1981 Montreal Expos season
The franchise's first postseason: a division series win over the Phillies and 'Blue Monday'.
The 1981 season was the Montreal Expos' 13th, and the first in which the franchise reached the postseason. The schedule was split into two halves by the 1981 players' strike.
Quick Facts
- Season
- 1981
- League
- National League
- Division
- East
- Ballpark
- Olympic Stadium
- City
- Montreal
- Owners
- Charles Bronfman
- General managers
- John McHale
- Managers
- Dick Williams, Jim Fanning
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Background
In the 1981 National League Division Series the Expos beat the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two: they won Games 1 and 2 at Olympic Stadium, both 3-1, lost twice at Veterans Stadium, and took the deciding Game 5 in Philadelphia 3-0 with Steve Rogers the winning pitcher. In the NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers they led two games to one, then lost Game 4 7-1 and Game 5 2-1 at Olympic Stadium on October 19, 1981, when Rick Monday hit a ninth-inning solo home run, a moment Expos fans call 'Blue Monday'. It was the closest the Expos came to a World Series in Montreal, and the franchise did not reach the postseason again until 2012, by then in Washington.
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