2016 American League Championship Series

2016 American League Championship Series
Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season Cleveland Indians (4) Terry Francona 94–67, .584, GA: 8 Toronto Blue Jays (1) John Gibbons 89–73, .549, GB: 4
Dates	October 14–19
MVP	Andrew Miller (Cleveland)
Umpires	Laz Díaz (Games 1-2), Mike Everitt, Brian Gorman (crew chief), Jeff Nelson, Jim Reynolds, Mark Wegner (Games 3-5) and Jim Wolf.
Broadcast
Television	United States: TBS (English) CNN en Español (Spanish) Canada: Sportsnet (English) RDS (French)
TV announcers	Ernie Johnson Jr., Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., and Sam Ryan (English) Pete Manzano and Fernando Palacios (Spanish) Alain Usereau and Marc Griffin (French)
Radio	ESPN (English) ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
Radio announcers	Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton (English) Cristián Moreno and Renato Bermúdez (Spanish)
ALDS	Toronto Blue Jays over Texas Rangers (3–0) Cleveland Indians over Boston Red Sox (3–0)
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The 2016 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the Toronto Blue Jays against the Cleveland Indians for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2016 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. The Indians had home-field advantage for the series because the Blue Jays qualified as a wild-card team. The Indians defeated the Blue Jays four games to one.

The series was the 47th in league history. TBS televised all games in the United States, with Sportsnet, a property of Toronto Blue Jays owner Rogers Communications, airing all games in Canada using the TBS feed.^[1][2]

The Indians would go on to lose to the Chicago Cubs in the World Series in seven games, after squandering a 3–1 series lead.