2007 Major League Baseball season

Infobox sports season
title =2007 MLB season
league =Major League Baseball
sport =Baseball
duration =April 1, 2007 – October 28, 2007
season =Regular season
season_champs =
MVP =AL: Alex Rodriguez (NYY)
NL: Jimmy Rollins (PHI)
MVP_link =Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
playoffs =Postseason
playoffs_link =2007 Major League Baseball season#Postseason
conf1 =AL
conf1_link =American League
conf1_champ =Boston Red Sox
conf1_runner-up =Cleveland Indians
conf2 =NL
conf2_link =National League
conf2_champ =Colorado Rockies
conf2_runner-up =Arizona Diamondbacks
finals =World Series
finals_link =2007 World Series
finals_champ =Boston Red Sox
finals_runner-up =Colorado Rockies
finals_MVP =Mike Lowell (BOS)
finals_MVP_link =World Series MVP Award

The 2007 Major League Baseball season was the 107th since the initial co-existence of the American and National Leagues. It began on April 1 with a rematch of the 2006 National League Championship Series; the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets played the first game of the season at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, which was won by the Mets, 6-1. The regular season concluded with seven teams entering the postseason who had failed to reach the 2006 playoffs, with only the New York Yankees returning; a dramatic one-game playoff between the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres; and the largest September collapse for a leading team in baseball history, with the Mets squandering a 7-game lead with 17 to play, losing on the final day of the regular season, and the Philadelphia Phillies capturing the National League East for the first time since 1993. The season ended on October 28, with the Boston Red Sox sweeping the 2007 World Series over the Rockies, four games to none.

A special exhibition game known as the "Civil Rights Game" was played on March 31 in AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee between the Cardinals and the Cleveland Indians to celebrate the history of civil rights in the United States. The 2007 season commemorates the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's entry into the game, breaking the color barrier.

Regular season standings

Postseason

tats

American League

Batting leaders

Pitching leaders

ee also

*2007 in baseball

References