Play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 postseason
2017 American League Wild Card Game
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Minnesota Twins
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Date
October 3, 2017
Venue
Yankee Stadium
City
The Bronx, New York
Managers
Paul Molitor (Minnesota Twins)
Joe Girardi (New York Yankees)
Umpires
HP: Alfonso Márquez 1B: Mike Winters (crew chief) 2B: Eric Cooper 3B: Lance Barksdale LF: Tripp Gibson RF: John Tumpane[1]
Attendance
49,280
Ceremonial first pitch
Chasen Shreve[2][a]
Television
ESPN
TV announcers
Dan Shulman, Jessica Mendoza, Aaron Boone, and Buster Olney
Radio
ESPN
Radio announcers
Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton
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2018 →
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.
^"MLB playoffs: Umpires for wild-card games, AL and NL Division Series announced". sports.yahoo.com. Yahoo Sports. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
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