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| Dates | October 9–15 | |||||||||
| MVP | Cole Hamels (Philadelphia) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Mike Reilly (crew chief), Jerry Meals, Mike Everitt, Ted Barrett, Mike Winters, Gary Cederstrom | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox RSN NASN Five ESPN Latin America | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck and Tim McCarver (Fox) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman, Steve Phillips (Games 1–2) and Orel Hershiser (Games 3–5) | |||||||||
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The 2008 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the 2008 National League playoffs, was a best-of-seven baseball game series. The series matched the NL West Champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the NL East Champion Philadelphia Phillies, who had home field advantage for this series due to their better regular-season record. The teams split their season series, with the home team sweeping their two four-game series in August.
This series marked the first postseason meeting for the Phillies and Dodgers since the 1983 NLCS, which Philadelphia won 3–1 en route to a loss to Baltimore in the World Series. It also marked the first NLCS for both teams since the Division Series was instituted in 1995. Overall, this was the fourth time these two teams had met in the postseason. Prior to the 1983 NLCS, the Dodgers had defeated the Phillies 3–1 in the NLCS during both the 1977 and 1978 post-seasons.
The series opened on Thursday, October 9, 2008, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, with the series being telecast on Fox.
The Phillies won the series, four games to one. They would go on to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series in five games.