American League Division Series 2012

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American League Division Series 2012
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Team (wins) Regular season
Detroit Tigers (3) 88−74 0.543
Oakland Athletics (2) 94−68 0.580
Date: October 6-11
Team (wins) Regular season
New York Yankees (3) 95−67 0.586
Baltimore Orioles (2) 93−69 0.574
Date: October 7-12
ALWC: Baltimore Orioles 5 - Texas Rangers 1
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ALCS 2012 World Series 2012
American League Division Series 2012 venues. Games: Blue pog.svgALDS 1, Green pog.svgALDS 2.

The American League Division Series 2012 (ALDS) in baseball took place between October 6 and October 12, 2012 and was part of the postseason of the 2012 MLB season . It was used to determine which two teams will compete in the American League Championship Series 2012 . There were two best-of-five series in which the winners of the three divisions of the American League and the winners of the wildcard game participated. The series was no longer in mode 2-2-1, i.e. the better seeded team played in games 1, 2 and 5 at home, but in mode 2-3. So the better team had home rights in games 3, 4 and 5.

The pairings were:

Way into the Division Series and further whereabouts

The 2012 postseason developed as follows.


  Wild Card Games League Division Series League Championship Series World Series
                                     
2  Oakland Athletics 2
3  Detroit Tigers 3    
3  Detroit Tigers 4th
American League
  1  New York Yankees 0    
  1  New York Yankees 3
    WC2  Baltimore Orioles 2
WC1  Texas Rangers 0
WC2  Baltimore Orioles 1   AL  Detroit Tigers 0
  NL  San Francisco Giants 4th
2  Cincinnati Reds 2
3  San Francisco Giants 3    
3  San Francisco Giants 4th
National League
  WC2  St. Louis Cardinals 3
  1  Washington Nationals 2
    WC2  St. Louis Cardinals 3
WC1  Atlanta Braves 0
WC2  St. Louis Cardinals 1

Submit Results
Wild Card Games: one game; ALDS, NLDS (Division Series): Best-of Five; ALCS, NLCS (Championship Series), World Series: Best-of-Seven


Results overview

Detroit Tigers versus Oakland Athletics

game date Result Total status place Playtime spectator
Game 1 October 6, 2012 Oakland Athletics - 1 @ Detroit Tigers - 3 0-1 Comerica Park 2:56 43,323
Game 2 October 7, 2012 Oakland Athletics - 4 @ Detroit Tigers - 5th 0-2 Comerica Park 3:28 40,684
Game 3 October 9, 2012 Detroit Tigers - 0 @ Oakland Athletics - 2 2−1 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 2:33 37,090
Game 4 October 10, 2012 Detroit Tigers - 3 @ Oakland Athletics - 4th 2−2 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 3:21 36,385
Game 5 October 11, 2012 Detroit Tigers - 6 @ Oakland Athletics - 0 3−2 Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum 2:56 36,393
Detroit Tigers win 3-2

Baltimore Orioles versus New York Yankees

game date Result Total status place Playtime spectator
Game 1 October 7, 2012 New York Yankees - 7 @ Baltimore Orioles - 2 1−0 Oriole Park at Camden Yards 3:31 47,841
Game 2 October 8, 2012 New York Yankees - 2 @ Baltimore Orioles - 3 1−1 Oriole Park at Camden Yards 3:11 48.187
Game 3 October 10, 2012 Baltimore Orioles - 2 @ New York Yankees - 3 1−2 Yankee Stadium 3:31 50,491
Game 4 October 11, 2012 Baltimore Orioles - 2 @ New York Yankees - 1 2−2 Yankee Stadium 4:31 49,307
Game 5 October 12, 2012 Baltimore Orioles - 1 @ New York Yankees - 3 2−3 Yankee Stadium 2:52 47,081
New York Yankees win 2-3

Detroit Tigers versus Oakland Athletics

Game 1, October 6th

6:00 PM EDT, Comerica Park in Detroit , Michigan

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Oakland Athletics 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4th 1
Detroit Tigers 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 3 7th 0

Starting Pitchers : OAK - Jarrod Parker DET - Justin Verlander   WP : Justin Verlander (1-0 1.29)   LP : Jarrod Parker (0-1 2.84)   SV : José Valverde (1)  

HRs :   OAK - Coco Crisp (1) DET - Alex Avila (1)

Game 2, October 7th

12:00 EDT, Comerica Park in Detroit , Michigan

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Oakland Athletics 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 4th 9 1
Detroit Tigers 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 11 0

Starting Pitchers : OAK - Tommy Milone DET - Doug Fister   WP : Al Alburquerque (1-0 0.00)   LP : Grant Balfour (0-1 0.00)  

HRs :   OAK - Josh Reddick (1)

Game 3, October 9th

9:00 p.m. EDT, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum , Oakland , California

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Detroit Tigers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 0
Oakland Athletics 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 X 2 5 0

Starting Pitchers : DET - Aníbal Sánchez   OAK - Brett Anderson   WP : Brett Anderson (1-0 0.00)   LP : Aníbal Sánchez (0-1 2.84)   SV : Grant Balfour (1)  

HRs :   OAK - Seth Smith (1)

Game 4, October 10th

9:30 p.m. EDT, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum , Oakland , California

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Detroit Tigers 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 10 1
Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 4th 8th 0

Starting Pitchers : DET - Max Scherzer OAK - AJ Griffin   WP : Ryan Cook (1-0 2.70)   LP : José Valverde (0-1 16.20)  

HRs :   DET - Prince Fielder (1)

Game 5, October 11th

8:30 p.m. EDT, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum , Oakland , California

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Detroit Tigers 0 0 2 0 0 0 4th 0 0 6th 9 0
Oakland Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th 1

Starting Pitchers : DET - Justin Verlander   OAK - Jarrod Parker   WP : Justin Verlander (2-0 0.56)   LP : Jarrod Parker (0-2 4.26)  

summary of results

ALDS 2012 (3-2): Detroit Tigers defeat Oakland Athletics

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Detroit Tigers 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 3 11 30th 3
Oakland Athletics 1 0 5 1 1 0 6th 2 1 17th 41 1

Total viewers : 193 875   Average number of audience : 38775

Baltimore Orioles versus New York Yankees

Game 1, October 7th

6:00 PM EDT, Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore , Maryland

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
New York Yankees 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 7th 10 1
Baltimore Orioles 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 8th 1

Starting Pitchers : NYY - CC Sabathia   BAL - Jason Hammel   WP : CC Sabathia (1-0 2.08)   LP : Jim Johnson (0-1 108.0)  

HRs :   NYY - Russell Martin (1)

Game 2, October 8th

8:00 p.m. EDT, Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore , Maryland

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
New York Yankees 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 9 2
Baltimore Orioles 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 X 3 7th 2

Starting Pitchers : NYY - Andy Pettitte   BAL - Wei-Yin Chen   WP : Wei-Yin Chen (1-0 1.42)   LP : Andy Pettitte (0-1 3.86)   SV : Jim Johnson (1)  

Game 3, October 10th

7:30 p.m. EDT, Yankee Stadium , New York City

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 R. H E.
Baltimore Orioles 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7th 0
New York Yankees 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 7th 0

Starting Pitchers : BAL - Miguel González NYY - Hiroki Kuroda   WP : David Robertson (1-0 0.00)   LP : Brian Matusz (0-1 2.70)  

HRs :   BAL - Ryan Flaherty (1), Manny Machado (1) NYY - Raúl Ibañez 2 (2)

Game 4, October 11th

7:30 p.m. EDT, Yankee Stadium , New York City

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 R. H E.
Baltimore Orioles 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8th 1
New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7th 0

WP : Pedro Strop (1-0 0.00)   LP : David Phelps (0-1 6.75)   SV : Jim Johnson (2)  

HRs :   BAL - Nate McLouth (1)

Game 5, October 12th

5:00 p.m. EDT, Yankee Stadium , New York City

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 R. H E.
Baltimore Orioles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4th 0
New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 X 3 5 0

Starting Pitchers : BAL - Jason Hammel NYY - CC Sabathia    WP : CC Sabathia (2-0 1.53)   LP : Jason Hammel (0-1 3.18)  

HRs :   NYY - Curtis Granderson (1)

summary of results

ALDS 2012 (3−2): New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orioles

team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 R. H E.
Baltimore Orioles 0 0 5 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 34 4th
New York Yankees 2 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 6th 0 0 1 0 16 38 3

Total viewers : 242 907   Average number of audience : 48581

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