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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 ...
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 .
Jackson Chourio tied it in the eighth with his second homer of the game and Garrett Mitchell put the Brewers out in front with a blast of his own.
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.
Between 1995 and 2011, they finished under .500 only three times. ... That’s the most recent St. Louis team to lose 90 games, or finish last in its division. ... St. Louis Cardinals rookie Nolan ...
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 St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). Founded in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association (AA), the team was originally named the Brown Stockings before it was shortened to Browns the next season.