2006 MLB Japan All-Star Series

The 2006 MLB Japan All-Star Series was the tenth edition of the championship held in a best-of-five series format between the All-Star teams from Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). MLB won the series by 5-0-0 and Ryan Howard was named the series MVP.

Results

Championship

Game	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
1	MLB All-Stars	03-02	NPB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
2	MLB All-Stars	08-06	NPB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
3	MLB All-Stars	11-04	NPB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
4	MLB All-Stars	07-02	NPB All-Stars	Osaka Dome
5	MLB All-Stars	05-03	NPB All-Stars	Fukuoka Dome

Rosters

MLB All-Stars roster

Pitchers 61 Bronson Arroyo 45 Érik Bédard 39 Chris Capuano 40 Brian Fuentes 52 Clay Hensley 56 Ray King 41 John Lackey 33 John Maine 36 Mike Myers 36 Joe Nathan 62 Scot Shields 32 Chris Young

Catchers 02 Kenji Johjima 07 Joe Mauer 23 Brian Schneider Infielders 15 Rafael Furcal 06 Ryan Howard 15 Tadahito Iguchi 35 Lyle Overbay 07 José Reyes 26 Chase Utley 05 David Wright

Oufielders 23 Jermaine Dye 09 Chone Figgins 02 Bill Hall 25 Andruw Jones 11 Jacque Jones Coaching Staff 15 Bruce Bochy 14 Manny Acta 23 Julio Franco 31 Ramón Henderson 41 Curt Young

NPB All-Stars roster

Pitchers 14 Takahiro Mahara 15 Kazuo Fukumori 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi 20 Katsuhiro Nagakawa 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 21 Tsuyoshi Wada 29 Kei Igawa 11 Yu Darvish 29 Tomoya Yagi 16 Hideaki Wakui 29 Koji Mitsui 13 Hisashi Ogura

Catchers 10 Shinnosuke Abe 22 Tomoya Satozaki 27 Takeshi Hidaka Infielders 02 Michihiro Ogasawara 09 Atsushi Fujimoto 52 Munenori Kawasaki 25 Shuichi Murata 07 Tomohiro Nioka 09 Kazuya Fukuura 04 Yosuke Takasu 25 Takahiro Arai

Outfielders 23 Norichika Aoki 31 Yuki Yoshimura 46 Teppei Tsuchiya 07 Naoyuki Ohmura Coaching Staff ?? Katsuya Nomura ?? Nobuhiro Takashiro ?? Takao Obana ?? Shunji Nishi