LCS Redux This Weekend

Seven of the 15 weekend major league baseball match ups involve teams that met once and only once either in League Championship Series or World Series play.

Looking at NLCS history involving teams clashing this weekend, the New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs in 4 straight games in last year’s NLCS, after losing all 7 regular season tilts between the two clubs. The Mets have won the first two “reg” games this season, in the current series at Citi Field.

The Miami Marlins then known as the Florida Marlins, a name under which they won 2 World Series titles (other than the Yankees (5) only the Boston Red Sox and S.F. Giants 3 each, after respective 86 and 56 year title droughts, have won more World Series since the Marlins began play in 1997), defeated the Atlanta Braves in a pretty big upset for baseball, in six games in the 1997 NLCS.

In our next post, a look at another NLCS redux, this involving a team that moved from the American League to the National League and the one ALCS redux (it was a classic one), this weekend.

Click below to view “The Staple Sisters” sing “Let’s Do It Again.”

Staple Singers – Lets Do It Again