Baseball: Cardinals/Dodgers Post Season Notes

It will be the two seed Los Angeles Dodgers vs the three seed St. Louis Cardinals in one National League Division series beginning Friday night in Los Angeles.

This will be the third time the teams are meeting in the division series. The Cardinals won in 2004 while the Dodgers won in 2009.

These two storied franchises have met twice in the NLCS with the Cardinals winning both times (1985 and 2013).

In addition, before divisional play, back in 1946, the teams ended the regular season tied. That necessitated a best of three playoff which the Cardinals won in two straight games.

In 1946, the Cardinals went on to defeat the Red Sox in seven games to win the World Series. That was the only time in 5 possibilities that the winner of a Cardinals/Dodgers post season series went on to win the World Series.

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