The Ultimate NLCS Quiz For MLB Experts
Every Major League Baseball fan remembers where they were during the 2003 NLCS when Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman snagged a foul ball by interfering with a play Moises Alou was about to make. It changed the momentum of the series and ended up costing the Cubs a shot at the World Series once again.
That is just one of the many memories that the National League Championship Series has given us over the years. There is also the 1992 NLCS and Sid Bream’s infamous slide into home base, Ozzie Smith going deep from the left side of the plate for the first time in his career in 1985, the San Francisco Giants’ amazing comeback in 2014, and the “Greatest Game Ever Played” between the New York Mets and Houston Astros in the 1986 NLCS.
But the NLCS has always given hope for any National League postseason team to make a run to reach the Fall Classic. A wild card team from the National League might not even be one of the division winners, but they can still get to the National League Championship Series. All it takes is heart, talent, and determination. Do you have the heart to sit through our entire NLCS quiz and maybe even ace it?
NLCS
The NLCS, or National League Championship Series, is a best-of-seven-game series that pins the two best teams from the National League against one another in an epic battle to reach the World Series. It is the most important series for any professional baseball player, so they tend to play at levels that once seemed impossible just to help their team get to the promised land.
Because of all the fighting these players put into the NLCS each year, every game slows down and every single pitch becomes more important than the last. It creates an atmosphere of tension, excitement, and pressure that never goes down. All of this is why the greatest moments in MLB postseason history always seem to go down during the NLCS.
