2001 American League Division Series

2001 American League Division Series
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season
Seattle Mariners (3) Lou Piniella 116–46, .716, GA: 14
Cleveland Indians (2) Charlie Manuel 91–71, .562, GA: 6
DatesOctober 9–15
TelevisionFox (Games 1, 3, 5)
Fox Family (Games 2, 4)
TV announcersJosh Lewin, Rex Hudler
RadioESPN
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season
New York Yankees (3) Joe Torre 95–65, .594, GA: 13+12
Oakland Athletics (2) Art Howe 102–60, .630, GB: 14
DatesOctober 10–15
TelevisionFox
TV announcersJoe Buck, Tim McCarver (Games 1–2)
Thom Brennaman, Steve Lyons (Games 3–5)
RadioESPN
UmpiresSteve Rippley, Ted Barrett, Kerwin Danley, Jerry Layne, Mark Hirschbeck, Ron Kulpa (Mariners–Indians, Games 1–2, 5; Yankees–Athletics, Games 3–4)
Dana DeMuth, Jeff Nelson, Paul Schrieber, Rick Reed, Ed Rapuano, Greg Gibson (Yankees–Athletics, Games 1–2, 5; Mariners-Indians, Games 3–4)
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The 2001 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2001 American League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 9, and ended on Monday, October 15, 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 Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees went on to meet in the AL Championship Series (ALCS). The Yankees became the American League champion, and lost to the National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series.

This was the first time that in either league that both Division Series winners in their respective league advanced to the League Championship Series after overcoming a 2–1 series deficit in the same year.

  1. ^ The higher seed (in parentheses) had the home field advantage (Games 1, 2 and 5 at home), which was determined by playing record. Although the team with the best record was normally intended to play the wild card team, the Mariners played the Indians, rather than the wild card Athletics, because the Mariners and Athletics are in the same division.

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