1981 National League Championship Series
13th edition of Major League Baseball's National League Championship Series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1981 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series to end the 1981 National League season. It was the 13th NLCS in all. The series featured the first-half West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the second-half East Division champion Montreal Expos. The Dodgers won the series three games to two over the Expos, thanks to a ninth-inning home run in Game 5 by Rick Monday in what has ever since been referred to as "Blue Monday" by Expos fans.
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Dates | October 13–19 | |||||||||
MVP | Burt Hooton (Los Angeles) | |||||||||
Umpires | Paul Pryor Eric Gregg Paul Runge Dutch Rennert Harry Wendelstedt (crew chief) Joe West | |||||||||
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Television | NBC CBC SRC (French-language broadcast) KTTV (Dodgers' broadcast) | |||||||||
TV announcers | NBC: Dick Enberg and Tom Seaver CBC: Dave Van Horne and Duke Snider SRC: Jean-Pierre Roy and Guy Ferron KTTV: Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett and Ross Porter | |||||||||
Radio | CBS | |||||||||
Radio announcers | Jack Buck and Jerry Coleman | |||||||||
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The Dodgers would go on to defeat the New York Yankees in the World Series.