| 1982 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 5–10 | |||||||||
| MVP | Fred Lynn (California) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Larry Barnett Bill Kunkel Rich Garcia Steve Palermo Don Denkinger (crew chief) Al Clark | |||||||||
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| Television | ABC KTLA (Angels' broadcast) WVTV (Brewers' broadcast) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | ABC: Keith Jackson, Earl Weaver, and Jim Palmer KTLA: Ron Fairly, Bob Starr and Joe Buttitta WVTV: Mike Hegan and Steve Shannon | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS KMPC (Angels' broadcast) WISN (Brewers' broadcast) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | CBS: Ernie Harwell and Denny Matthews KMPC: Ron Fairly, Bob Starr and Joe Buttitta WISN: Bob Uecker and Dwayne Mosely | |||||||||
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The 1982 American League Championship Series was played between the Milwaukee Brewers and the California Angels from October 5 to 10, 1982. Milwaukee won the series three games to two to advance to the franchise's first World Series, where they would lose to the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three. The 1982 ALCS was marked by a dramatic comeback by the Brewers, who lost the first two games of the series and were trailing late in the final game, and the series was the first League Championship Series where the home team won every game.[1]
The series was noteworthy as being the first to feature a matchup between two "expansion" teams (i.e., franchises not included among the 16 operating in the major leagues for most of the first half of the 20th century), for featuring two teams that had never before won a pennant, and for being the first time a team came from a 2–0 deficit to win the series.
This was the first ALCS not to feature the Athletics, Orioles, or Yankees.