The Brewers narrowly took Game 3 as closer Pete Ladd held off a late rally by the Angels.
In Game 5, the Brewers overcame a late Angels lead to win as Cecil Cooper drove in two runs with an RBI single, clinching the pennant.
The Brewers became the first team in LCS history to come back from a two games to none deficit to win the pennant.
In Game 3, the Cardinals jumped out to a big lead early and maintained it, as Joaquín Andújar and closer Bruce Sutter held the Braves' offense at bay to help the Cardinals win 6–2 and clinch the pennant.
This was the first of three NL pennants won by the Cardinals during the 1980s, as they would win it again in 1985 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and in 1987 against the San Francisco Giants.
This was the first World Series since 1968 to not feature a team from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, or California.
In St. Louis, the Brewers blew out the Cardinals, 10–0, to take Game 1 as Mike Caldwell pitched a three-hit complete-game shutout.
The Cardinals won Game 3 by a 6–2 score to take a 2–1 series lead and regain the home field advantage.
The Cardinals would make two more World Series appearances during the decade, in 1985 and 1987, losing both to the Kansas City Royals and Minnesota Twins respectively.
When the channel tried to petition for the right to do a "local" Braves broadcast of the NLCS,[21] MLB got a Philadelphia federal court[22][23] to ban[24] them on the grounds that as a cable superstation, WTBS could not have a nationwide telecast competing with ABC.