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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 same was not true of the wild-card leading Atlanta Braves. 10 1 ⁄ 2 games ahead of the Cardinals on August 24, Atlanta went only 6–7 over its next 13 games before coming to St. Louis on September 9 to play a three-game series that would prove to be critical. In the first game, Atlanta led 3–1 going into the bottom of the ninth inning ...
On September 14, the Philadelphia Phillies became the first team to qualify for the NLDS (additionally they had the best record in MLB with 102 wins and 60 losses, 13 games over Atlanta in the National League East (NL East) at the end of the 2011 season, as well as the first team in either league to qualify for the postseason). [4]
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 .
The 2014 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2014 postseason pitting the defending National League champion and third-seeded St. Louis Cardinals against the fifth-seeded San Francisco Giants for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2014 World Series.
Starting in 2007, after consulting the MLBPA, MLB has decided to allow the team with the best record in the league that wins the All-Star Game to choose whether to use the seven-day schedule (1-2-off-3-4-off-5) or the eight-day schedule (1-off-2-off-3-4-off-5). The team only gets to choose the schedule; the opponent is still determined by win ...
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The 2012 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2012 postseason pitting the third-seeded San Francisco Giants against the defending World Series champion and fifth-seeded St. Louis Cardinals for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2012 World Series.