2019 American League Wild Card Game
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| Date | October 2, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | RingCentral Coliseum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| City | Oakland, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Attendance | 54,005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ceremonial first pitch | MC Hammer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Television | ESPN ESPN2 (Statcast Edition) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Matt Vasgersian, Jessica Mendoza, Alex Rodriguez, and Buster Olney (ESPN) Jason Benetti, Eduardo Pérez, and Mike Petriello (ESPN2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman and Chris Singleton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2019 American League Wild Card Game was a playoff game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2019 postseason contested between the American League's two wild card teams, the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays. It was played on October 2, with Tampa Bay advancing to the American League Division Series to face the Houston Astros.
The game was televised nationally by ESPN. An alternate telecast, featuring Statcast analytics and sponsored by Amazon Web Services, aired on ESPN2. The game set the record for the highest attendance at a wild card game with an attendance of 54,005. Tyler Glasnow of the visiting Rays later said that the racous Oakland Coliseum was the loudest environment he had ever been in.