| 1996 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 9–17 | |||||||||
| MVP | Javy López (Atlanta) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Paul Runge Mark Hirschbeck Bob Davidson Joe West Jerry Crawford Ed Montague | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Bob Brenly | |||||||||
| Radio | CBS | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jim Hunter and Jerry Coleman | |||||||||
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The 1996 National League Championship Series (NLCS) matched the East Division champion Atlanta Braves and the Central Division champion St. Louis Cardinals. It was the second NLCS meeting of the two teams and first since 1982. The Braves won in seven games, becoming the eighth team in baseball history to win a best-of-seven postseason series after being down 3–1, and first to overcome such a deficit in the NLCS. They outscored the Cardinals, 32–1, over the final three games. Also, Bobby Cox became the only manager to be on both the winning and losing end of such a comeback in postseason history, having previously blown the 1985 American League Championship Series with the Toronto Blue Jays against the Kansas City Royals.
The Braves would go on to lose to the New York Yankees in the World Series in six games.