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The 2008 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the National League side in Major League Baseball’s 2008 postseason, was a best-of-seven baseball game series. The series matched the NL West Champion and third-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers against the NL East Champion and second-seeded Philadelphia Phillies , who had home ...
Madison Bumgarner, the 2014 National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player, won both this award and the World Series MVP in the same season.. The League Championship Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given annually to the Major League Baseball (MLB) players deemed to have the most impact on their teams' performances in each of the two respective League Championship Series ...
Jim Konstanty, to date the only National League relief pitcher to be named MVP, won it in 1950. Hall of Famer Willie Mays won the award in 1954 and 1965 with the same team in different cities. Hall of Famer Frank Robinson is the first player to win the award in both leagues (NL in 1961 and AL in 1966).
He finished sixth in that year’s Most Valuable Player voting. The following year in 1935, he won the award, as the Tigers came out victorious in six games in the World Series.
February 10 – Lenny Roberts, 85, National League umpire who worked in 72 games during the 1953 season, his only year in the majors February 14 – Hal Erickson , 88, star pitcher in the minors for the Quebec Braves in the late 1940s who later became a 33-year-old rookie with the 1953 Tigers
For three years, Major League Baseball’s two biggest stars traded off winning the American League Most Valuable Player award, with Ohtani’s two-way greatness on the mound and at the plate ...
The 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 79th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was played at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York City, home of the New York Yankees, on July 15, 2008, and began at 8:47 p.m ...
National League Championship Series MVP Award: 1 2007 [3] National League Player of the Month: 1 September 2007 [50] National League Player of the Week: 7 July 31, 2005 September 24, 2006 July 29, 2007 September 16, 2007 April 13, 2008 June 20, 2010 September 2, 2014 [28] [38] [44] [47] [78] [131] [174] Silver Slugger Award at outfield: 4 2006 ...