This was also the last edition of the postseason to feature both teams from the San Francisco Bay Area, as the Oakland Athletics are moving to Las Vegas.

The postseason began on September 30, and ended on October 29, with the Giants narrowly defeating the Royals in seven games in the 2014 World Series.

They last met in the 1971 NLCS, which the Pirates won in four games en route to a World Series title.

The Pirates returned to the postseason again the next year, but fell in the Wild Card game again to the Chicago Cubs.

The Royals stole Game 1 in Anaheim after an extra-inning grind, thanks to a go-ahead solo home run from Mike Moustakas in the top of the eleventh.

Game 2 was yet another extra-inning grind, but the Royals prevailed in the top of the eleventh again thanks to a go-ahead two-run home run from Eric Hosmer.

Baltimore's Zack Britton secured the win for the Orioles in the top of the ninth, and the O's were now up 2–0 in the series headed to Detroit.

However, Joe Panik of the Giants worked a walk and prompted Matt Williams controversially replaced Zimmermann with Drew Storen to get the last out.

However, Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval managed to continue the rally with a single and RBI double to tie the game to force extra innings after Posey was narrowly thrown out at the plate as the go-ahead run on Sandoval's double.

The Nationals would return to the postseason in 2016, where they were knocked out by the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games again in the NLDS.

In Game 2, Terrance Gore, Alcides Escobar, and Lorenzo Cain helped the Royals pull away from the Orioles in the top of the ninth to go up 2–0 in the series headed to Kansas City.

The Royals would win the AL pennant again the next year, defeating the Toronto Blue Jays in six games en route to a World Series title.

The 2014 ALCS started a streak of playoff success for Kansas City-based teams over their Baltimore counterparts, as the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs would defeat the Baltimore Ravens in the 2023–24 AFC Championship, and the Royals would once again sweep the Orioles in the Wild Card round of the 2024 postseason.

Game 5 remained tied at three going into the bottom of the ninth, until San Francisco's Travis Ishikawa won the pennant for the Giants with a walk-off three-run home run.

When the series moved back to Kansas City for Game 6, the Royals blew out the Giants in a 10–0 shutout thanks to a stellar pitching performance by Yordano Ventura, handing the Giants their most lopsided defeat in the Fall Classic since Game 5 of the 1951 World Series.

Tim Hudson started for the Giants and lasted just over an inning, as he allowed two runs before giving way to veteran southpaw Jeremy Affeldt.

Bumgarner shut out the Royals' offense the rest of the game, and while the Royals had a runner on third in the bottom of the ninth, the Giants prevailed due to a pop-up foul ball by Kansas City's Salvador Perez, which was caught by Pablo Sandoval to clinch the title for the Giants.

The Giants returned to the postseason in 2016 in the hope of keeping their dynasty alive, but they would fall to the eventual World Series champion Chicago Cubs in the NLDS.

The new deals also maintained the Fox broadcast network's streak of airing consecutive World Series since 2000.