2017 American League Wild Card Game

2017 American League Wild Card Game
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Minnesota Twins 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 1
New York Yankees 3 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 x 8 9 0
DateOctober 3, 2017
VenueYankee Stadium
CityThe Bronx, New York
Managers
UmpiresHP: Alfonso Márquez
1B: Mike Winters (crew chief)
2B: Eric Cooper
3B: Lance Barksdale
LF: Tripp Gibson
RF: John Tumpane[1]
Attendance49,280
Ceremonial first pitchChasen Shreve[2][a]
TelevisionESPN
TV announcersDan Shulman, Jessica Mendoza, Aaron Boone, and Buster Olney
RadioESPN
Radio announcersJon Sciambi and Chris Singleton

The 2017 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 postseason that was played between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams, the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. The game was televised nationally by ESPN. The game took place on October 3 at Yankee Stadium, with the Yankees winning 8–4, thus eliminating the Twins from the postseason and advancing the Yankees to the AL Division Series (ALDS), in which they defeated the Cleveland Indians, 3–2.

  1. ^ "MLB playoffs: Umpires for wild-card games, AL and NL Division Series announced". sports.yahoo.com. Yahoo Sports. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  2. ^ "National Anthem". Rapid City Journal. October 4, 2017. pp. C4.


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