League Championship Series

This is it.

It's the League Championship Series.

We have two rounds down.

Wild card was fascinating.

Wow.

He's a star.

He's already a star, but now we get to see him again in the League Championship Series, and we get to see Pat Murphy, the manager, who has done an absolutely fabulous job again with the Brewers.

He's won the Manager of the Year two years in a row.

Miami running back Jalen Wright is active and will suit up for Miami.

Tonight in baseball, it's game one of the National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and Brewers.

Our coverage gets underway on ESPN Radio at 7.30 Eastern.

It's a rematch of last year's NLCS.

One-oh pitch, [bat hits ball] fouled back one and one.

And so the Orioles were able to obtain Tito Landrum in a deal which sent the third baseman Floyd "Sugar Bear" Rayford to the Cardinals in mid-season, and lo and behold, Landrum finds himself playing in the League Championship Series when he couldn't even make the Cardinals major league roster.

Played this year for that marvelous franchise down in Louisville, minor leagues that drew over one million people, Mr.

A. Ray Smith.

Yesterday he had an error, was involved in a couple of other misplays which weren't charged, and at the plate he went O for four.

I think that's a pretty strong, too strong of an indictment for a guy who has not played in that many.

He hit over 400 in the League Championship Series.

People have tended to forget that.

The winner sails to New York for a World Series date with the Yankees.

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Today from Olympic Stadium, it's the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Montreal Expos.

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And we're going to go down to the winners' locker room in just a moment.

The Dodgers win 2 to 1.

The beginning of the 1976 World Series.

It all really begins in October with the League Championship Series, which you must win to get into the World Series.

Ninth inning, the Reds two runs down to the Phillies.

George Foster hits a home run, and now they trail by only one run.

He is the once and present A, of course.

He started his career here and then came back, and when you take a look at Rickey right there and you look at the numbers that these two fellows put up in the League Championship Series, Clark hitting 650.

Henderson not only 6 for 15, but keep in mind those seven walks, which led to eight steals, which led to eight runs, and of course, he made life absolutely miserable over a five-game stretch for the Toronto Blue Jays, as this was a, an all too familiar sight.

Rickey Henderson stealing third here, and of course, a, a crawl for Ernie Whit, the catcher.

And when he wasn't walking and stealing or singling and stealing, he was home running, which he did twice in game four in Toronto to lead the A's to a victory.

Will Clark in game one of the National League Championship Series hit a grand slam home run.

He went four for four that night, and then of course, last Monday, game tied in the eighth inning, Mitch Williams on the mound, base hit up the middle to drive in two to give the Giants the lead, and eventually the pennant, the final score was three to two.

Well, joining us for our pregame shows will be Gary Thorne and Joe Morgan for the World Series, and earlier they talked with Will Clark and Rickey Henderson.

And again, if the O's can win both weekend games, they will force a playoff in Baltimore Monday, which you will see here on NBC beginning at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.

The American League Championship Series begins here on NBC Tuesday night from Oakland.

The National League Series between the Giants and the Cubs begins here on NBC Wednesday night.

And when we return, Frank Robinson and Tito Gaston, the managers in this decisive series, they happen to be Black.

For the child in all of us, for the memories yet to come, baseball, ageless, timeless, a communal and generational experience, and a franchise we never relinquish in our hearts.

Up next, some of those memories yet to come, the Jays and the Orioles, NBC's final Game of the Week broadcast.

The League Championship Series begin next week.

I'm Gale Gardner.

Thursday was the if necessary day for the Guardians and White Sox, or the first one.

Either way, if that holds true in the playoffs, the Rays beat the Guardians in five and then the Sox in six games in the ALCS.

But both teams, Chicago and Cleveland, still emptied their bullpens on Thursday night.

Eight pitchers for Cleveland and seven for Chicago.

Game one, Sunday, October 11th, 8 p.m., and remember, from here on out, best of seven series for both the NL and AL.

Game two of that series will be the next day at 5 p.m., so the top two teams in baseball play in the late afternoon.

L.A. at Milwaukee, game two is at 5 p.m., and then either Chicago or Cleveland in St. Pete against Tampa Bay, game one of the ALCS at 8 p.m. All games of the ALCS will still be aired on TBS and the HBO Max streaming app.

Game two is the next night for the Rays and either the Guardians or the White Sox.