2007 Central League Climax Series

2007 Central League Climax Series
First stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Chunichi Dragons  (2) Hiromitsu Ochiai 78–64–2 (.549), 1.5 GB Hanshin Tigers  (0) Akinobu Okada 74–66–4 (.529), 4.5 GB
Dates	October 13–14
Second stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Chunichi Dragons (3) Hiromitsu Ochiai 78–64–2 (.549), 1.5 GB Yomiuri Giants  (0) Tatsunori Hara 80–63–1 (.559), 1.5 GA
Dates	October 18–20
Climax Series 2008  → 2007 PLCS                 2007 Japan Series

The 2007 Central League Climax Series (CLCS) was the opening round of the Central League side of the 2007 NPB postseason to end the 2007 Nippon Professional Baseball season. The inaugural edition consisted of two consecutive series of baseball games, in which Stage 1 was a best-of-three series and Stage 2 was a best-of-five. The winner of the series advanced to the 2007 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2007 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The CLCS began with the first game of Stage 1 on October 13 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 20.

First stage

Summary

Chunichi Dragons won the series, 2–0.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 13	Hanshin Tigers – 0, Chunichi Dragons – 7	Nagoya Dome	3:25	38,385 [1]
2	October 14	Hanshin Tigers – 3, Chunichi Dragons – 5	Nagoya Dome	3:14	38,275 [2]

Game 1

Saturday, October 13, 2007, 6:01 pm (JST) at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Hanshin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1
Chunichi	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	X	7	13	0
WP: Kenshin Kawakami (1–0)   LP: Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi (0–1) Home runs: HAN: None CHU: Tyrone Woods (1), Masahiko Morino (1)

Game 2

Sunday, October 14, 2007, 6:00 pm (JST) at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya Dome in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Hanshin	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	8	0
Chunichi	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	5	8	0
WP: Kenichi Nakata (1–0)   LP: Keiji Uezono (0–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (1) Home runs: HAN: None CHU: Lee Byung-Kyu (1)

Second stage

The Yomiuri Giants hosted the Chunichi Dragons for all three Stage-2 games in the Tokyo Dome.

Summary

Chunichi Dragons won the series, 3–0.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 18	Chunichi Dragons – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 2	Tokyo Dome	3:48	44,232 [3]
2	October 19	Chunichi Dragons – 7, Yomiuri Giants – 4	Tokyo Dome	3:49	45,074 [4]
3	October 20	Chunichi Dragons – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 2	Tokyo Dome	3:17	46,081 [5]

Game 1

Thursday, October 18, 2007, 6:00 pm (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Bunkyō, Tokyo

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chunichi	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	5	9	0
Yomiuri	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	8	2
WP: Takashi Ogasawara (1–0)   LP: Tetsuya Utsumi (0–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (1) Home runs: CHU: Tyrone Woods (1) YOM: Yoshitomo Tani (1)

Game 2

Friday, October 19, 2007, 6:00 pm (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Bunkyō, Tokyo

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chunichi	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	1	7	14	1
Yomiuri	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	7	0
WP: Kenshin Kawakami (1–0)   LP: Hiroshi Kisanuki (0–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (2) Home runs: CHU: Lee Byung-Kyu (1) YOM: Damon Hollins (1)

Game 3

Saturday, October 20, 2007, 6:00 pm (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Bunkyō, Tokyo

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chunichi	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	0
Yomiuri	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	0
WP: Kenichi Nakata (1–0)   LP: Hisanori Takahashi (0–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (3) Home runs: CHU: Tyrone Woods (2), Motonobu Tanishige (1) YOM: Tomohiro Nioka (1)

References

1. 2007年10月13日 (土) (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
2. 2007年10月14日 (日) (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
3. 2007年10月18日 (木) (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
4. 2007年10月19日 (金) (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
5. 2007年10月20日 (土) (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved November 18, 2009.