2006 MLB Japan All-Star Series
# 2006 MLB Japan All-Star Series

The 2006 MLB Japan All-Star Series was the tenth edition of the championship, a best-of-five series between the All-Star teams from Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). After the 2006 championship, the series became defunct.

MLB won the series by 5–0–0 and Ryan Howard was named MVP.

## Results

Championship

| Game | Winning Team | Score | Losing Team | Location |
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| 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

### NPB All-Stars roster

| Pitchers 14 Takahiro Mahara (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) 15 Kazuo Fukumori (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Chiba Lotte Marines) 20 Katsuhiro Nagakawa (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) 26 Tetsuya Utsumi (Yomiuri Giants) 21 Tsuyoshi Wada (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) 29 Kei Igawa (Hanshin Tigers) 11 Yu Darvish (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 29 Tomoya Yagi (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 16 Hideaki Wakui (Seibu Lions) 29 Koji Mitsui (Seibu Lions) 13 Hisashi Ogura (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) | Catchers 10 Shinnosuke Abe (Yomiuri Giants) 22 Tomoya Satozaki (Chiba Lotte Marines) 27 Takeshi Hidaka (Orix Buffaloes) Infielders 02 Michihiro Ogasawara (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 09 Atsushi Fujimoto (Hanshin Tigers) 52 Munenori Kawasaki (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) 25 Shuichi Murata (Yomiuri Giants) 07 Tomohiro Nioka (Yomiuri Giants) 09 Kazuya Fukuura (Chiba Lotte Marines) 04 Yosuke Takasu (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) 25 Takahiro Arai (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) | Outfielders 23 Norichika Aoki (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) 31 Yuki Yoshimura (Yokohama BayStars) 46 Teppei Tsuchiya (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) 07 Naoyuki Ohmura (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) Coaching Staff 19 Katsuya Nomura (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) 81 Nobuhiro Takashiro (Chunichi Dragons) 87 Takao Obana (Yomiuri Giants) 80 Shunji Nishi (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) |
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