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2006 AL Championship Series (4-0): Detroit Tigers (95-67) over Oakland Athletics (93-69)

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WS: STL-DET / ALCS: DET-OAK / NLCS: STL-NYM / Div. Series: DET-NYY / OAK-MIN / NYM-LAD / STL-SDP
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Series Games

Game 1 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  October 10, 2006 at NetworkAssoc (Oakland Athletics)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Detroit Tigers               0  0  2    3  0  0    0  0  0     5 11  1
    Oakland Athletics            0  0  0    0  0  0    0  1  0     1  8  1

    PITCHERS: DET - Robertson, Rodney (6), Zumaya (8), Jones (9)
              OAK - Zito, Gaudin (4), Kennedy (6), Calero (7), Blanton (8)

               WP - Nate Robertson
	       LP - Barry Zito
             SAVE - none

   HOME RUNS: DET - Inge, Rodriguez
              OAK - none

  ATTENDANCE: 35,655

Game 2 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  October 11, 2006 at NetworkAssoc (Oakland Athletics)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Detroit Tigers               0  1  0    4  0  2    0  0  1     8 11  0
    Oakland Athletics            1  0  2    0  0  1    1  0  0     5 11  1

    PITCHERS: DET - Verlander, Ledezma (6), Grilli (7), Rodney (8), Jones (9)
              OAK - Loaiza, Gaudin (7), Kennedy (7), Street (9)

               WP - Justin Verlander
	       LP - Esteban Loaiza
             SAVE - Todd Jones

   HOME RUNS: DET - Gomez, Granderson
              OAK - Bradley (2), Chavez

  ATTENDANCE: 36,168

Game 3 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  October 13, 2006 at Comerica Pk (Detroit Tigers)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Oakland Athletics            0  0  0    0  0  0    0  0  0     0  2  0
    Detroit Tigers               2  0  0    0  1  0    0  0  x     3  6  0

    PITCHERS: OAK - Harden, Gaudin (6), Kennedy (7), Calero (8)
              DET - Rogers, Rodney (8), Jones (9)

               WP - Kenny Rogers
	       LP - Rich Harden
             SAVE - Todd Jones

   HOME RUNS: OAK - none
              DET - Monroe

  ATTENDANCE: 41,669

Game 4 / Box Score and Play-By-Play

  October 14, 2006 at Comerica Pk (Detroit Tigers)

                                 1  2  3    4  5  6    7  8  9     R  H  E
                                 -  -  -    -  -  -    -  -  -     -  -  -
    Oakland Athletics            2  0  0    1  0  0    0  0  0     3  8  1
    Detroit Tigers               0  0  0    0  2  1    0  0  3     6 11  0

    PITCHERS: OAK - Haren, Kennedy (6), Calero (7), Street (7)
              DET - Bonderman, Walker (7), Grilli (8), Ledezma (8)

               WP - Wilfredo Ledezma
	       LP - Huston Street
             SAVE - none

   HOME RUNS: OAK - Payton
              DET - Ordonez (2)

  ATTENDANCE: 42,967

Series MVP - Placido Polanco

Series Batting Stats

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Detroit Tigers

                                          SERIES STATS                   |      REGULAR SEASON       
 Player              G  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO  BA    OBP   SLG  SB |  AB  H  HR  BA     OPS  SB
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
*Sean Casey          1   3  0  1  0  0  0   0  1  0  .333  .500  .333  0 |+397 108  8  .272  .724   0
*Alexis Gomez        3   9  1  4  0  0  1   4  0  2  .444  .444  .778  0 | 103  28  1  .272  .706   4
*Curtis Granderson   4  15  4  5  2  0  1   2  4  2  .333  .474  .667  1 | 596 155 19  .260  .773   8
#Carlos Guillen      4  16  1  3  1  0  0   0  1  4  .188  .235  .250  0 | 543 174 19  .320  .919  20
 Omar Infante        1   2  0  1  0  0  0   0  1  1  .500  .667  .500  1 | 224  62  4  .277  .740   3
 Brandon Inge        4  12  3  4  1  0  1   3  3  3  .333  .467  .667  0 | 542 137 27  .253  .776   7
 Craig Monroe        4  14  5  6  2  0  1   4  3  4  .429  .529  .786  0 | 541 138 28  .255  .783   2
 Magglio Ordonez     4  17  3  4  0  0  2   6  2  2  .235  .316  .588  0 | 593 177 24  .298  .827   1
#Neifi Perez         1   4  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 |+301  73  2  .243  .576   1
 Placido Polanco     4  17  2  9  1  0  0   2  2  1  .529  .579  .588  0 | 461 136  4  .295  .693   1
 Ivan Rodriguez      4  16  2  2  0  0  1   1  1  4  .125  .176  .313  0 | 547 164 13  .300  .769   8
#Ramon Santiago      3   7  0  0  0  0  0   0  1  0  .000  .125  .000  0 |  80  18  0  .225  .507   2
 Marcus Thames       2   5  1  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 | 348  89 26  .256  .882   1
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
 Total               4 137 22 39  7  0  7  22 19 25  .285  .372  .489  2 |        203  .274  .777  60

    * - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

Oakland Athletics

                                          SERIES STATS                   |      REGULAR SEASON       
 Player              G  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO  BA    OBP   SLG  SB |  AB  H  HR  BA     OPS  SB
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
#Milton Bradley      4  18  4  9  2  0  2   5  0  2  .500  .500  .944  0 | 351  97 14  .276  .817  10
*Eric Chavez         4  13  1  3  1  0  1   2  2  4  .231  .333  .538  0 | 485 117 22  .241  .786   3
#D'Angelo Jimenez    4  12  0  2  0  0  0   0  0  2  .167  .167  .167  0 |+ 71  13  1  .183  .601   0
 Jason Kendall       4  17  0  5  0  0  0   0  2  2  .294  .368  .294  0 | 552 163  1  .295  .709  11
#Bobby Kielty        2   2  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  .000  .000  .000  0 | 270  73  8  .270  .770   2
 Mark Kiger          2   0  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0                    0 |   0   0  0               0
*Mark Kotsay         4  16  3  4  2  0  0   0  2  3  .250  .333  .375  0 | 502 138  7  .275  .718   6
#Adam Melhuse        1   1  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  1  .000  .000  .000  0 | 128  28  4  .219  .648   0
 Jay Payton          4  14  1  4  2  0  1   2  1  2  .286  .333  .643  0 | 557 165 10  .296  .743   8
 Marco Scutaro       4  15  0  1  0  0  0   0  0  3  .067  .067  .067  0 | 365  97  5  .266  .747   5
#Nick Swisher        4  10  0  1  0  0  0   0  5  5  .100  .400  .100  0 | 556 141 35  .254  .865   1
 Frank Thomas        4  13  0  0  0  0  0   0  2  4  .000  .133  .000  0 | 466 126 39  .270  .926   0
+-------------------+-+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+--+-----+-----+-----+---+----+---+--+-----+-----+---+
 Total               4 131  9 29  7  0  4   9 14 28  .221  .297  .366  0 |        175  .260  .752  61

    * - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, ? - unknown, else - bats right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

Series Pitching Stats

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Detroit Tigers

                        SERIES STATS                     |     REGULAR SEASON           
 Player              G  ERA   W-L SV CG  IP   H ER BB SO |  W-L   IP  ERA   WHIP  SO SV 
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
*Kenny Rogers        1   0.00 1-0  0  0  7.3  2  0  2  6 | 17-8  204  3.84  1.26  99   
 Jeremy Bonderman    1   4.05 0-0  0  0  6.7  6  3  2  3 | 14-8  214  4.08  1.30 202   
 Justin Verlander    1   6.75 1-0  0  0  5.3  7  4  1  6 | 17-9  186  3.63  1.33 124   
*Nate Robertson      1   0.00 1-0  0  0  5.0  6  0  3  4 | 13-13 209  3.84  1.31 137   
 Fernando Rodney     3   0.00 0-0  0  0  3.7  1  0  1  4 |  7-4   72  3.52  1.19  65  7
 Todd Jones          3   0.00 0-0  2  0  3.0  3  0  1  2 |  2-6   64  3.94  1.27  28 37
*Wilfredo Ledezma    2   3.38 1-0  0  0  2.7  2  1  1  1 |  3-3   60  3.58  1.38  39   
 Joel Zumaya         1   9.00 0-0  0  0  1.0  1  1  0  0 |  6-3   83  1.94  1.18  97  1
 Jason Grilli        2   0.00 0-0  0  0  1.0  1  0  3  1 |  2-3   62  4.21  1.39  31   
*Jamie Walker        1   0.00 0-0  0  0  0.3  0  0  0  1 |  0-1   48  2.81  1.15  37   
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Total                   2.25 4-0  2  0 36.0 29  9 14 28 |            3.84 1.320   

    * - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

Oakland Athletics

                        SERIES STATS                     |     REGULAR SEASON           
 Player              G  ERA   W-L SV CG  IP   H ER BB SO |  W-L   IP  ERA   WHIP  SO SV 
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Esteban Loaiza      1  10.50 0-1  0  0  6.0  9  7  1  5 | 11-9  155  4.89  1.42  97   
 Rich Harden         1   4.76 0-1  0  0  5.7  5  3  5  4 |  4-0   47  4.24  1.22  49   
 Danny Haren         1   5.40 0-0  0  0  5.0  7  3  2  7 | 14-13 223  4.12  1.21 176   
*Barry Zito          1  12.27 0-1  0  0  3.7  7  5  3  0 | 16-10 221  3.83  1.40 151   
*Joe Kennedy         4   0.00 0-0  0  0  3.7  2  0  2  2 |  4-1   35  2.31  1.34  29  1
 Huston Street       2  10.80 0-1  0  0  3.3  4  4  0  3 |  4-4   71  3.31  1.09  67 37
 Chad Gaudin         3   0.00 0-0  0  0  3.3  2  0  3  1 |  4-2   64  3.09  1.45  36  2
 Joe Blanton         1   0.00 0-0  0  0  2.0  0  0  2  2 | 16-12 194  4.82  1.54 107   
 Kiko Calero         3   0.00 0-0  0  0  2.0  3  0  1  1 |  3-2   58  3.41  1.28  67  2
+-------------------+-+------+---+--+--+----+--+--+--+---+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
 Total                   5.71 0-4  0  0 34.7 39 22 19 25 |            4.21 1.410   

    * - throws left-handed, ? - unknown, else - throws right-handed

A + before season totals indicates the player was with multiple teams this year.

WS: STL-DET / ALCS: DET-OAK / NLCS: STL-NYM / Div. Series: DET-NYY / OAK-MIN / NYM-LAD / STL-SDP

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