SteadyTumbling

This year’s National League Championship Series is historic in more ways than the comebacks that got the competitors here — the Giants with three straight road wins, the Cardinals with four runs in the ultimate ninth inning. Turns out, this is only the fifth postseason series to pit winners of the previous two World Series.

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via Giants-Cards NLCS an unprecedented matchup | MLB.com:

Three of these five reunions have included the Redbirds:

• 1928 World Series (‘27 champ Yankees vs. ‘26 champ Cardinals).
• 1943 World Series (‘41 champ Yankees vs. ‘42 champ Cardinals).
• 1958 World Series (‘56 champ Yankees vs. ‘57 champ Braves)
• 2005 ALDS (‘04 champ Red Sox vs. ‘05 champ White Sox).
• 2012 NLCS (‘10 champ Giants vs. ‘11 champ Cardinals).