2006 Major League Baseball season
The MLB season 2006, the 105th season of Major League Baseball, was opened on 2 April 2006 with the game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox, which the White Sox won 10-4.
During the regular season, 30 teams fight each in 162 games for a place in the play-offs. Each team will play 142 Inner League and 20 Inter League games. The start of the 2007 World Series will be the end of October. Defending champions are the St. Louis Cardinals, the World Series in 2006 could decide for themselves.
The MLB All- Star Game in 2006 took place on 11 July 2006 at PNC Park, home to the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh and ended in a 3-2 victory for the American League. The winning league has home advantage in the first few games of the World Series.
- 3.1 Mode and participants
- 3.2 Overview
- 3.3 Division Series 3.3.1 American League Division Series
- 3.3.2 National League Division Series
- 3.4.1 American League Championship Series
- 3.4.2 National League Championship Series
- 4.1 Hitting
- 4.2 pitching
- 5.2 Player of the Month
- 5.3 Pitcher of the Month
- 5.4 Rookie of the Month
Participating teams
Regular Season
Brief explanation gaming operations and table structure
The AL and the NL are each divided for the operation of gambling in three divisions. The assignment is based on regional criteria: East, Central and West Division.
The table placements are responsible for reaching the postseason: the three respective division winners and the second-best winning percentage after the team played in three rounds of the championship in the American or National League from. The respective champions then meet each other in the World Series.
The ranking of teams in the table above it during the season basically from the current ratio of wins to games overall as so-called Winning Percentage. The reason for this is the uneven distribution of games on the calendar, so that some teams have since played three or more games more than others. Thus, for example, the balance of a team A with 15 victories and 15 defeats ( .500 expressed as the corresponding percentage ) for exactly equivalent considered with the balance of a team B, which scored 16 victories and 16 defeats at the same time. For the final tables but this is irrelevant, since the end of the season all teams have played since 1961 usual 162 season games. Therefore, disclosure of victories and defeats ranges ( Draws are uncommon ).
By entering GB (Games Behind ) is documented, how late a tracker on the table is first. This is expressed, how many wins the tracker at the same time defeat the leader theoretically needed to achieve equal status. The specification is expressed precisely to 0.5 GB Games: If, for example, Team A 10 wins and 5 losses, Team B, however, 9 wins and 5 losses, a victory would already own ( without a loss of A) lead to table tie.
Supernatant after the regular season
American League
National League
Colored green are the teams that failed to qualify for the postseason. PS = Postseason; Number = ranking on seedings W = Wins ( Win ), L = Losses ( Losses ),% = Winning Percentage, GB = Games Behind ( behind leaders: number of necessary defeats the leader at the same time own victory )
Postseason
Mode and participants
From the beginning of October, the Division Series and then the respective Championship Series will be played. For this first meeting, the two Wild Card winners in a game on each other. The three division winners and the wild-card team meeting in two Division Series encounters in the best-of -five successive mode ( ALDS or NLDS = American or National League Division Series). Then the winner of the Division Series encounters play in the best- of-seven procedures the respective League Champion ( ALCS and NLCS = American or National League Championship Series ).
Overview
In the postseason, it came to the following conclusions:
ALDS, NLDS ( Division Series ): Best -of -Five; ALCS, NLCS (Championship Series): Best -of -Seven
Division Series
American League Division Series
National League Division Series
Championship Series
American League Championship Series
For the ALCS MVP Placido Polanco (DET ) has been selected.
National League Championship Series
For the NLCS MVP Jeff Suppan (STL ) was chosen.
World Series
It stood opposite the champion of the American League, the Detroit Tigers and the champion of the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals. Winner of the " Best of Seven " series were the St. Louis Cardinals in just five games. The Cardinals won Games 1, 3, 4, and 5 The Detroit Tigers could decide only 2 game for themselves. For the World Series MVP David Eckstein was chosen.