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Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).
In the NLCS, they faced the Colorado Rockies again.
They won a dramatic NLCS in six games over the Houston Astros which they needed to win to avoid facing Mike Scott in Game 7.
In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games going into extra innings, they fell behind 2 – 1 but battled back to squeeze past the Houston Astros on a tenth-inning, game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first pennant in 30 years.
He then pitched 10 shutout innings in Game 3 of the NLCS and the Astros won 1 – 0, though they lost the series to the Philadelphia Phillies, 3 – 2.
He went 22 – 6 with a 2. 76 ERA in 1990 en route to winning the National League Cy Young Award and leading the Pirates to the postseason ( where they lost in the NLCS to the Cincinnati Reds ).
The Cardinals made the playoffs and swept the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS, but they were defeated in five games by the New York Mets in the NLCS.
Rentería only batted. 194 in the playoffs, but the Cardinals made it all the way to the NLCS, where they were beaten by San Francisco in five games.
After the Dodgers won the series in five games, they went on to face the Montreal Expos in the NLCS ; Hooton won Game 1, allowing only six hits before leaving in the eighth inning with a 2-0 lead.
After defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1, in the National League Division Series, and the Houston Astros, 4 games to 3, in the NLCS, they went to the World Series for the first time since 1987, where they played the Boston Red Sox, but were swept.
However, they also carried the baggage of their embarrassing NLCS loss to the Florida Marlins the previous season.
It was the seventh-consecutive NLCS appearance for the Braves and they would be heavily-favored against the Padres.
The victory gave the Mets a 2-1 lead in the NLCS ; they won the pennant two days later in five games.
The Phillies had a strikingly similar run entering this Series, as they were also divisional winners from 1976 to 1978, losing to the Cincinnati Reds in 1976 NLCS and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1977 and 1978, before regrouping in and triumphing over the Houston Astros in the League Championship Series.
* The Chicago Cubs just missed advancing to their first World Series since 1945, as they blew a 3 games to 1 lead against the Marlins in the 2003 NLCS.
In the NLCS versus the Milwaukee Brewers, the Cardinals won 2 of the three games they played at home ( Games 3, 4, 5 ).
However, they fell in heartbreaking fashion to Rick Monday and the eventual World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers in a five-game NLCS.

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The Rockies went on to play in the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who swept their own NLDS against the Chicago Cubs.
* Brad Penny ( 2000 – 2004 ) — In 2003, Penny collected the win in Florida's NLCS clinching victory over the Chicago Cubs and in the World Series against the New York Yankees he went 2 – 0 with a 2. 19 ERA in his two starts.
The NLCS game six win was sixteen innings long, the longest playoff game in history until the Braves and Astros went 18 innings in 2005.
Benito Santiago went on to win the MVP award in the NLCS.
In the 1980 NLCS versus the Philadelphia Phillies, Ryan pitched well in Game 2, leaving the game tied 2 – 2 in the seventh ( having contributed to both Astros runs with a run scored following a walk, and a sacrifice bunt leading to a run ) but again got a no decision in a game that went extra innings.
The Marlins scored eight runs in the 8th inning, winning 8-3 in Game 6, and also went on to win the deciding Game 7 of that NLCS and ultimately beat the New York Yankees in the World Series.
In the 1986 post-season, Aguilera went on to pitch five scoreless innings in relief against the Houston Astros in the NLCS.
The 1978 playoffs were rematches ; in Game 1 of the NLCS against the Phillies, Hooton left after allowing three runs in the fifth inning, although the Dodgers still led 7-4 and went on to win the game.
Despite Johnson's mediocre season, the Mets easily coasted to a division win but Johnson went 1-for-18 with six strikeouts in the 1988 NLCS.
In the must win game 6 of the NLCS against the Cardinals Maine went 5 and defeated defending Cy Young award winner in the National League Chris Carpenter to force a game 7.
His second playoff start came in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS vs the Cardinals, he went 6 strong innings allowing 1 ER, The Mets would eventually go on to lose the game 3 – 1.
He contributed two home runs in the 1999 NLCS, but went 1 for 13 in his only World Series appearance.
As a player, Matthews went to the postseason after the 1981, 1983 and 1984 campaigns and was voted the MVP of the 1983 NLCS when he hit three home runs and collected 8 RBI in four games, leading the Phillies past the Los Angeles Dodgers into the World Series.

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The two series winners move on to the best-of-seven NLCS.
Colorado won the first two games of the NLCS against the Diamondbacks in Phoenix, then won their third game against the Diamondbacks in Denver on Sunday, October 14.
Being controversially called out on strikes by umpire Eric Gregg on a pitch 3 feet outside thrown by Liván Hernández during the 1997 NLCS was the last significant event for McGriff as a Brave.
Niekro started Game One of the subsequent NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals and pitched well, but the game was called on account of rain just before it became official.
Kalas ' call on the Phillies ' victory in Game 5 of the 2008 NLCS:
He scored the pennant winning run from third base in Game 5 of the 1972 NLCS against Pittsburgh on a wild pitch.
Zambrano was the starter in the first game of the NLCS at Wrigley Field on October 7.
In Game 5 of the NLCS against the Astros, with the Cardinals trailing by two runs and only one out from elimination in the ninth inning, Pujols hit a game-winning three-run home run against Brad Lidge that landed on the train tracks in the back of Minute Maid Park as the Cardinals won 5 – 4.
His only All-Star appearance was in 1981, when he also was named the NLCS Most Valuable Player on the way to helping the Dodgers to a World Series championship with four postseason wins in five appearances.
Marquis was on the Cardinals roster for their first-round playoff matchup against the San Diego Padres, but did not make an appearance in the series and was not included on the roster for either the NLCS or for the 2006 World Series, which the Cardinals won.
Hershiser would dominate the Mets in the NLCS, while Gibson hobbled through on bad knees and a bruised hamstring but would produce a memorable, if not the greatest, at-bat ( in Game 1 ) of the World Series.
The following season, he played on a Cubs team that held a three-run lead in the eighth inning of Game Six of the 2003 NLCS.
The cancellation of Game 5 of the 1981 NLCS, which was supposed to be televised on NBC that Sunday afternoon, allowed CBS to achieve record breaking, regular season ratings for television viewership of pro football.
He has the distinction of having been on base for the last two times that the World Series ended with a walk-off hit, and was named the NLCS Most Valuable Player in 2001.

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