NBC Sports: MLB 1981- NLDS Gm 1 Philadelphia Phillies @ Montreal Expos: Full Game

Source:NBC Sports– the 1981 NLDS at Montreal Olympic Stadium.

“1981 NLDS Game 1 – Phillies vs Expos”

From Classic Phillies TV

I wish MLB stuck with the 1981 playoff format with the divisional series and extra wildcards. Five-six teams in each league.

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JS Milla: MLB 1981- ‘The Montreal Expos Win A Playoff Series!’

Source:JS Milla– The Montreal Expos, winning their only playoff series ever.

Source:The Daily Times

“Let’s say it now: The Montreal Expos were winners. True, they never won a pennant, and they never got to play in the Serie Mondiale thanks to an errant fastball in 1981 and a called (player’s) strike in 1994. But the Expos won a heckuva lot of games in the 80s and even the 90s. And they even won a playoff series—the 1981 National League Division Series—thanks to some terrific pitching from Steve “Cy” Rogers, who beat Steve “Lefty” Carlton twice in one week, giving up one run in 17 2/3 innings of work.

If Major League Baseball had introduced the modern wildcard playoff format in the 1970s, you would have seen half-a-dozen additional playoff appearances from the Expos…and perhaps more celebrations like this one from October 11, 1981.”

From JS Milla

The Montreal Expos winning a playoff series in the expanded MLB playoff format in 1981. The Montreal Expos were winners in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, and to a certain extent in the early 1990s. And this guy is right that if the wildcard was around back then and you have 5 teams from each league make the playoffs every year. the Expos would’ve made several more playoff appearances in the 1980s.

But that could be said for a lot of other MLB franchises: the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, etc. So I don’t think that alone makes the Expos special.

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