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, after a stunning comeback down three games to one in the series. They became only the eighth team in baseball history to win a best-of-seven postseason series after being down 3–1, and the first to overcome such a deficit in the NLCS. 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 came back in decisive fashion, outscoring the Cardinals, 32–1, over the final three games of the series.

Atlanta won the series, 4–3.

Wednesday, October 9, 1996, at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia

Game 1 was played in Atlanta with 24-game winner John Smoltz on the mound for the Braves versus Andy Benes for the Cardinals. Brian Jordan tripled and scored the first run of the series for St. Louis on a wild pitch in the second, but Mark Lemke singled in two runs in the fifth. St. Louis tied the game in the seventh on three consecutive leadoff singles by Gary Gaetti, John Mabry and Tom Pagnozzi, but Atlanta catcher Javy López gave Atlanta back the lead for good with a two-run bases-loaded single in the bottom of the eighth off of T.J. Mathews, both runs charged to Mark Petkovsek. Mark Wohlers got the save after Smoltz threw eight innings. The Braves held on to a 4–2 victory.

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