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| 2007 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 12–21 | |||||||||
| MVP | Josh Beckett (Boston) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Randy Marsh Kerwin Danley Brian Gorman Paul Emmel Gary Cederstrom Dana DeMuth[1] | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox (United States) MLB International (International) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, and Ken Rosenthal (Fox) Dave O'Brien and Rick Sutcliffe (MLB International) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Miller and Joe Morgan | |||||||||
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The 2007 American League Championship Series (ALCS), the second round of the 2007 American League playoffs, began on October 12 and ended on October 21. It was a best-of-seven series, with the East Division champion Boston Red Sox facing the Central Division champion Cleveland Indians. The Red Sox have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs by winning the season series against Cleveland, five games to two, although both teams finished with 96–66 records. The Red Sox came back from a 3–1 deficit to defeat the Indians 4–3, outscoring them 30–5 over the final three games of the Series.
The Red Sox had swept the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in three games in the AL Division Series, while the Indians had defeated the New York Yankees three games to one. The series marks the fourth postseason meeting of the two teams, following the 1995 and 1998 AL Division Series, both of which were won by the Indians, and the 1999 ALDS, won by the Red Sox (in a similar fashion to this series). It was the eighth ALCS appearance for Boston, and the fourth for Cleveland.
The Red Sox would go on to sweep the Colorado Rockies in the World Series, winning their seventh World Series championship.
The series was broadcast on Fox television.
- ^ "MLB names League Championship Series umpires" (JSP). Major League Baseball. October 10, 2007. Retrieved October 21, 2007.
Randy Marsh, a 26-year Major League Umpire, will be the crew chief when the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox meet in the 2007 American League Championship Series. The Kentucky native has been assigned to the eighteenth postseason series of his career, including his eighth LCS. Marsh's crew will feature Kerwin Danley, Brian Gorman, Paul Emmel, Gary Cederstrom and regular season crew chief Dana DeMuth.