2012 National League Championship Series information
2012 National League Championship Series
Team (Wins)
Manager(s)
Season
San Francisco Giants (4)
Bruce Bochy
94–68, .580, GA: 8
St. Louis Cardinals (3)
Mike Matheny
88–74, .543, GB: 9
Dates
October 14–22
MVP
Marco Scutaro (San Francisco)
Umpires
Gary Darling (crew chief), Chris Guccione, Bill Miller, Greg Gibson, Ted Barrett, Jerry Layne[1]
Broadcast
Television
Fox
TV announcers
Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, Ken Rosenthal, and Erin Andrews
Radio
ESPN
Radio announcers
Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton
NLDS
St. Louis Cardinals over Washington Nationals (3–2)
San Francisco Giants over Cincinnati Reds (3–2)
← 2011
NLCS
2013 →
The 2012 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the San Francisco Giants against the St. Louis Cardinals for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2012 World Series. The series, the 43rd NLCS in league history, began Sunday, October 14, and ended Monday, October 22, with Fox airing all games in the United States. In shades of the 1996 NLCS, a series where the Cardinals blew a 3–1 series lead where they were outscored 32–1 over the final three games, the Giants came back from a 3–1 deficit and outscored the Cardinals, 20–1, over the final three games to win the series, 4–3.
This was the third postseason meeting between the Giants and the Cardinals and also marked the first time in MLB history since the creation of the League Championship Series in 1969 that the last two World Series champions faced off against each other for the pennant.[2] The Giants won in 2010 while the Cardinals won in 2011. Coincidentally, the previous two postseason meetings between the two teams occurred in the NLCS, which both ended on October 14 (the day of 2012's Game 1): the Cardinals won Game 7 of the 1987 NLCS, and the Giants triumphed in the pennant-clinching Game 5 of the 2002 NLCS.
The Giants would go on to sweep the Detroit Tigers in the World Series in four games.
^"Roster: 2012 League Championship Series (LCS) Umpires". Close Call Sports. October 13, 2012.
^Kepner, Tyler (October 15, 2012). "Past Two World Series Champions Duel for a Chance to Return". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
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