American League Wild Card Recap

In the first five years of the Wild Card round(2020, 2022 - Present), we had just 4 of the 20 series go to a third game. This year, we were blessed with three! In today’s episode we’ll go over the highlights from the American League side, then look ahead to the AL Division Series games that start this weekend. This round had dominant outings from the game’s best pitchers, and clutch performances by rising stars. October baseball has it all!

Audio clips from MLB.tv

Detroit Tigers (87-75) @ Cleveland Guardians (88-74)

GM 1: Gavin Williams (12-5 3.06 ERA 167 IP) vs. Tarik Skubal (13-6 2.21 ERA 195 IP)

GM 2: Tanner Bibee (12-11 4.24 ERA 182 IP) vs. Casey Mize (14-6 3.87 ERA 149 IP)

GM 3: Slade Cecconi (7-7 4.30 ERA 132 IP) vs. Jack Flaherty (8-15 4.64 ERA 161 IP)

Cleveland Radio WTAM - Tom Hamilton and Jim Rosenhaus

Detroit Radio 97.1 - Dan Dickerson and Bobby Scales

Boston Red Sox (89-73) @ New York Yankees (94-68)

GM 1: Max Fried (19-5 2.86 ERA 195 IP) vs. Garrett Crochet (18-5 2.59 ERA 205 IP)

GM 2: Carlos Rodón (18-9 3.09 ERA 195 IP) vs. Brayan Bello (11-9 3.35 ERA 166 IP)

GM 3: Cam Schlittler (4-3 2.96 ERA 73 IP) vs. Connelly Early (1-2 2.33 ERA 19 IP)

New York Radio WFAN - Dave Sims, and Suzyn Waldman

Boston Radio WEEI - Will Flemming, Will Middlebrooks, Lenny Dinardo, and Lou Merloni

As always, thank you to Baseball Reference and SABR for statistics, box scores, background information, and much, much more.

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