All-Time Records vs. 2000 Playoff Teams
Team	Overall	1990s	2000	Postseason (last meeting)
Yankees	835-1038	45-72	5-5	5-6 (1998 ALCS: lost in six games)
White Sox	894-917	64-58	4-8	never met
Athletics	962-832	62-45	6-6	never met
Mariners	148-109	54-52	7-2	4-2 (1995 ALCS: won in six games)

Most Memorable Postseason Moment

Sandy Alomar, Jr. Goes Deep -- October 5, 1997

For Sandy Alomar Jr., 1997 was a magical year. Earlier in the season, he went on a 30-game hitting streak, falling just one game shy of tying Hall-of-Famer Nap Lajoie's team record set in 1906; he hit a game-winning homer in front of a hometown crowd during the All-Star Game; and his game-winning single against the Yankees on September 23 clinched the AL Central division title for the Indians. Two weeks later, with his team five outs away from elimination in Game 4 of the best-of-five Division Series with the Yankees, Alomar came through again, belting an eighth-inning, game-tying homer off Yankee stopper Mariano Rivera. The Yanks allowed another run in the ninth to lose the game, and went on to lose another heartbreaker to the Indians the very next day.

Most Memorable Postseason Performer

Stan Coveleski -- 1920

FUN FACT » Even though the Tribe ended up losing the game 4-3 in 12 innings, Indians pitchers Charles Nagy, Alan Embree, Paul Shuey, Paul Assenmacher, Eric Plunk, Jose Mesa and Chad Ogea combined to set an all-time playoff record with 23 strikeouts against the Baltimore Orioles in Game 4 of the 1996 AL Division Series. Two months after second baseman Ray Chapman died after being hit in the head by a pitch, the Indians captured their first ever World Series title in 1920 thanks to the dominating pitching of spitballer Stan Coveleski. Coveleski, a 24-game winner during the regular season, held the Brooklyn Robins (later known as the Dodgers) to just two runs and two walks in 27 innings pitched. He won each of his three starts with complete-game five-hitters.

Most Memorable Pennant Race

1948: A Close Shave

Despite falling from first to third (behind the Yankees and Red Sox) during the last days of August 1948, the Indians emerged victorious in one of the greatest races in baseball history. By the time the dust cleared, the Indians and Red Sox were tied for first, with the Yankees just two games behind. For the first time in American League history, the 1948 pennant was to be decided in a one-game playoff. Cleveland manager Lou Boudreau decided to go with gutsy rookie Gene Bearden, who -- pitching on one day's rest before a loud Red Sox crowd at Fenway -- hurled a five-hitter, leading the Indians to an 8-3 victory and a World Series berth.