2006 Nippon Professional Baseball season

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This article is about the 2006 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 2006 in baseball.

In 2006 the Nippon Professional Baseball season ended with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Pacific League defeat the Chunichi Dragons of the Central League in the Japan Series.

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[edit] Regular season

[edit] Standings

[edit] Central League

Central League G W L T Pct. GB
Chunichi Dragons 146 87 54 5 0.617 --
Hanshin Tigers 146 84 58 4 0.592 3.5
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 146 70 73 3 0.490 18
Yomiuri Giants 146 65 79 2 0.451 23.5
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 146 62 79 5 0.440 25
Yokohama BayStars 146 58 84 4 0.408 29.5

[edit] Pacific League

Pacific League G W L T Pct. GB
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 136 82 54 0 0.603 --
Seibu Lions 136 80 54 2 0.597 1
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 136 75 56 5 0.573 4.5
Chiba Lotte Marines 136 65 70 1 0.481 16.5
Orix Buffaloes 136 52 81 3 0.391 28.5
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 136 47 85 4 0.356 33

[edit] Leaders

[edit] Batting

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[edit] Pitching

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[edit] Post season

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[edit] Japan Series

In the 2006 Japan Series, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters defeated the Chunichi Dragons 4 games to 1 in 5 games.

After the Japan Series, the Fighters moved on to the Asian Series, a series which determins the champion of the four major Asian baseball leagues.

[edit] Awards

The Sawamura Award, the award given to the top pitcher in Japan, was given to pitcher Kazumi Saito of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He had a win-loss record of 18-5, 205 strikeouts, and an ERA of 1.75 in 201.0 innings, winning the Pacific League's pitching triple crown.

[edit] Best Nine Awards

Central League

Position Player Team
P Kenshin Kawakami Chunichi Dragons
C Akihiro Yano Hanshin Tigers
1B Tyrone Woods Chunichi Dragons
2B Masahiro Araki Chunichi Dragons
3B Akinori Iwamura Tokyo Yakult Swallows
SS Hirokazu Ibata Chunichi Dragons
OF Norichika Aoki Tokyo Yakult Swallows
OF Kosuke Fukudome Chunichi Dragons
OF Tomoaki Kanemoto Hanshin Tigers

Pacific League

Position Player Team
P Kazumi Saitoh Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
C Tomoya Satozaki Chiba Lotte Marines
1B Michihiro Ogasawara Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
2B Kensuke Tanaka Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
3B Jose Fernandez Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
SS Munenori Kawasaki Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
OF Atsunori Inaba Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
OF Nobuhiko Matsunaka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
OF Kazuhiro Wada Seibu Lions
DH Fernando Seguignol Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

[edit] Gold Gloves

Central League

Position Player Team
P Kenshin Kawakami Chunichi Dragons
C Motonobu Tanishige Chunichi Dragons
1B Andy Sheets Hanshin Tigers
2B Masahiro Araki Chunichi Dragons
3B Akinori Iwamura Tokyo Yakult Swallows
SS Hirokazu Ibata Chunichi Dragons
OF Norihiro Akahoshi Hanshin Tigers
OF Norichika Aoki Tokyo Yakult Swallows
OF Kosuke Fukudome Chunichi Dragons

Pacific League

Position Player Team
P Daisuke Matsuzaka Seibu Lions
C Tomoya Satozaki Chiba Lotte Marines
1B Michihiro Ogasawara Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
2B Kensuke Tanaka Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
3B Toshiaki Imae Chiba Lotte Marines
SS Munenori Kawasaki Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
OF Atsunori Inaba Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
OF Hichori Morimoto Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
OF Tsuyoshi Shinjo Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

[edit] References

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