The time period “drought” will get thrown round typically in sports activities for groups that have not made the playoffs or gained a championship in a while. The phrase can imply various things to totally different fan bases in several contexts, and the 2024 American League Championship Sequence is all concerning the context of the phrase “drought.”
The New York Yankees, winners of 27 World Sequence championships, are in a little bit of a title drought. The franchise hasn’t gained the World Sequence in 15 years, the third-longest span they’ve gone with out successful since their first title in 1921. Aaron Choose, Giancarlo Stanton and the remainder of the trendy Bronx Bombers wish to change that in 2024, because the top-seeded Yankees are within the ALCS for the sixth time since they final made it to — and gained — the Fall Traditional in 2009.
A title drought has a totally totally different that means for the Cleveland Guardians, who final gained the World Sequence in 1948 and have gained the AL pennant solely 4 occasions since then. This 12 months’s model completed second within the AL in wins — behind solely the Yankees — and took out their AL Central rival Detroit Tigers within the ALDS to get right here.