2013 National League Championship Series
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| Dates | October 11–18 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Michael Wacha (St. Louis) | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Gerry Davis (crew chief), Mark Carlson, Mike Everitt, Bruce Dreckman, Ted Barrett, Greg Gibson | ||||||||||||
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| Television | TBS | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Ernie Johnson Jr., Ron Darling, Cal Ripken Jr., and Craig Sager | ||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser | ||||||||||||
| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| St. Louis Cardinals (4) | Mike Matheny | 97–65, .599, 3 GA | |
| Los Angeles Dodgers (2) | Don Mattingly | 92–70, .568, 11 GA |
The 2013 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2013 World Series against the Boston Red Sox. The series was the 44th in league history with TBS broadcasting all games in the United States.
This was the fourth postseason meeting between the Cardinals and Dodgers. The two teams previously met in the 1985 NLCS (Cardinals won 4–2), 2004 NLDS (Cardinals won 3–1), and 2009 NLDS (Dodgers won 3–0).
St. Louis won the series, 4–2.
Friday, October 11, 2013 – 8:37 p.m. (EDT) at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri
The Dodgers loaded the bases with two outs off of Joe Kelly on a double and two walks in the third inning when Juan Uribe's single scored two, but in the bottom of the inning, Zack Greinke allowed a two-out single to Kelly and walked Matt Carpenter before both men scored on Carlos Beltran's double tying the game. Greinke allowed only two runs in eight innings, while striking out a season high ten batters, the first pitcher to strike out ten Cardinals in a post-season game since Denny Galehouse in the 1944 World Series. The game went into extra innings and in the top of the tenth, Mark Ellis tripled with one out and tried to score on Michael Young's sacrifice fly, but was tagged out by Beltran to end the inning. In the bottom of the 13th, Beltran drove in the winning run with a line drive into the right-field corner that scored Daniel Descalso from second off of Kenley Jansen. The game was the third longest NLCS game ever (after game six in 1986 and game five in 1999), the Dodgers' longest post-season game since game two of the 1916 World Series and the Cardinals' longest ever. It was the longest NLCS Game 1 ever.
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