2016 American League Championship Series | |||||||||||||
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Dates | October 14–19 | ||||||||||||
MVP | Andrew Miller (Cleveland) | ||||||||||||
Umpires | Laz Díaz, Mike Everitt, Brian Gorman, Jeff Nelson, Jim Reynolds, Mark Wegner and Jim Wolf. | ||||||||||||
ALDS |
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Broadcast | |||||||||||||
Television |
United States: TBS (English) CNN en Español (Spanish) Canada: Sportsnet (English) RDS (French) |
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TV announcers |
Ernie Johnson Jr., Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., and Sam Ryan (English) Pete Manzano and Fernando Palacios (Spanish) Alain Usereau and Marc Griffin (French) |
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Radio |
ESPN (English) ESPN Deportes (Spanish) |
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Radio announcers |
Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton (English) Cristián Moreno and Renato Bermúdez (Spanish) |
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Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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Cleveland Indians (4) | Terry Francona | 94–67, .584, 8 GA | |
Toronto Blue Jays (1) | John Gibbons | 89–73, .549, 4 GB |
The 2016 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the Toronto Blue Jays against the Cleveland Indians for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2016 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. As division champions, the Indians had home-field advantage for the series over the Blue Jays, who were a wild-card team. The Indians defeated the Blue Jays four games to one.
The series was the 47th in league history. TBS televised all games in the United States, with Sportsnet, a property of Toronto Blue Jays owner Rogers Communications, airing all games in Canada using the TBS feed.
This was Toronto's second consecutive ALCS appearance and seventh overall. The team lost the 2015 American League Championship Series to the eventual World Series champion Kansas City Royals. The Blue Jays had previously made consecutive ALCS appearances in 1991, 1992 and 1993, losing in the former but winning both the 1992 and 1993 World Series.