Family | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers |
Jon Miller, Joe Morgan (Games 1–2, 5) Dave O'Brien, Tony Gwynn, Rick Sutcliffe (Games 3–4) |
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| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | John Rooney, Buck Martinez | ||||||||||||
| Umpires |
Jerry Crawford, Doug Eddings, Jim Joyce, Mike Winters, Tim McClelland, Fieldin Culbreth (Yankees–Angels, Games 1–2; Athletics–Twins, Games 3–4) Gerry Davis, Chuck Meriwether, Alfonso Márquez, Derryl Cousins, Joe West, Laz Díaz (Athletics–Twins, Games 1–2, 5; Yankees–Angels, Games 3–4) |
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Anaheim Angels (3) | Mike Scioscia | 99–63, .611, GB: 4 | |
| New York Yankees (1) | Joe Torre | 103–58, .640, GA: 10½ |
| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Minnesota Twins (3) | Ron Gardenhire | 94–67, .584, GA: 13½ | |
| Oakland Athletics (2) | Art Howe | 103–59, .636, GA: 4 |
The 2002 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2002 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Sunday, October 6, 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 Yankees were not required to make up one remaining game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, potentially allowing the Athletics to tie them for the best record, because they had a 5–4 advantage over Oakland in head-to-head play and thus would win the tiebreaker for home field advantage through the playoffs.
The Division Series saw the wild card-qualifying Angels beat the defending league champion Yankees, and the Twins defeat the Athletics in a startling upset. The Angels and Twins went on to meet in the AL Championship Series (ALCS). The Angels became the American League champion, and defeated the National League champion San Francisco Giants in the 2002 World Series.
Anaheim won the series, 3–1.
Minnesota won the series, 3–2.
Yankee Stadium (I) in Bronx, New York
The Yankees struck first in Game 1 on Derek Jeter's home run in the first off Jarrod Washburn, but in the top of the third, Darin Erstad singled off Roger Clemens. Alfonso Soriano then mishandled Jorge Posada's throw to second on Erstad's stolen base attempt, letting Erstad go to third. Tim Salmon then singled to tie the game. Jason Giambi's two-run home run in the fourth after Jeter drew a leadoff walk put the Yankees up 3–1, but the Angels loaded the bases in the fifth with two outs on two walks and a single before Garret Anderson tied the game with a double to left. The Yankees regained the lead in the bottom of the inning on Rondell White's home run, but the Angels again tied the score on Troy Glaus's home run leading off the sixth. Glaus's second home run of the game in the eighth off Ramiro Mendoza put the Angels up 5–4, but in the bottom of the inning, reliever Ben Weber walked two with two outs, Anaheim manager Mike Scioscia brought in Scott Schoeneweis to pitch to Jason Giambi, who tied the game with an RBI single. Scioscia then brought in Brendan Donnelly to face Bernie Williams who hit a three-run homer to put the Yankees up 8–5. Mariano Rivera pitched a scoreless top of the ninth for the save and give the Yankees a 1–0 series lead.
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