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The 2009 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven baseball game series in Major League Baseball’s 2009 postseason pitting the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers against the second-seeded Philadelphia Phillies for the National League Championship and the right to represent the National League in the 2009 World Series.
Jimmy Rollins right after a throw to first base, 2009. Unlike in spring training 2007, Rollins "made no guarantees heading into the next season, but that didn't mean the Phillies weren't confident" entering their 2008 season , despite the Mets' acquisition of Johan Santana and a "2007 Rollins-esque" guarantee of winning the division from Carlos ...
Both teams split the first two games at Dodger Stadium. When the series shifted to Philadelphia, the Phillies blew out the Dodgers in Game 3, Phillies' Jimmy Rollins hit a two-out walk-off two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 4 to take a 3–1 series lead, and then blew out the Dodgers again in Game 5 to secure the pennant.
The 2009 National League Division Series (NLDS) consisted of two concurrent best-of-five game series that determined the participating teams in the 2009 National League Championship Series. Three divisional winners and a "wild card" team played in the two series. The NLDS began on Wednesday, October 7 and ended on Monday, October 12.
2009 (2008 Phillies) – John Wanamaker Athletic Award (Philadelphia Sports Congress) [44] [49] [50] 2009 – Warren C. Giles Trophy (National League champion) 2009 – Baseball America Organization of the Year [51] 2009 – No. 33 on Sports Illustrated list of Top Franchises of the Decade (in MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, college basketball, and college ...
With two outs and two runners aboard, Jimmy Rollins [155] hit a 99-mile-per-hour (159 km/h) fastball to the right-center field gap, scoring Eric Bruntlett (who had pinch-run) and Ruiz. [156] [157] In the fifth game, the Phillies hit four home runs, including two by Jayson Werth, as Hamels allowed three runs in his second start of the series.
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Edwin Díaz closed the game as the Mets avoided elimination to force Game 6 and send the series back to Los Angeles. [21] The Mets’ 12 runs were the second most they scored in a postseason game in franchise history, tied with Game 4 of the 2006 NLCS and behind only Game 3 of the 2015 NLDS, where they scored 13 (also against the Dodgers at ...