| 2019 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 11–15 | |||||||||
| MVP | Howie Kendrick (Washington) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Chris Conroy, Fieldin Culbreth, Phil Cuzzi, Chad Fairchild, Chris Guccione,[a] Bill Miller (crew chief), Mike Muchlinski[a] | |||||||||
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| Television | TBS | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Brian Anderson, Ron Darling, Jeff Francoeur and Lauren Shehadi | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi and Jessica Mendoza | |||||||||
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The 2019 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven series between the two winners of the 2019 National League Division Series, the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals, for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2019 World Series. The series was scheduled in a 2–3–2 format, with the Cardinals having home-field advantage because the Nationals were a wild card team.[1] The series was the 50th NLCS in league history,[b] with TBS televising all games in the United States.
For the third straight year, Major League Baseball sold presenting sponsorships to all of its postseason series; as with the ALCS, this NLCS was sponsored by GEICO and officially known as the 2019 National League Championship Series presented by GEICO.[2]
This was the second NLCS in which the winning team never trailed during a game (the other being in 2015) and the second postseason series in which the winning team scored first in every game and never relinquished a lead once taken (the first being the 1966 World Series).[3] This was also the first NLCS since 2015 to end in a sweep and the fourth best-of-seven NLCS to do so (the others being in 2007 and 1995).
The Nationals won their first National League pennant, and would go on to defeat the Houston Astros in the World Series in seven games, winning their first World Series championship in franchise history and bringing Washington D.C. its first World Series title since the Washington Senators back in 1924. The Nationals also became the second team to sweep their opponent in the LCS since the series became best-of-seven, and subsequently win the World Series (the first being the Atlanta Braves in 1995).
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- ^ "MLB Postseason". MLB.com. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ^ ESPN’s Cross-Platform Coverage of the 2019 MLB Postseason - ESPN Press Room U.S.. espnpressroom.com. Retrieved on October 10, 2019.
- ^ Gardner, Steve (October 16, 2019). "Cardinals unravel as Nationals score seven runs in first inning of NLCS Game 4". usatoday.com. Retrieved October 16, 2019.