| 2002 National League Division Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 2–7 | ||||||||||||
| Television | ABC Family (Game 1) Fox (Games 2, 4–5) FX (Game 3) | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Dave O'Brien, Tony Gwynn (Game 1) Thom Brennaman, Steve Lyons (Games 2, 4) Josh Lewin, Steve Lyons (Game 3) Joe Buck, Tim McCarver (Game 5) | ||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Gary Cohen, Rob Dibble | ||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 1–5 | ||||||||||||
| Television | ABC Family | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Chris Berman, Rick Sutcliffe (Games 1–2) Jon Miller, Joe Morgan (Game 3) | ||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jim Durham, Buck Showalter | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Mike Reilly, Paul Emmel, Angel Hernandez, Jerry Layne, Tim Tschida, Ted Barrett (Braves–Giants, Games 1–2, 5; Diamondbacks–Cardinals, Game 3) Bruce Froemming, Bill Miller, Ron Kulpa, Gary Darling, Steve Rippley, Mark Hirschbeck (Diamondbacks–Cardinals, Games 1–2; Braves–Giants, Games 3–4) | ||||||||||||
The 2002 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 2002 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 1, and ended on Monday, October 7, with the champions of the three NL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
- (1) Atlanta Braves (Eastern Division champion, 101–59) vs. (4) San Francisco Giants (Wild Card, 95–66); Giants win series, 3–2.
- (2) Arizona Diamondbacks (Western Division champion, 98–64) vs. (3) St. Louis Cardinals (Central Division champion, 97–65); Cardinals win series, 3–0.[1]
The Cardinals and Giants went on to meet in the NL Championship Series (NLCS). The Giants became the National League champion, and lost to the American League champion Anaheim Angels in the 2002 World Series.
- ^ The higher seed (in parentheses) had the home field advantage (Games 1, 2 and 5 at home), which was determined by playing record.