| 2009 National League Championship Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 15–21 | |||||||||
| MVP | Ryan Howard (Philadelphia) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Randy Marsh (crew chief), Gary Cederstrom, Tom Hallion, Ted Barrett, Bruce Dreckman, Sam Holbrook | |||||||||
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| Television | TBS | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Chip Caray, Ron Darling, Buck Martinez and Craig Sager | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN (national) KABC-AM (Dodgers) WPHT-AM (Phillies) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman and Dave Campbell (ESPN) Vin Scully, Charley Steiner and Rick Monday (KABC) Tom McCarthy, Scott Franzke, Larry Andersen, Gary Matthews and Chris Wheeler (WPHT) | |||||||||
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The 2009 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven baseball game series pitting the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Philadelphia Phillies for the National League Championship and the right to represent the National League in the 2009 World Series. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers four games to one. Los Angeles, whose NL-best 95–67 record topped Philadelphia's 93–69 record, retained home-field advantage. The series, the 40th in league history, began on October 15 and finished on October 21. TBS carried the championship on television.
In the regular season, the teams played seven games and the Dodgers won four of them, outscoring the Phillies 26–25. In the NLCS, the Phillies won the series, four games to one, advancing to the World Series for the second consecutive year. They were, however, defeated by the New York Yankees, 4–2.
This was the second consecutive NLCS between the Dodgers and Phillies and the fifth overall. The first two meetings were won by the Dodgers in 1977 and 1978, and the third by the Phillies in 1983; none of the three resulted in a World Series Championship by either team. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers in five games in 2008 en route to their 2008 World Series title. This match-up is the most frequent in the history of the NLCS (as of 2009) tied with the Pirates vs. Reds. This was the first time in LCS history that two franchises met in consecutive League Championship Series on separate occasions (1977–1978, 2008–2009).