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St. Louis Cardinals 4, Detroit Tigers 1 · 2006-10-21 to 2006-10-27 · 5 games · attendance 224,633 · season overview

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Champion · 10th title

St. Louis Cardinals
Manager Tony LaRussa

Runner-up

Detroit Tigers
Manager Jim Leyland

Series MVP

David Eckstein

Ballparks

Busch Stadium III
Comerica Park

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	2006-10-21	St. Louis Cardinals 7 at Detroit Tigers 2	1–0	Comerica Park	42,479	Anthony Reyes	Justin Verlander
2	2006-10-22	St. Louis Cardinals 1 at Detroit Tigers 3	1–1	Comerica Park	42,533	Kenny Rogers	Jeff Weaver	Todd Jones
3	2006-10-24	Detroit Tigers 0 at St. Louis Cardinals 5	2–1	Busch Stadium III	46,513	Chris Carpenter	Nate Robertson
4	2006-10-26	Detroit Tigers 4 at St. Louis Cardinals 5	3–1	Busch Stadium III	46,470	Adam Wainwright	Joel Zumaya
5	2006-10-27	Detroit Tigers 2 at St. Louis Cardinals 4	4–1	Busch Stadium III	46,638	Jeff Weaver	Justin Verlander	Adam Wainwright

The players

St. Louis Cardinals

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
David Eckstein	5	22	3	8	3	0	4	1	1	0	.364
Scott Rolen	5	19	5	8	3	1	2	2	4	0	.421
Yadier Molina	5	17	3	7	2	0	1	3	1	0	.412
Jim Edmonds	5	17	1	4	2	0	4	3	8	0	.235
Albert Pujols	5	15	3	3	1	1	2	5	3	0	.200
Ronnie Belliard	3	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000
So Taguchi	4	11	3	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	.182
Preston Wilson	5	10	1	2	0	0	1	3	2	0	.200
Chris Duncan	3	8	1	1	1	0	1	2	3	0	.125
Juan Encarnacion	3	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	.000
Aaron Miles	2	6	2	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	.167
Scott Spiezio	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000
Chris Carpenter	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Jeff Weaver	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Jeff Suppan	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
John Rodriguez	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jeff Weaver	2	2	1–1	0	13.0	13	5	4	2	14	2	2.77
Anthony Reyes	1	1	1–0	0	8.0	4	2	2	1	4	1	2.25
Chris Carpenter	1	1	1–0	0	8.0	3	0	0	0	6	0	0.00
Jeff Suppan	1	1	0–0	0	6.0	8	3	3	2	4	1	4.50
Adam Wainwright	3	0	1–0	1	3.0	2	0	0	1	5	0	0.00
Braden Looper	3	0	0–0	0	2.1	1	1	1	0	1	0	3.86
Josh Kinney	2	0	0–0	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.00
Tyler Johnson	2	0	0–0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00
Randy Flores	1	0	0–0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Brad Thompson	1	0	0–0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00

Detroit Tigers

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Curtis Granderson	5	21	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	7	0	.095
Craig Monroe	5	20	3	3	1	0	2	2	1	5	0	.150
Ivan Rodriguez	5	19	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	.158
Magglio Ordonez	5	19	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	.105
Sean Casey	5	17	2	9	2	0	2	5	0	2	0	.529
Carlos Guillen	5	17	2	6	1	1	0	2	3	4	1	.353
Brandon Inge	5	17	0	6	2	0	0	1	1	6	0	.353
Placido Polanco	5	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000
Ramon Santiago	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200
Alexis Gomez	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Jeremy Bonderman	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Justin Verlander	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Omar Infante	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Marcus Thames	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Nate Robertson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Justin Verlander	2	2	0–2	0	11.0	12	10	7	5	12	2	5.73
Kenny Rogers	1	1	1–0	0	8.0	2	0	0	3	5	0	0.00
Jeremy Bonderman	1	1	0–0	0	5.1	6	2	2	4	4	0	3.38
Nate Robertson	1	1	0–1	0	5.0	5	2	2	3	3	0	3.60
Fernando Rodney	4	0	0–0	0	4.0	5	4	2	4	5	0	4.50
Joel Zumaya	3	0	0–1	0	3.0	1	3	1	3	3	0	3.00
Todd Jones	2	0	0–0	1	1.2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0.00
Jason Grilli	2	0	0–0	0	1.2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.00
Wil Ledezma	2	0	0–0	0	1.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0.00
Zach Miner	1	0	0–0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Jamie Walker	1	0	0–0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00

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