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2008 National League Championship Series

2008 National League Championship Series
NLCS logo 2008.gif
Teams
Team (Wins) Manager Season
Philadelphia Phillies (4) Charlie Manuel 92–70, .568, GA: 3
Los Angeles Dodgers (1) Joe Torre 84–78, .519, GA: 2
Dates October 9 – 15
MVP Cole Hamels (Philadelphia)
Umpires Mike Reilly (crew chief), Jerry Meals, Mike Everitt, Ted Barrett, Mike Winters, Gary Cederstrom
NLDS
Broadcast
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)
NLCS
2008 World Series
Team (Wins) Manager Season
Philadelphia Phillies (4) Charlie Manuel 92–70, .568, GA: 3
Los Angeles Dodgers (1) Joe Torre 84–78, .519, GA: 2

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.

The Phillies won the series, four games to one.

The series opened on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, with the series being telecast on Fox.

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.

Philadelphia won the series, 4–1.

Thursday, October 9, 2008 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


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