2014 Major League Baseball season
The MLB 2014 season, the 113th season of Major League Baseball, was opened on March 22, 2014 with the opening game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Sydney, Australia, which won the Dodgers 3-1.
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 World Series 2014 will be the end of October. Defending champions are the Boston Red Sox, the 2013 World Series were won.
The MLB All- Star Game 2014 will be held on July 15, 2014 Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis. The winning league has home advantage in the World Series.
- 3.1 Brief explanation gaming operations and table structure
- 3.2 season during the regular season 3.2.1 American League 3.2.1.1 April
- 3.2.1.2 May
- 3.2.1.3 June to All-Star Break
- 3.2.1.4 Second half of July and August
- 3.2.1.5 September
- 3.2.2.1 April
- 3.2.2.2 May
- 3.2.2.3 June to All-Star Break
- 3.2.2.4 Second half of July and August
- 3.2.2.5 September
- 4.1 Mode and participants
- 4.2 scheme
- 5.1 Hitting
- 5.2 pitching
- 6.2 Player of the Month
- 6.3 Pitcher of the Month
- 6.4 Rookie of the Month
Participating teams
For the 2014 season, no changes in participating franchises or leagues and division assignments were made by the MLB.
* Sorts according to the previous year's rankings in the respective divisions. Colored green are the teams that in the previous year could qualify for the postseason itself.
Spring Training
On 21 February 2014, the pre-season of the MLB, the so-called spring training, in which the teams in the Grapefruit League and test the new Cactus League players, but also upload their target original formations begins. The last game of spring training takes place on 30 March 2014.
Tables of Spring Training 2014
The blue marked in the tables of the Cactus and Grapefruit League teams are members of the National League, the play highlighted in red in the American League. As of 3/30/2014.
W = Wins ( Win ), L = Loss ( Loss ) % = Winning Percentage, GB = Games Behind ( behind leaders: number of necessary defeats the leader at the same time own victory )
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 game operation is running from 22 March to 28 September 2014.
The table placements are responsible for reaching the postseason: the three respective division winners and the winning percentage after two other best teams 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 season all the 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) leading to table tie.
In order to develop during the season, at least to indicate the table positions of the teams in late April and late May were held. Another milestone was the All-Star break, the break in the play mode at the All -Star Game is; similar to the autumn championship in football is so middle of the season, an intermediate state determined. The last intermediate information is rather arbitrary, based on the date of 31 August to assess approximately four weeks before the end of the season to the extent to which each division was already decided in advance on that date or, where applicable, has been replaced at this point leading.
Season during the regular season
American League
April
As of April 30 resulted in the American League the following placements:
PS = Postseason; Number = rank on seedings and WC = Wild Card ( best two teams after the division winners ) 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 )
May
As of May 31 resulted in the American League the following placements:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. April, ▼ deterioration prev. April, otherwise see AL April
June to All-Star Break
At the All-Star break (15 July 2014) following placements resulted in the AL:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. May ▼ deterioration prev. May Notes: see AL April
Second half of July and August
As of August 31 resulted in the AL following placements:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. July ▼ deterioration prev. July Notes: see AL April
September
The tables in the American League to show the following picture:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. August ▼ deterioration prev. August Notes: see AL April
National League
April
As of April 30 resulted in the National League the following placements:
Explanations: see AL
May
As of May 31 resulted in the National League the following placements:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. April, ▼ deterioration prev. April, otherwise see AL April
June to All-Star Break
At the All-Star break (15 July 2014) following placements resulted in the NL:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. May ▼ deterioration prev. May otherwise see AL April
Second half of July and August
As of August 31 resulted in the NL following placements:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. July ▼ deterioration prev. July, otherwise see AL April
September
The tables in the National League show the following picture:
Arrows: ▲ improvement prev. July ▼ deterioration prev. August, otherwise see AL April
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 winner of the wild -card game found 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 ).
The wild-card winners play against the best division winner, so the team with the most wins in the regular season games. In contrast to previous years, he can also play against the winner of his own division.
Scheme
In the postseason, it came to the following conclusions:
Results Wild Card games: a game; ALDS, NLDS ( Division Series ): Best of Five; ALCS, NLCS (Championship Series), World Series: Best -of -Seven