2010 Pacific League Climax Series

2010 Pacific League Climax Series
First stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Chiba Lotte Marines  (2) Norifumi Nishimura 75–67–2 (.528), 2½ GB Saitama Seibu Lions  (0) Hisanobu Watanabe 78–65–1 (.545), 0 GB
Dates	October 9–10
Final stage
Team (Wins) Manager Season Chiba Lotte Marines (4) Norifumi Nishimura 75–67–2 (.528), 2½ GB Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks  (3) Koji Akiyama 76–63–5 (.547), 0 GA
Dates	October 14–19
MVP	First Stage: Tomoya Satozaki (Lotte) Final Stage: Yoshihisa Naruse (Lotte)
←  2009 Climax Series 2011  → 2010 CLCS                 2010 Japan Series

The 2010 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2010 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2010 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 9 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 19.

First stage

Summary

Chiba Lotte Marines won the series, 2–0.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 9	Chiba Lotte Marines – 6, Saitama Seibu Lions – 5 (11)	Seibu Dome	4:23	33,918 [1]
2	October 10	Chiba Lotte Marines – 5, Saitama Seibu Lions – 4 (11)	Seibu Dome	4:19	33,911 [2]

Game 1

Saturday, October 9, 2010 at Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	1	6	11	2
Seibu	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	5	13	0
WP: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (1–0)   LP: Yoshihiro Doi (0–1) Home runs: LOT: Tsuyoshi Nishioka (1), Kazuya Fukuura (1) SEI: Takeya Nakamura (1)

Game 2

Sunday, October 10, 2010 at Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Lotte	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	5	12	0
Seibu	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	9	1
WP: Tatsuya Uchi (1–0)   LP: Chikara Onodera (0–1)   Sv: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (1) Home runs: LOT: Toshiaki Imae (1), Tomoya Satozaki (1) SEI: None

Final stage

Summary

Chiba Lotte Marines won the series, 4–3*.

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 14	Chiba Lotte Marines – 3, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 1	Yahoo Dome	3:21	35,118 [3]
2	October 15	Chiba Lotte Marines – 1, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 3	Yahoo Dome	2:30	35,876 [4]
3	October 16	Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 1	Yahoo Dome	2:56	36,664 [5]
4	October 17	Chiba Lotte Marines – 4, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2	Yahoo Dome	3:23	36,235 [6]
5	October 18	Chiba Lotte Marines – 5, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2	Yahoo Dome	3:17	33,108 [7]
6	October 19	Chiba Lotte Marines – 7, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 0	Yahoo Dome	2:47	33,515 [8]

* The Pacific League regular season champion is given a one-game advantage in the Final Stage.

Game 1

Thursday, October 14, 2010 at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	0
SoftBank	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	0
WP: Yoshihisa Naruse (1–0)   LP: Toshiya Sugiuchi (0–1) Home runs: LOT: Shoitsu Omatsu (1) SOF: None

Game 2

Friday, October 15, 2010 at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3
SoftBank	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	X	3	4	0
WP: Tsuyoshi Wada (1–0)   LP: Hayden Penn (0–1) Home runs: LOT: Ikuhiro Kiyota (1) SOF: None

Game 3

Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
SoftBank	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	1	4	0
WP: Dennis Houlton (1–0)   LP: Bill Murphy (0–1)   Sv: Takahiro Mahara (1)

Game 4

Sunday, October 17, 2010 at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	4	8	0
SoftBank	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	7	0
WP: Shunsuke Watanabe (1–0)   LP: Yao-Hsun Yang (0–1)   Sv: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (1) Home runs: LOT: Makoto Imaoka (1) SOF: None

Game 5

Monday, October 18, 2010 at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	5	11	0
SoftBank	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	7	0
WP: Tatsuya Uchi (1–0)   LP: Brian Falkenborg (0–1)   Sv: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (2) Home runs: LOT: Ikuhiro Kiyota (2) SOF: None

Game 6

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Lotte	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	0	7	10	1
SoftBank	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
WP: Yoshihisa Naruse (2–0)   LP: Toshiya Sugiuchi (0–2) Home runs: LOT: Shoitsu Omatsu (2) SOF: None

References

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2. "Sunday, October 10, 2010". Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved October 15, 2010.
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8. "Tuesday, October 19, 2010". Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved October 31, 2010.