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In Game 2, Tom Glavine pitched a solid game and Billy Wagner earned his second straight save of the postseason as the Mets won 4–1 to go up 2–0 in the series headed to Los Angeles. Game 3 was another offensive duel, which the Mets won 9–5 after blowing a 4–0 lead midway through the game.
This was the last playoff game played in Shea Stadium and the last postseason appearance for the Mets until 2015, six years after Citi Field opened. It was the second and last time that a visiting team won a postseason series at Shea (the other being the Yankees' victory over the Mets in the 2000 World Series ).
Magglio Ordóñez's game-winning walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 4 sealed the pennant for the Tigers. This ALCS marked the 5th different AL pennant winner in as many years (following 2005 with the White Sox , 2004 with the Red Sox , 2003 with the Yankees , and 2002 with the Angels ).
The Major League Baseball postseason is an elimination tournament conducted after the regular season, by which MLB determines its World Series champion for a given year.. The MLB postseason format has evolved throughout its history, with the number of participating teams increasing from two (for its first six-plus decades) to the current 12, with a special format in 2020 having 16.
The 2006 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2006 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Saturday, October 7, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
Below are the full rosters, including the coaching staffs, of all 30 Major League Baseball teams. All teams are allowed up to 40 players on their roster, which doesn't include players on the 60-day injured list.
Locations of NL teams for the 2006–2007 MLB seasons West Central East The 2006 Major League Baseball season ended with the National League 's St. Louis Cardinals winning the World Series with the lowest regular-season victory total (83) in a fully-played season in major league history.
The early success of the franchise was exemplified in 2001 when the Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees in a dramatic seven game World Series in 2001. [5] In the 2002 baseball season , Arizona returned to the playoffs but were defeated by the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Division Series. [ 6 ]