NLCS All-Time Results

Following the grind of the 162-game regular season, baseball’s relatively short postseason can produce some surprising results.

In 2007, the Colorado Rockies parlayed a red-hot September into a playoff spot, where they promptly rolled through the first two rounds before being swept by the Red Sox in the World Series. A year later, two of the teams favored to make it to the World Series — the Cubs and Angels — were dispatced in the first round, while the lesser regarded Phillies and Dodgers advanced to the National League Championship Series.

Here’s a list of the all-time NLCS winners:

(Best of 7 format)

2008: Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles 1
2007: Colorado 4, Arizona 0
2006: St. Louis 4, New York 3
2005: Houston 4, St. Louis 2
2004: St. Louis 4, Houston 3
2003: Florida 4, Chicago 3
2002: San Francisco 4, St. Louis 1
2001: Arizona 4, Atlanta 1
2000: New York 4, St. Louis 1
1999: Atlanta 4, New York 2
1998: San Diego 4, Atlanta 2
1997: Florida 4, Atlanta 2
1996: Atlanta 4, St. Louis 3
1995: Atlanta 4, Cincinnati 0
1994: Not Held
1993: Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 2
1992: Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 3
1991: Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 3
1990: Cincinnati 4, Pittsburgh 2
1989: San Francisco 4, Chicago 1
1988: Los Angeles 4, New York 3
1987: St. Louis 4, San Francisco 3
1986: New York 4, Houston 2
1985: St. Louis 4, Los Angeles 2

(Best of 5 format)

1984: San Diego 3, Chicago 2
1983: Philadelphia 3, Los Angeles 1
1982: St. Louis 3, Atlanta 0
1981: Los Angeles 3, Montreal 2
1980: Philadelphia 3, Houston 2
1979: Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 0
1978: Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 1
1977: Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 1
1976: Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 0
1975: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 0
1974: Los Angeles 3, Pittsburgh 1
1973: New York 3, Cincinnati 2
1972: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2
1971: Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco 1
1970: Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 0
1969: New York 3, Atlanta 0

Source: MLB.com