| 2018 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 12–20 | |||||||||
| MVP | Cody Bellinger (Los Angeles) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Scott Barry (Games 1–2) Gerry Davis (crew chief) Greg Gibson (Games 3–7) Brian Gorman, Alan Porter, Hunter Wendelstedt, Jim Wolf | |||||||||
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| Television | FS1 (Games 1, 3–7) Fox (Game 2) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman, Chris Singleton and Buster Olney | |||||||||
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The 2018 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the Milwaukee Brewers against the Los Angeles Dodgers, for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2018 World Series against the AL Champions, the Boston Red Sox.
The series was the 49th in league history, with Fox airing all games in the United States. This series was the first time two teams that won their division in a tiebreaker game faced each other in a playoff series, as well as the first postseason match-up between the Brewers and Dodgers. For the first time since 2012, the NLCS reached a game seven, with the Dodgers defeating the Brewers and winning back-to-back pennants for the first time since 1977–1978. The Dodgers lost in five games to the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
For the second year, Major League Baseball sold presenting sponsorships to all of its postseason series; as with the ALCS, this NLCS was sponsored by Google Assistant and was officially known as the National League Championship Series presented by Google Assistant.[1]
- ^ Playoff bracket set as Brewers, Dodgers win. MLB.com. Retrieved on October 1, 2018.