1982 American League Championship Series
| 1982 American League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 5–10 | |||||||||
| MVP | Fred Lynn (California) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Larry Barnett Bill Kunkel Rich Garcia Steve Palermo Don Denkinger (crew chief) Al Clark | |||||||||
| Broadcast | ||||||||||
| Television | ABC KTLA (CAL) WVTV (MIL) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | ABC: Keith Jackson, Earl Weaver, and Jim Palmer KTLA: Ron Fairly, Bob Starr and Joe Buttitta WVTV: Mike Hegan and Steve Shannon | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS KMPC (CAL) WISN (MIL) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | CBS: Ernie Harwell and Denny Matthews KMPC: Ron Fairly, Bob Starr and Joe Buttitta WISN: Bob Uecker and Dwayne Mosely | |||||||||
The 1982 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1982 postseason played between the Milwaukee Brewers and the California Angels from October 5 to 10, 1982. Milwaukee won the series three games to two to advance to the franchise's first World Series, where they would lose to the St. Louis Cardinals, four games to three. The 1982 ALCS was marked by a dramatic comeback by the Brewers, who lost the first two games of the series and were trailing late in the final game, and the series was the first League Championship Series where the home team won every game.
The series was noteworthy as being the first League Championship Series in either league to feature a matchup between two expansion teams (i.e., franchises not included among the 16 operating in the major leagues from 1901 to 1960), for featuring two teams that had never before won a pennant, and for being the first time a team came from a 2–0 deficit to win the series. It also marked the only time the ALCS Most Valuable Player (Fred Lynn) came from a losing team; Mike Scott (1986) and Jeffrey Leonard (1987) would later win an NLCS MVP from a losing side in the National League. This was the first ALCS not to feature the Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, or New York Yankees.
As of 2026, this is Milwaukee’s only league pennant, and they currently possess the third longest pennant drought in the majors.