2016 American League Wild Card Game
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Date | October 4, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | TBS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TV announcers | Ernie Johnson Jr., Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., and Sam Ryan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radio | Canada: Sportsnet United States: ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2016 American League Wild Card Game was a
The Blue Jays beat the Orioles, 5–2, in extra innings. This was the Orioles' last postseason appearance until 2023.
Background
This was Toronto's first appearance in the
The game was played at 8:00 pm EDT on October 4, 2016 at
The retractable dome at Rogers Centre was open for the game, the first time this was done for a postseason contest at the venue.[5]
This was the second Wild Card Game played between teams with identical regular season records, and the second time for the Baltimore Orioles. Under the 1995-2011 playoff format, the teams would have played a one-game playoff to determine the Wild Card team.
Game results
Line score
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||
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Baltimore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
Toronto | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
WP: Francisco Liriano (1–0) LP: Ubaldo Jiménez (0–1) Home runs: BAL: Mark Trumbo (1) TOR: José Bautista (1), Edwin Encarnación (1) Attendance: 49,934 Boxscore |
Toronto and Baltimore turned to their Opening Day starters, as Marcus Stroman and Chris Tillman took the mound for their respective teams.
The Blue Jays scored first with a home run by José Bautista leading off the second inning.[6] The Orioles responded two innings later with a go-ahead two-run homer from Mark Trumbo.[7] The Blue Jays recorded three hits in the fifth on their way to scoring the tying run.[8]
The Toronto Blue Jays won the game 5–2 in the 11th inning when
Encarnación became only the fourth player to end a winner-take-all postseason game (that is, a game in which one team or the other was sure to be eliminated) with a walk-off home run, joining Bill Mazeroski (1960 World Series), Chris Chambliss (1976 ALCS) and Aaron Boone (2003 ALCS).[11]
References
- ^ "2016 World Game and Division Series Umpires". Close Call Sports & Umpire Ejection Fantasy League. October 4, 2016.
- ^ "Robbie". Hartford Courant. October 5, 2016. pp. C4.
- ^ Newman, Mark (August 24, 2016). "To the races: MLB postseason schedule announced". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Archived from the original on September 17, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- ^ Normandin, Marc (August 23, 2016). "2016 MLB playoff schedule released". SBNation.com. SB Nation. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
- Rogers Media.
- Star Media Group. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- Gannett Company. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Fidlin, Kevin (October 5, 2016). "Edwin Encarnacion belts Blue Jays past Orioles in extra innings". Toronto Sun. Toronto: Postmedia Network. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Harrison, Ian (October 5, 2016). "Encarnacion's 11th-inning HR lifts Jays over O's, into ALDS". Associated Press. Toronto: AP News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 10, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Crasnick, Jerry (October 5, 2016). "Where was Zach Britton in the 11th inning?". ESPN.com. Toronto: ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ Schoenfield, David (October 5, 2016). "What we learned: Buck Showalter's epic failure costs Orioles". ESPN.com. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
External links
- 2016 Major League Baseball season schedule
- Schedule for 2016 Postseason Archived September 17, 2017, at the Wayback Machine