| 1981 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 13–19 | |||||||||
| MVP | Burt Hooton (Los Angeles) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Paul Pryor Eric Gregg Paul Runge Dutch Rennert Harry Wendelstedt (crew chief) Joe West | |||||||||
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| Television | NBC CBC (MON – English) SRC (MON – French) KTTV (LAD) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | NBC: Dick Enberg and Tom Seaver CBC: Dave Van Horne and Duke Snider SRC: Jean-Pierre Roy and Guy Ferron KTTV: Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett and Ross Porter | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jack Buck and Jerry Coleman | |||||||||
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The 1981 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series to end the 1981 National League season. It was the 13th NLCS in all. The series featured the first-half West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the second-half East Division champion Montreal Expos. The Dodgers won the series three games to two over the Expos, thanks to a ninth-inning home run in Game 5 by Rick Monday in what has ever since been referred to as "Blue Monday" by Expos fans.
The Dodgers would go on to defeat the New York Yankees in the World Series.