2007 Pacific League Climax Series

2007 Pacific League Climax Series
First stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Chiba Lotte Marines  (2) Bobby Valentine 76–61–7 (.555), 2 GB Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks  (1) Sadaharu Oh 73–66–5 (.525), 6 GB
Dates	October 8–10
Second stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters  (3) Trey Hillman 79–60–5 (.568), 2 GA Chiba Lotte Marines (2) Bobby Valentine 76–61–7 (.555), 2 GB
Dates	October 13–18
MVP	First Stage: Saburo Omura (Lotte) Second Stage: Yu Darvish (Nippon-Ham)
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The 2007 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) was a set of consecutive playoff series for the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in the 2007 season. In the First Stage, two teams competed in a best-of-three series while Second Stage was a best-of-five. The winner of the Second Stage advanced to the 2007 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2007 Central League Climax Series winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The PLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 8 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 18. This was the last playoff prior to the adoption of a one-win advantage for the regular season champion, which came into play for 2008 that has remained ever since.

First stage

Summary

Chiba Lotte Marines won the series, 2–1.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 8	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 4, Chiba Lotte Marines – 8	Chiba Marine Stadium	3:30	30,010 [1]
2	October 9	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 8, Chiba Lotte Marines – 3	Chiba Marine Stadium	3:13	29,411 [2]
3	October 10	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 0, Chiba Lotte Marines – 4	Chiba Marine Stadium	3:07	30,011 [3]

Game 1

Monday, October 8, 2007 at Chiba Marine Stadium in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SoftBank	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	5	0
Lotte	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	1	X	8	9	1
WP: Shunsuke Watanabe (1–0)   LP: Kazumi Saito (0–1) Home runs: SOF: None LOT: José Ortiz (1)

Game 2

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at Chiba Marine Stadium in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SoftBank	2	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	8	15	0
Lotte	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	7	0
WP: Toshiya Sugiuchi (1–0)   LP: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (0–1) Home runs: SOF: Nobuhiko Matsunaka (1), Brian Buchanan (1) LOT: Kazuya Fukuura (1)

Game 3

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at Chiba Marine Stadium in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
SoftBank	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	X	4	6	0
WP: Yoshihisa Naruse (1–0)   LP: Jason Standridge (0–1)

Second stage

Summary

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the series, 3–2.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 13	Chiba Lotte Marines – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 5	Sapporo Dome	3:06	42,222 [4]
2	October 14	Chiba Lotte Marines – 8, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 1	Sapporo Dome	3:40	42,222 [5]
3	October 15	Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 7	Sapporo Dome	3:12	42,222 [6]
4	October 16	Chiba Lotte Marines – 5, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 1	Sapporo Dome	3:59	42,222 [7]
5	October 18	Chiba Lotte Marines – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 6	Sapporo Dome	3:09	42,222 [8]

Game 1

Saturday, October 13, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

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

Sunday, October 14, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

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 Omura (1), Daisuke Hayakawa (1) NIP: None

Game 3

Monday, October 15, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

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

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

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

Thursday, October 18, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaido

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)

References

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