| 1969 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 4–6 | |||||||||
| Umpires | Al Barlick (crew chief) Augie Donatelli Ed Sudol Ed Vargo Chris Pelekoudas Mel Steiner | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC (national broadcast) WSB-TV (Braves' broadcast) WOR-TV (Mets' broadacast) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC: Jim Simpson and Sandy Koufax (Game 1) Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek (Games 2–3) WSB-TV: Milo Hamilton and Ernie Johnson, Sr. WOR-TV: Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy, and Lindsey Nelson | |||||||||
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The 1969 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five match-up between the East Division champion New York Mets and the West Division champion Atlanta Braves. In what was the first ever NLCS, the Mets defeated the Braves three games to none. They did not sweep a playoff series again until 2006 as they swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series in three games.
At that time, the New York Mets became the fastest expansion team to win a National League pennant with only eight years of existence. Twenty-eight years later, in 1997, the Florida Marlins would break that record by reaching and winning the World Series with only five years of existence. Four years after the Marlins, the Arizona Diamondbacks would break that by reaching and winning the World Series in just their fourth year.
Game 3 was Nolan Ryan's first playoff victory of his career.