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The 2011 National League Championship Series (abbreviated NLCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2011 postseason pitting the winners of the 2011 National League Division Series, the wild card St. Louis Cardinals and the second-seeded Milwaukee Brewers, against each other for the National League championship and the right to be the league's representative in the 2011 ...
The sweep cut the gap in the wild-card race to 4 1 ⁄ 2 games, but St. Louis had only 16 games left to play [86] and its playoff chances were still only 7.7%. [ 87 ] The Cardinals followed up their sweep of Atlanta by going on the road to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and taking two of three from the Pirates and three of four from the NL-leading ...
2011: St. Louis Cardinals † Tony La Russa: 4–2 Milwaukee Brewers: Ron Roenicke: David Freese, St. Louis 2012: San Francisco Giants: Bruce Bochy: 4–3 St. Louis Cardinals † Mike Matheny: Marco Scutaro, San Francisco 2013: St. Louis Cardinals: Mike Matheny: 4–2 Los Angeles Dodgers: Don Mattingly: Michael Wacha, St. Louis 2014: San ...
The 2021 National League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2021 postseason contested between the two wild card teams in the National League (NL): the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was played on October 6, [2] at Dodger Stadium. The game was televised nationally by TBS. [2]
Nielsen ratings for Game 7 of the 2012 NLCS between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals showed that 31.8% of households in the St. Louis area watched the game compared with 27.5 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nationally, Nielsen found that 8.1 million viewers saw this game, a 4.9% share of households.
The postseason began on September 30, 2011, and ended on October 28, 2011, with the Cardinals defeating the Rangers in seven games in the 2011 World Series. It was the Cardinals' 11th title in franchise history, tying the NHL 's Detroit Red Wings for the sixth most championship wins in North American sports .
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St. Louis extended their lead to 5–2 in the sixth when Freese hit a two-run homer to the grassy area in center field. After that, the Cards' bullpen took it the rest of the way. Arthur Rhodes pitched a 1–2–3 seventh, but Fernando Salas ran into trouble in the eighth, allowing a run on a wild pitch to cut the Cardinals' lead to 5–3.