What was the former profession of the man who hosted the 2014 National League Championship Series Game 1 on Fox Sports 1 with Kevin Burkhardt and C.J. Nitkowski?
Major League Baseball outfielder
2014 National League Championship Series
The 2014 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the San Francisco Giants for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2014 World Series.
 The series was the 45th in league history with Fox airing Game 1 and Fox Sports 1 airing Games 2–5 in the United States.
 Game 1 was simulcast on Fox Sports 1 and was hosted by Kevin Burkhardt, Gabe Kapler and C.J. Nitkowski, who offered sabermetric analysis of the game.
Gabe Kapler
Gabriel Stefan "Gabe" Kapler (born July 31, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.
2015 American League Division Series
The 2015 American League Division Series were two best-of-five-game series to determine the participating teams in the 2015 American League Championship Series.
 The three divisional winners (seeded 1-3) and a fourth team—the winner of a one-game Wild Card playoff— played in two series.
 Fox Sports 1 carried the majority of games in the United States, while Sportsnet primarily simulcast Fox Sports 1's coverage in Canada.
 MLB Network had exclusive coverage of Game 3 of the Kansas City Royals–Houston Astros series in both the United States and Canada, and Game 2 of the Toronto Blue Jays–Texas Rangers series in the U.S. only (Sportsnet, co-owned with the Blue Jays by Rogers Communications, simulcast MLB Network's coverage for the latter).
 The ALDS began on October 8 and ran until October 14.
 The Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals had home field advantage in this round of the playoffs.
 With the New York Yankees being eliminated by the Astros in the AL Wild Card Game, this is the first time in ALDS history that all four ALDS teams were expansion teams. Kevin Burkhardt
Kevin Burkhardt (born March 2, 1974) is an American sportscaster.
 Currently one of the play-by-play voices for "The NFL on FOX" and formerly a reporter with SportsNet New York (SNY), Burkhardt was the field reporter during New York Mets telecasts from 2007 to 2014.
 He also called select Mets games during both spring training and the regular season during that time.
 He has been the primary studio host for Major League Baseball (MLB) telecasts on FOX and Fox Sports 1 since the 2015 season. Danny Cox (baseball)
Danny Bradford Cox (born September 21, 1959) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
 He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1983 to 1988, the Philadelphia Phillies from 1991 to 1992, the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992, and then the Toronto Blue Jays from 1993 to 1995, when he retired.
 Over his eleven-year career, Cox won 74, lost 75, recorded a 3.64 ERA, 21 complete games, 5 shutouts and 8 saves.
 He won Game 3 of the 1985 National League Championship Series with the Cardinals trailing 2 games to none.
 Cox pitched well in the 1985 World Series, but earned two no-decisions.
 He pitched a shutout in Game 7 of the 1987 National League Championship Series, and was the winning pitcher in Game 5 of the 1987 World Series, making Cox only the third European born pitcher to start a World Series game. 2012 World Series
The 2012 World Series was the 108th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series.
 The San Francisco Giants, the National League champions, won the best-of-seven playoff in a 4-game sweep over the American League champions Detroit Tigers.
 This marked the Giants' seventh World Series title in franchise history, their second in San Francisco (they won five in New York), and their second in a three-year period (2010–2012).
 Their World Series sweep was the first by a National League team since the Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 series and the first NL sweep not by the Reds since 1963, when the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the New York Yankees.
 The Giants' Pablo Sandoval, who in Game 1 tied a record by hitting three home runs in one World Series game, two off of Tigers' ace Justin Verlander, was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP). Charissa Thompson
Charissa Jean Thompson (born May 4, 1982) is an American television host and sportscaster with Fox Sports 1 and NBC.
 Previously, Thompson worked for ESPN, Versus, as well as for GSN and the Big Ten Network.
 She was the co-host of "SportsNation" along with Marcellus Wiley until her departure from ESPN for Fox Sports in June 2013.
 She became the host of Fox Sports Live on the new Fox Sports 1 network when it debuted on August 17, 2013 (the first day of Fox Sports 1).
 She also was one of the American hosts of Ultimate Beastmaster.
 From 2014 to 2017, Thompson was a co-host on the syndicated entertainment news show "Extra". MLB Whiparound
MLB Whiparound is an American baseball nightly television show on Fox Sports 1 hosted by Chris Myers and Kevin Burkhardt with Mike Hill alternating as a secondary presenter.
 The presenter is joined by either 1 or 2 analysts from the group of Eric Karros, Dontrelle Willis, Pete Rose, Nick Swisher, Alex Rodriguez, A. J. Pierzynski, and Frank Thomas, as well as Fox Sports' Jon Paul Morosi and Ken Rosenthal. 2014 National League Division Series
The National League Division Series was two best-of-five-game series to determine the participating teams in the 2014 National League Championship Series.
 The Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and St. Louis Cardinals (seeded 1–3 based on record, respectively) and San Francisco Giants—played in two series.
 Fox Sports 1 carried most of the games, with two of the games on MLB Network. 2015 American League Championship Series
The 2015 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff contested between the Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals for the American League (AL) pennant and the right to play in the 2015 World Series.
 The series is the 46th in league history.
 The series was broadcast by Fox and Fox Sports 1 in the United States, with Fox airing Game 1 and Fox Sports 1 airing Games 2–6.
 Sportsnet, a property of Blue Jays owner Rogers Communications, simulcast Fox and Fox Sports 1's coverage in Canada.
 Game 1 took place on October 16, and the series ended with the Royals winning Game 6 on October 23.