2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

2007  Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Pacific League champions
League	Pacific League
Ballpark	Sapporo Dome
Record	79–60–5 (.568)
League place	1st
Parent company	Nippon Ham
President	Junichi Fujii
Manager	Trey Hillman
Captain	Makoto Kaneko
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The 2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season was the 62nd season for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters franchise.

Regular season

Standings

2007 Pacific League standings

Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	PCT	GB
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	144	79	60	5	.566	—
Chiba Lotte Marines	144	76	61	7	.552	2
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	144	73	66	5	.524	6
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	144	67	75	2	.472	13.5
Seibu Lions	144	66	76	2	.465	14.5
Orix Buffaloes	144	62	77	5	.448	17

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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
Total	79–60–5

Game log

Legend
	Fighters win
	Fighters loss
	Fighters tie
	Postponement
Bold	Fighters team member

2008 Game Log
March # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record 1 March 24 @ Marines 4–4 (7) Game tied after 6 innings 30,062 0–0–1 2 March 25 @ Marines 0–0 (12) Game tied after 12 innings 22,114 0–0–2 3 March 27 @ Buffaloes 2–5 Davey (1–0) Kanemura (0–1) Carter (1) 12,055 0–1–2 4 March 28 @ Buffaloes 3–2 Yagi (1–0) Hirano (0–1) Nakamura (1) 8,245 1–1–2

Roster

2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Roster
Pitchers 11 Yu Darvish 27 Shintaro Ejiri 14 Ryan Glynn 19 Jun Hagiwara 33 Yoshitaka Hashimoto 60 Takeshi Ito 59 Takayuki Kanamori 28 Takehito Kanazawa 16 Satoru Kanemura 12/51 Tatsuo Kato 47 Kazumasa Kikuchi 35 Tatsuo Kinoshita 36 Micheal Nakamura 61 Takehiko Oshimoto 13 Hideki Sunaga 42 Brian Sweeney 21 Hisashi Takeda 38 Masaru Takeda 22 Yoshinori Tateyama 29 Tomoya Yagi 44 Kazunori Yamamoto 34 Mitsuo Yoshikawa		Catchers 32 Satoshi Nakajima 30 Shinji Takahashi 64 Shinya Tsuruoka Infielders  4 Andy Green 57 Yuji Iiyama 54 Naoto Inada 15 Mitch Jones  8 Makoto Kaneko 10 Kuniyuki Kimoto 31 Eiichi Koyano  9 Tomoyuki Oda  5 Fernando Seguignol 58 Takayuki Takaguchi  3 Kensuke Tanaka  6 Yukio Tanaka 24 Yang Dai-Kang		Outfielders 41 Atsunori Inaba 26 Yoshio Itoi 40 Yohei Kaneko 39 Keizo Kawashima 52 Toshimasa Konta 53 Takahito Kudo  1 Hichori Morimoto  7 Tomochika Tsuboi	Manager 88 Trey Hillman

Postseason

Climax Series

Main article: 2007 Pacific League Climax Series

Stage 2

Game 1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	0
Nippon-Ham	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	5	13	0
WP: Yu Darvish (1–0)   LP: Yasutomo Kubo (0–1)

Game 2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	8	13	1
Nippon-Ham	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
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

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0	X	7	13	0
WP: Ryan Glynn (1–0)   LP: Shunsuke Watanabe (0–1)

Game 4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	14	0
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	11	0
WP: Yusuke Kawasaki (1–0)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0–2) Home runs: LOT: Tomoya Satozaki (3) NIP: None

Game 5

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	8	0
Nippon-Ham	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	X	6	11	0
WP: Yu Darvish (2–0)   LP: Yoshihisa Naruse (0–1) Home runs: LOT: None NIP: Fernando Seguignol (1)

Japan Series

Main article: 2007 Japan Series

Game 1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chunichi	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	0
Nippon-Ham	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0
WP: Yu Darvish (1–0)   LP: Kenshin Kawakami (0–1) Home runs: CHU: None NIP: Fernando Seguignol (1)

Game 2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Chunichi	1	0	0	3	0	2	2	0	0	8	8	0
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
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

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	0
Chunichi	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	9	12	0
WP: Kenta Asakura (1–0)   LP: Masaru Takeda (0–1)

Game 4

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	7	1
Chunichi	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	4	5	1
WP: Yoshihiro Suzuki (1–0)   LP: Mitsuo Yoshikawa (0–1)   Sv: Hitoki Iwase (1)

Game 5

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chunichi	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	1	5	0
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	26	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Shintaro Ejiri	42	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Ryan Glynn	24	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Andy Green	18	61	2	12	5	0	0	3	.197	0
Yuji Iiyama	105	49	16	15	3	0	0	7	.306	3
Atsunori Inaba	137	527	61	176	39	0	17	87	.334	6
Naoto Inada	83	160	15	44	2	1	0	14	.275	0
Yoshio Itoi	7	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	.091	1
Mitch Jones	30	94	3	15	6	1	1	7	.160	1
Makoto Kaneko	132	419	34	102	15	4	4	53	.243	9
Yohei Kaneko	33	62	4	8	2	0	3	10	.129	1
Keizo Kawashima	10	18	2	4	1	0	0	0	.222	1
Kuniyuki Kimoto	18	35	2	3	0	0	0	1	.086	0
Tatsuo Kinoshita	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Toshimasa Konta	94	57	14	14	2	1	0	5	.246	7
Eiichi Koyano	113	364	39	92	12	1	5	37	.253	5
Takahito Kudo	72	215	23	62	6	4	0	17	.288	9
Hichori Morimoto	144	584	91	175	27	3	3	44	.300	31
Satoshi Nakajima	60	15	1	1	0	0	1	3	.067	0
Tomoyuki Oda	34	73	3	12	4	0	0	3	.164	0
Takehiko Oshimoto	36	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Fernando Seguignol	134	470	50	117	21	0	21	68	.249	0
Takayuki Takaguchi	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Shinji Takahashi	112	385	38	98	23	0	10	43	.255	2
Hisashi Takeda	64	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Masaru Takeda	35	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	.100	0
Kensuke Tanaka	144	526	66	134	24	7	3	31	.255	27
Yukio Tanaka	65	135	16	30	4	0	5	19	.222	0
Tomochika Tsuboi	100	276	26	78	7	2	0	23	.283	6
Shinya Tsuruoka	57	133	7	27	2	1	0	13	.203	0
Yang Dai-Kang	55	109	12	26	8	2	0	10	.239	3
Mitsuo Yoshikawa	20	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0

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Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	Win%	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	K
Yu Darvish	15	5	1.82	26	.750	0	207+2⁄3	48	42	49	210
Shintaro Ejiri	7	4	3.33	42	.636	1	48+2⁄3	21	18	10	38
Ryan Glynn	9	8	2.21	24	.529	0	155	43	38	33	111
Jun Hagiwara	1	0	5.63	5	1.000	0	8	5	5	4	5
Yoshitaka Hashimoto	0	0	3.38	5	.000	0	8	3	3	3	4
Takeshi Ito	0	0	6.60	11	.000	0	15	11	11	3	8
Takayuki Kanamori	4	1	2.35	15	.800	0	23	6	6	3	9
Takehito Kanazawa	1	1	8.46	10	.500	0	22+1⁄3	21	21	12	9
Satoru Kanemura	5	6	4.73	13	.455	0	78	44	41	30	33
Tatsuo Kato	0	0	1.86	11	.000	0	9+2⁄3	2	2	3	6
Kazumasa Kikuchi	0	0	0.00	1	.000	0	2	0	0	1	3
Tatsuo Kinoshita	2	1	2.40	5	.667	0	30	8	8	7	11
Micheal Nakamura	1	1	2.16	56	.500	34	58+1⁄3	15	14	14	49
Takehiko Oshimoto	2	1	4.60	36	.667	0	47	25	24	23	49
Hideki Sunaga	0	0	54.00	3	.000	0	1+1⁄3	8	8	2	0
Brian Sweeney	6	8	3.70	21	.429	0	109+1⁄3	47	45	36	56
Hisashi Takeda	7	6	2.42	64	.538	2	74+1⁄3	20	20	16	53
Masaru Takeda	9	4	2.54	35	.692	0	149	42	42	17	101
Yoshinori Tateyama	2	4	4.17	7	.333	0	41	20	19	9	31
Tomoya Yagi	4	6	4.54	15	.400	0	85+1⁄3	45	43	20	36
Kazunori Yamamoto	0	1	6.75	12	.000	0	21+1⁄3	16	16	12	15
Mitsuo Yoshikawa	4	3	3.66	19	.571	0	93+1⁄3	39	38	46	52

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