2022 American League Division Series

2022 American League Division Series
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season Houston Astros (2) Dusty Baker 106–56 (.654), GA: 16 Seattle Mariners (0) Scott Servais 90–72 (.556), GB: 16
Dates	October 11–16
Television	TBS
TV announcers	Brian Anderson, Jeff Francoeur and Matt Winer
Radio	ESPN
Radio announcers	Dave O'Brien and Marly Rivera
Umpires	Cory Blaser, Pat Hoberg, James Hoye, Marvin Hudson (crew chief), Carlos Torres, Jansen Visconti
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season New York Yankees (1) Aaron Boone 99–63 (.611), GA: 7 Cleveland Guardians (0) Terry Francona 92–70 (.568), GA: 11
Dates	October 11–16
Television	TBS
TV announcers	Bob Costas, Ron Darling and Lauren Shehadi
Radio	ESPN
Radio announcers	Dan Shulman and Eduardo Pérez
Umpires	Jordan Baker, Dan Iassogna (crew chief), Will Little, Alan Porter, Jeremie Rehak, Mark Ripperger

The 2022 American League Division Series (ALDS) are the two best-of-five playoff series in Major League Baseball (MLB) to determine the participating teams of the 2022 American League Championship Series. These matchups are:

• (1) Houston Astros (AL West champions) vs. (5) Seattle Mariners
• (2) New York Yankees (AL East champions) vs. (3) Cleveland Guardians (AL Central champions)

Background

Further information: American League Division Series

Further information: 2022 MLB Postseason

The first two seeds are determined by regular season winning percentages. The final two teams are the winner of the American League Wild Card Series, played between the league's third to sixth seeded teams.

The Houston Astros (106–56) clinched the American League West on September 19 and the first seed in the American League on September 27, thus earning them a bye from the American League Wild Card Series and homefield advantage throughout the American League playoff. Houston is making their sixth straight postseason appearance and seventh in eight seasons. They will play the Seattle Mariners (90–72), who defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in the Wild Card Series to advance to the ALDS. The Mariners are making their first division series appearance since 2001. The Astros won 12 of the 19 games they played versus the Mariners in the regular season.

The New York Yankees (99–63) clinched the American League East and a bye from the American League Wild Card Series on September 27. This is New York's sixth straight postseason appearance and first as the AL East winner since 2019. They will play the third-seeded Cleveland Guardians (92–70), who clinched a division series berth by beating the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL Wild Card Series in two games. The Guardians are making their first division series appearance since 2018 and first under the Guardians moniker. New York won five of the six regular season games versus Cleveland.

Matchups

Houston Astros vs. Seattle Mariners

Houston leads the series, 2–0.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 11	Seattle Mariners – 7, Houston Astros – 8	Minute Maid Park	3:39	41,125
2	October 13	Seattle Mariners – 2, Houston Astros – 4	Minute Maid Park	3:15	41,774
3	October 15	Houston Astros vs. Seattle Mariners	T-Mobile Park	4:07 pm ET	-
4	October 16†	Houston Astros vs. Seattle Mariners	T-Mobile Park	3:07 pm ET	-
5	October 17†	Seattle Mariners vs. Houston Astros	Minute Maid Park	5:07 pm ET	-

New York Yankees vs. Cleveland Guardians

New York leads the series, 1–0.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 11	Cleveland Guardians – 1, New York Yankees – 4	Yankee Stadium	2:56	47,807
2	October 14‡	Cleveland Guardians vs. New York Yankees	Yankee Stadium	1:07 pm ET	-
3	October 15	New York Yankees vs. Cleveland Guardians	Progressive Field	7:37 pm ET	-
4	October 16†	New York Yankees vs. Cleveland Guardians	Progressive Field	7:07 pm ET	-
5	October 17†	Cleveland Guardians vs. New York Yankees	Yankee Stadium	7:37 pm ET	-

‡ Game 2 was postponed due to rain.

† If necessary

Houston vs. Seattle

This is the first postseason meeting between Seattle and Houston. During the regular season, the Astros finished first in the American League West, 16 games in front of the second place Mariners.

Game 1

Yordan Alvarez hit a three-run walk-off home run in Game 1.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 2:37 pm (CDT) at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas 73 °F (23 °C), roof closed

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Seattle	1	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	7	13	0
Houston	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	3	8	11	0
WP: Rafael Montero (1–0)   LP: Robbie Ray (0–1) Home runs: SEA: J. P. Crawford (1), Eugenio Suárez (1) HOU: Yuli Gurriel (1), Alex Bregman (1), Yordan Álvarez (1) Attendance: 41,125 Boxscore

Three days after Seattle made history with a comeback to end a series, they made history on the other side of it. Seattle led in all nine innings before losing the game on the final pitch of the game. Justin Verlander was tagged for six runs in four innings as the starter for Houston (in his first postseason game since 2019) while Logan Gilbert allowed three runs in five innings for Seattle.

In the ninth inning, Paul Sewald hit David Hensley with a pitch and allowed a Jeremy Pena single while only getting two outs. Robbie Ray, who had last pitched on Saturday, was brought in to face Yordan Alvarez. On the second pitch, Alvarez slammed the ball into deep right field for a walk-off home run. It was the first postseason walk-off win for the Astros since Game 5 of the 2020 American League Championship Series; the first walk-off postseason home run by a trailing team since Game 6 of the 1993 World Series, and fourth overall; the second walk-off postseason home run in history to be hit with a team down to their final out, with the other one being in the 1988 World Series; and the first ever by a team trailing by multiple runs with two outs. Alvarez went 3-for-5 and drove in five runs and made important contributions on defense—MLB.com analyst Mike Petriello argued this was the greatest performance in playoff history by a position player.

Game 2

Astros winning pitcher Héctor Neris (pictured with the Phillies) induced a ground out in the top of the 6th to get out of a bases loaded situation in Game 2.

Thursday, October 13, 2022 2:37 pm (CDT) at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas 73 °F (23 °C), roof closed

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Seattle	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0
Houston	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	4	6	1
WP: Héctor Neris (1–0)   LP: Luis Castillo (1–1)   Sv: Ryan Pressly (1) Home runs: SEA: None HOU: Kyle Tucker (1), Yordan Álvarez (2) Attendance: 41,774 Boxscore

As it happened two days earlier, Seattle tried to hold on to a lead late in the game before Yordan Alvarez came up to the plate to crush those plans. In the sixth inning, with two outs, Jeremy Pena lined a hit to get on base for Alvarez to bat. A couple of pitches later, Alvarez lined a towering shot into left field off of Luis Castillo to give the Astros a 3–2 lead. He became the second player to hit go-ahead home runs in the sixth inning or later of back-to-back postseason games, joining Troy Glaus in the 2002 American League Division Series, and the first to do it with his team trailing in both games.

Kyle Tucker had started the scoring with a home run for Houston in the bottom of the second, while the Mariners got their two runs in the fourth on a fielder's choice error scoring Eugenio Suarez and a Dylan Moore single scoring Mitch Haniger. In the eighth inning, Pena drew a walk to bring up Alvarez with two outs, which led to Seattle intentionally walking him. Alex Bregman was next, and he hit a line drive to right field that got Pena running all the way home. Seattle left thirteen runners on base, which included having the bases loaded in the sixth (with Héctor Neris inducing a ground out) and a double play lineout in the ninth. With the win, the Astros had won the first two games of an ALDS for the sixth straight year.

Game 3

Saturday, October 15, 2022 1:07pm (PDT) at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Houston	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Seattle	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Starting pitchers: HOU: Lance McCullers Jr. (0–0) SEA: George Kirby (0–0) Boxscore

New York vs. Cleveland

This is the sixth postseason meeting between the Yankees and Guardians, with both teams splitting their first four postseason meetings. The Guardians (then named Indians) previously won the 1997 American League Division Series 3–2 and the 2007 American League Division Series 3–1, while the Yankees previously won the 1998 American League Championship Series 4–2 and the 2017 American League Division Series 3–2. The fifth and latest meeting came during the 2020 American League Wild Card Series when New York swept Cleveland in two games. However, among the starting nine for Cleveland in 2020 for both games, just José Ramírez and Josh Naylor remain.

Game 1

File:Gerrit Cole ALDS 2022.jpg

Gerrit Cole pitching in Game 1, where he struck out eight batters and was the winning pitcher.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 7:37 pm (EDT) at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York 64 °F (18 °C), clear

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cleveland	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	2
New York	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	X	4	5	1
WP: Gerrit Cole (1–0)   LP: Cal Quantrill (0–1) Home runs: CLE: Steven Kwan (1) NYY: Harrison Bader (1), Anthony Rizzo (1) Attendance: 47,807 Boxscore

Gerrit Cole took the mound in his first postseason home game for the Yankees, who despite making the postseason in each of the last two seasons, had not played a home game in the playoffs since October 18, 2019. Steven Kwan homered off of Cole to right field to make it 1–0 Guardians in the third inning. The home run Cole gave up marked his seventh postseason appearance giving up a home run, tied for the most home runs given up in consecutive postseason appearances. In the bottom of the third, the Yankees struck back as Harrison Bader hit a solo shot to left to tie the game. In the fifth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a triple to right field and catcher Jose Trevino had a sacrifice fly scoring Kiner-Falefa to make it 2–1. Then in the bottom of the sixth, Aaron Judge walked and stole second base and went to third due to a throwing error by Austin Hedges attempting to pick Judge off. The next batter Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run home run scoring Judge from third to extend the Yankees lead to 4–1. After giving up the home run to Kwan, Cole bounced back as he pitched 6+1⁄3 innings, allowing four hits, one walk, hitting one batter, and striking out eight batters to get the win. Clay Holmes faced the final two batters in the ninth and closed out the 4–1 victory. With the win, this marked the sixth straight postseason victory over the Guardians starting from the Yankees' 2–0 comeback in the 2017 ALDS.

Game 2

Friday, October 14, 2022 1:07 pm (EDT) at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York 62 °F (17 °C), Mostly sunny

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cleveland	0	0	0	1	1	-	-	-	-	2	6	0
New York	2	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Starting pitchers: CLE: Shane Bieber (0–0) NYY: Nestor Cortés Jr. (0–0) Home runs: CLE: Amed Rosario (1) NYY: Giancarlo Stanton (1) Boxscore

Game 2 was originally scheduled to be played on October 13 at 7:37 pm (EDT), but was postponed to October 14 at 1:07 pm (EDT) due to the forecast of sustained inclement weather.

Game 3

Saturday, October 15, 2022 7:37pm (EDT) at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Cleveland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Starting pitchers: NYY: Luis Severino (0–0) CLE: Triston McKenzie (0–0) Boxscore

See also

• 2022 National League Division Series

External links

• Major League Baseball postseason schedule