As part of the terms set for the postseason, all games of the Championship Series are played at a neutral site at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

The Braves and Dodgers were the World Champions of the two most recently shortened and completed MLB seasons prior to 2020; 1995 for Atlanta and 1981 for Los Angeles.

[2] The Dodgers finished the regular season 43–17 (.717), won their eighth straight division title, and swept both the Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres to get to the NLCS.

Atlanta was highlighted by a league-leading offense led by four 2020 Silver Slugger Award winners — Freddie Freeman (also the 2020 National League MVP), Ronald Acuña Jr., and offseason free agent signees Marcell Ozuna and Travis d'Arnaud.

In their game against the Miami Marlins on September 9, the Braves scored 29 runs, one short of the MLB record set by the Texas Rangers in 2007.

[6] Due to a temporary realignment of teams based on geographic proximity, the Dodgers and Braves did not play each other in the regular season.

The game was a pitchers' duel between Walker Buehler and Max Fried, both of whom allowed only one run on solo homers (Freddie Freeman for the Braves and Kiké Hernández for the Dodgers).

Mark Melancon, warming up in the bullpen, looked up and caught Albies's ninth-inning home run ball on the fly.

After Ian Anderson and Tyler Matzek started the game with six scoreless innings, the Dodgers came back against the Braves bullpen.

The Dodgers staged a rally in the bottom of the ninth, thanks to a double by Seager, a homer by Max Muncy and a triple by Cody Bellinger.

[17] In Game 3, the Dodgers jumped on Braves starter Kyle Wright early, scoring 11 runs in the first inning with Edwin Ríos hitting a solo homer, Joc Pederson a three-run homer and Max Muncy a grand slam, aided by a lead off overturned out call on Mookie Betts into an infield single (had the call stood, it would have been a shutout inning).

In the bottom of the sixth inning, the Braves broke the game open with six runs, and eleven batters coming to the plate.

A baserunning mistake cost the Braves a run in the bottom of the third inning when Marcell Ozuna was initially ruled to have scored after he safely touched home on a Dansby Swanson sacrifice fly to right that Mookie Betts caught near his feet in spectacular fashion; after an appeal play at third and an instant replay review, Ozuna was ruled out for failing to tag up (i.e., he did not retouch third base after Betts caught the ball) and the run was taken off the board on the inning-ending double play.

[20] In the sixth game of the series, the Dodgers got off to a strong start with three runs in the first off Max Fried, including solo homers by Corey Seager and Justin Turner.

In the fourth, Gonsolin walked the first two batters and then allowed an RBI single to Austin Riley to put the Braves back on top.

However, the damage that inning was limited when, with runners on second and third and nobody out, Justin Turner fielded a Nick Markakis ground ball and alertly threw home to prevent Swanson from scoring; in the ensuing rundown, Turner dove to tag Swanson's shoe and then scrambled to his knees to throw out Riley trying to advance to third for an unusual 5–2–5–6 double play.

For the third straight game, Mookie Betts made a game/series saving catch robbing Freddie Freeman of a home run in the fifth inning.

2020 NLCS (4–3): Los Angeles Dodgers beat Atlanta Braves Cody Bellinger dislocated his shoulder on a celebration near the dugout with Kiké Hernandez after hitting the go-ahead, and eventual game-winning and series clinching, homerun in the seventh inning of Game 7.

The aftermath of his surgery led to a late start to spring training and an overall dismal year from Bellinger in 2021, who also broke his leg in April, injured his hamstring in May, and fractured his ribs in September.