2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

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2007  Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Pacific League champions
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters insignia (2004-2021).png
League Pacific League
Ballpark Sapporo Dome
Record79–60–5 (.568)
League place1st
Parent company Nippon Ham
PresidentJunichi Fujii
Manager Trey Hillman
Captain Makoto Kaneko
2008  

The 2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season was the 62nd season for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters franchise.

Contents

Regular season

Standings

2007 Pacific League standings
TeamPldWLTPCTGB
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 14479605.566
Chiba Lotte Marines 14476617.5522
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 14473665.5246
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 14467752.47213.5
Seibu Lions 14466762.46514.5
Orix Buffaloes 14462775.44817
Source: [ citation needed ]

Record vs. opponents

Pacific League
Chiba Lotte Marines 11–11–2
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 9–14–1
Orix Buffaloes 14–10–0
Saitama Seibu Lions 12–11–1
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 15–9–1
Central League
Chunichi Dragons 3–1–0
Hanshin Tigers 4–0–0
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 4–0–0
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 3–1–0
Yokohama BayStars 1–2–1
Yomiuri Giants 3–1–0
Interleague total 18–5–1
Total79–60–5

Game log

Legend
 Fighters win
 Fighters loss
 Fighters tie
 Postponement
BoldFighters team member
2008 Game Log
March
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1March 24@ Marines 4–4 (7)Game tied after 6 innings30,0620–0–1
2March 25@ Marines 0–0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings22,1140–0–2
3March 27@ Buffaloes 2–5 Davey (1–0) Kanemura (0–1) Carter (1)12,0550–1–2
4March 28@ Buffaloes 3–2 Yagi (1–0) Hirano (0–1) Nakamura (1)8,2451–1–2

Roster

2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Roster
PitchersCatchers

Infielders

OutfieldersManager

Postseason

Climax Series

Stage 2

Game 1
Team123456789 R H E
Lotte011000000250
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WP: Yu Darvish (1–0)   LP: Yasutomo Kubo (0–1)
Game 2
Team123456789 R H E
Lotte0400100128131
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WP: Koji Takagi (1–0)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0–1)
Home runs:
LOT: Tomoya Satozaki (2), José Ortiz (1), Saburo Ohmura (1), Daisuke Hayakawa (1)
NIP: None
Game 3
Team123456789 R H E
Lotte000000000060
Nippon-Ham00010060X7130
WP: Ryan Glynn (1–0)   LP: Shunsuke Watanabe (0–1)
Game 4
Team123456789 R H E
Lotte0000020035140
Nippon-Ham0000100001110
WP: Yusuke Kawasaki (1–0)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0–2)
Home runs:
LOT: Tomoya Satozaki (3)
NIP: None
Game 5
Team123456789 R H E
Lotte000001001280
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WP: Yu Darvish (2–0)   LP: Yoshihisa Naruse (0–1)
Home runs:
LOT: None
NIP: Fernando Seguignol (1)

Japan Series

Game 1

Team123456789 R H E
Chunichi000001000140
Nippon-Ham300000000320
WP: Yu Darvish (1–0)   LP: Kenshin Kawakami (0–1)
Home runs:
CHU: None
NIP: Fernando Seguignol (1)

Game 2

Team123456789 R H E
Chunichi100302200880
Nippon-Ham000100000140
WP: Kenichi Nakata (1–0)   LP: Ryan Glynn (0–1)
Home runs:
CHU: Lee Byung-Kyu (1), Masahiko Morino (1)
NIP: Fernando Seguignol (2)

Game 3

Team123456789 R H E
Nippon-Ham010000000190
Chunichi72000000X9120
WP: Kenta Asakura (1–0)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0–1)

Game 4

Team123456789 R H E
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Chunichi20001010X451
WP: Yoshihiro Suzuki (1–0)   LP: Mitsuo Yoshikawa (0–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (1)

Game 5

Team123456789 R H E
Nippon-Ham000000000000
Chunichi01000000X150
WP: Daisuke Yamai (1–0)   LP: Yu Darvish (1–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (2)

Player statistics

Batting

Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG SB
Yu Darvish 268000000.0000
Shintaro Ejiri 421000000.0000
Ryan Glynn 247000000.0000
Andy Green 18612125003.1970
Yuji Iiyama 1054916153007.3063
Atsunori Inaba 137527611763901787.3346
Naoto Inada 83160154421014.2750
Yoshio Itoi 711110000.0911
Mitch Jones 30943156117.1601
Makoto Kaneko 13241934102154453.2439
Yohei Kaneko 33624820310.1291
Keizo Kawashima 1018241000.2221
Kuniyuki Kimoto 1835230001.0860
Tatsuo Kinoshita 51000000.0000
Toshimasa Konta 945714142105.2467
Eiichi Koyano 1133643992121537.2535
Takahito Kudo 72215236264017.2889
Hichori Morimoto 14458491175273344.30031
Satoshi Nakajima 6015110013.0670
Tomoyuki Oda 34733124003.1640
Takehiko Oshimoto 361000000.0000
Fernando Seguignol 134470501172102168.2490
Takayuki Takaguchi 37000000.0000
Shinji Takahashi 11238538982301043.2552
Hisashi Takeda 641000000.0000
Masaru Takeda 3510010000.1000
Kensuke Tanaka 14452666134247331.25527
Yukio Tanaka 65135163040519.2220
Tomochika Tsuboi 100276267872023.2836
Shinya Tsuruoka 5713372721013.2030
Yang Dai-Kang 55109122682010.2393
Mitsuo Yoshikawa 206000000.0000
  Indicates PL leader in the category

Pitching

Player W L ERA G Win% SV IP R ER BB K
Yu Darvish 1551.8226.7500207+23484249210
Shintaro Ejiri 743.3342.636148+2321181038
Ryan Glynn 982.2124.5290155433833111
Jun Hagiwara 105.6351.000085545
Yoshitaka Hashimoto 003.385.000083334
Takeshi Ito 006.6011.000015111138
Takayuki Kanamori 412.3515.8000236639
Takehito Kanazawa 118.4610.500022+132121129
Satoru Kanemura 564.7313.45507844413033
Tatsuo Kato 001.8611.00009+232236
Kazumasa Kikuchi 000.001.000020013
Tatsuo Kinoshita 212.405.66703088711
Micheal Nakamura 112.1656.5003458+1315141449
Takehiko Oshimoto 214.6036.66704725242349
Hideki Sunaga 0054.003.00001+138820
Brian Sweeney 683.7021.4290109+1347453656
Hisashi Takeda 762.4264.538274+1320201653
Masaru Takeda 942.5435.6920149424217101
Yoshinori Tateyama 244.177.3330412019931
Tomoya Yagi 464.5415.400085+1345432036
Kazunori Yamamoto 016.7512.000021+1316161215
Mitsuo Yoshikawa 433.6619.571093+1339384652
  Indicates PL leader in the category

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