| 2016 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 14–19 | |||||||||
| MVP | Andrew Miller (Cleveland) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Laz Díaz (Games 1-2), Mike Everitt, Brian Gorman (crew chief), Jeff Nelson, Jim Reynolds, Mark Wegner (Games 3-5) and Jim Wolf | |||||||||
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| Television | United States: TBS (English) CNN en Español (Spanish) Canada: Sportsnet (English) RDS (French) | |||||||||
| 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) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN (English) ESPN Deportes (Spanish) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton (English) Cristián Moreno and Renato Bermúdez (Spanish) | |||||||||
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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. The Indians had home-field advantage for the series because the Blue Jays qualified as 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.[1][2]
The Indians would go on to lose to the Chicago Cubs in the World Series in seven games, after squandering a 3–1 series lead.
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