| 2020 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 11–17 | |||||||||
| MVP | Randy Arozarena (Tampa Bay) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Lance Barksdale, Ted Barrett, Chris Conroy, Manny Gonzalez, Jeff Nelson (crew chief), Tim Timmons, and John Tumpane | |||||||||
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| Television | TBS | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, Jeff Francoeur, and Lauren Shehadi | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman and Chris Singleton | |||||||||
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The 2020 American League Championship Series was the best-of-seven series between the two American League Division Series winners, the defending American League Champion Houston Astros and the Tampa Bay Rays, for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2020 World Series. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all games for the series were held behind closed doors at a neutral site at Petco Park in San Diego. The games were televised nationally by TBS.
The Rays won the series and their second American League pennant after defeating the Astros, 4–3. In this series, the Astros became just the second team to force a Game 7 in MLB postseason history after trailing a best-of-seven series 3–0, after the 2004 Red Sox.[1]
The Rays would go on to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series in six games.
- ^ Schoenfield, David (October 17, 2020). "2020 MLB playoffs: Could the 2020 Astros join the 2004 Red Sox on Saturday? The anatomy of a 3-0 comeback". ESPN.com. Retrieved October 18, 2020.