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The Division Series was created on August 6 in response to the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, which caused the cancellation of roughly one-third of the regular season between June 12 and August 9; by the time play was resumed, it was decided that the best approach was to have the first-half leaders automatically qualify for postseason play ...
The 1981 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five playoff series in Major League Baseball’s 1981 postseason 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 1981 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1981 season. The season had a players' strike , which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves.
After losing to the Yankees in the 1977 and 1978 World Series, the 1981 Dodgers share how they erased a deficit to earn redemption and win a title.
The winner of the first half played the winner of the second half in each division in the 1981 National League Division Series. The winners played in the 1981 NLCS for the National League pennant. [129] b The leagues were re-aligned in 1994 to three divisions and a wild card was added to the playoffs, but the labor stoppage cancelled the ...
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers; World Series Champions National League Champions National League West Co-Champions: League: National League: Division: West: Ballpark: Dodger Stadium: City: Los Angeles: Record: 63–47 (.573) (Overall) 36–21 (.632) (First half) 27–26 (.509) (Second half) Divisional place: 2nd (Overall) 1st (First half) 4th (Second ...
In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies in five games while in the Western Division, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros, also in five games (the Astros were members of the National League until 2012).
October 19 – On a day that will be remembered in Montréal as "Blue Monday", Rick Monday hits a ninth-inning home run to break a 1–1 tie, and secure a Game 5 victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Montréal Expos in the best-of-five 1981 National League Championship Series. The Expos had been leading the series, two games to one, but ...