| 1981 National League Division Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 6 – 11 | ||||||||||||
| Television | NBC KTTV (LAD) KRIV-TV (HOU) | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC: Joe Garagiola and Tony Kubek KTTV: Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett, and Ross Porter KRIV-TV: Gene Elston, Dewayne Staats, and Larry Dierker | ||||||||||||
| Radio | CBS KABC-AM (LAD) KENR (HOU) | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | CBS: Jerry Coleman and Sparky Anderson KABC: Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett, and Ross Porter KENR: Gene Elston, Dewayne Staats, and Larry Dierker | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Jerry Dale Jim Quick Satch Davidson John McSherry Lee Weyer Ed Montague | ||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 7 – 11 | ||||||||||||
| Television | NBC CBC (MON – English) SRC (MON – French) WPHL-TV (PHI) | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC Dick Enberg and Tom Seaver CBC: Dave Van Horne and Duke Snider SRC: Jean-Pierre Roy and Guy Ferron WPHL-TV: Harry Kalas, Andy Musser, Richie Ashburn and Tim McCarver | ||||||||||||
| Radio | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jack Buck and Joe Torre | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Terry Tata Frank Pulli Bruce Froemming Billy Williams John Kibler Jerry Crawford | ||||||||||||
The 1981 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 1981 National League playoffs which began on Tuesday, October 6, and ended on Sunday, October 11. The Division Series was created on August 6 in response to the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, which caused the cancellation of roughly one-third of the regular season between June 12 and August 9; by the time play was resumed, it was decided that the best approach was to have the first-half leaders automatically qualify for postseason play, and allow all the teams to begin the second half with a clean slate. The series were best-of-five games.
The Montreal Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies while the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros to advance to the National League Championship Series.