2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season
Manager	Trey Hillman
Owner(s)	Nippon Ham
Arena	Sapporo Dome
Results
Record	79–60–5 (.568)
Place	1st (PL)
Playoff finish	Lost Japan Series
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters seasons
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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

Pacific League	G	W	L	T	Win%	GB
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	144	79	60	5	.568	—
Chiba Lotte Marines	144	76	61	7	.555	2
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	144	73	66	5	.525	6
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	144	67	75	2	.472	13½
Seibu Lions	144	66	76	2	.465	14½
Orix Buffaloes	144	62	77	5	.446	17

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

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

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
Darvish, YuYu Darvish	26	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Ejiri, ShintaroShintaro Ejiri	42	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Glynn, RyanRyan Glynn	24	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Green, AndyAndy Green	18	61	2	12	5	0	0	3	.197	0
Iiyama, YujiYuji Iiyama	105	49	16	15	3	0	0	7	.306	3
Inaba, AtsunoriAtsunori Inaba	137	527	61	176	39	0	17	87	.334	6
Inada, NaotoNaoto Inada	83	160	15	44	2	1	0	14	.275	0
Itoi, YoshioYoshio Itoi	7	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	.091	1
Jones, MitchMitch Jones	30	94	3	15	6	1	1	7	.160	1
Kaneko, MakotoMakoto Kaneko	132	419	34	102	15	4	4	53	.243	9
Kaneko, YoheiYohei Kaneko	33	62	4	8	2	0	3	10	.129	1
Kawashima, KeizoKeizo Kawashima	10	18	2	4	1	0	0	0	.222	1
Kimoto, KuniyukiKuniyuki Kimoto	18	35	2	3	0	0	0	1	.086	0
Kinoshita, TatsuoTatsuo Kinoshita	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Konta, ToshimasaToshimasa Konta	94	57	14	14	2	1	0	5	.246	7
Koyano, EiichiEiichi Koyano	113	364	39	92	12	1	5	37	.253	5
Kudo, TakahitoTakahito Kudo	72	215	23	62	6	4	0	17	.288	9
Morimoto, HichoriHichori Morimoto	144	584	91	175	27	3	3	44	.300	31
Nakajima, SatoshiSatoshi Nakajima	60	15	1	1	0	0	1	3	.067	0
Oda, TomoyukiTomoyuki Oda	34	73	3	12	4	0	0	3	.164	0
Oshimoto, TakehikoTakehiko Oshimoto	36	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Seguignol, FernandoFernando Seguignol	134	470	50	117	21	0	21	68	.249	0
Takaguchi, TakayukiTakayuki Takaguchi	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takahashi, ShinjiShinji Takahashi	112	385	38	98	23	0	10	43	.255	2
Takeda, HisashiHisashi Takeda	64	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takeda, MasaruMasaru Takeda	35	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	.100	0
Tanaka, KensukeKensuke Tanaka	144	526	66	134	24	7	3	31	.255	27
Tanaka, YukioYukio Tanaka	65	135	16	30	4	0	5	19	.222	0
Tsuboi, TomochikaTomochika Tsuboi	100	276	26	78	7	2	0	23	.283	6
Tsuruoka, ShinyaShinya Tsuruoka	57	133	7	27	2	1	0	13	.203	0
Yang Dai-KangYang Dai-Kang	55	109	12	26	8	2	0	10	.239	3
Yoshikawa, MitsuoMitsuo 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
Darvish, YuYu Darvish	15	5	1.82	26	.750	0	207 ^2⁄3	48	42	49	210
Ejiri, ShintaroShintaro Ejiri	7	4	3.33	42	.636	1	48 ^2⁄3	21	18	10	38
Glynn, RyanRyan Glynn	9	8	2.21	24	.529	0	155	43	38	33	111
Hagiwara, JunJun Hagiwara	1	0	5.63	5	1.000	0	8	5	5	4	5
Hashimoto, YoshitakaYoshitaka Hashimoto	0	0	3.38	5	.000	0	8	3	3	3	4
Ito, TakeshiTakeshi Ito	0	0	6.60	11	.000	0	15	11	11	3	8
Kanamori, TakayukiTakayuki Kanamori	4	1	2.35	15	.800	0	23	6	6	3	9
Kanazawa, TakehitoTakehito Kanazawa	1	1	8.46	10	.500	0	22 ^1⁄3	21	21	12	9
Kanemura, SatoruSatoru Kanemura	5	6	4.73	13	.455	0	78	44	41	30	33
Kato, TatsuoTatsuo Kato	0	0	1.86	11	.000	0	9 ^2⁄3	2	2	3	6
Kikuchi, KazumasaKazumasa Kikuchi	0	0	0.00	1	.000	0	2	0	0	1	3
Kinoshita, TatsuoTatsuo Kinoshita	2	1	2.40	5	.667	0	30	8	8	7	11
Nakamura, MichealMicheal Nakamura	1	1	2.16	56	.500	34	58 ^1⁄3	15	14	14	49
Oshimoto, TakehikoTakehiko Oshimoto	2	1	4.60	36	.667	0	47	25	24	23	49
Sunaga, HidekiHideki Sunaga	0	0	54.00	3	.000	0	1 ^1⁄3	8	8	2	0
Sweeney, BrianBrian Sweeney	6	8	3.70	21	.429	0	109 ^1⁄3	47	45	36	56
Takeda, HisashiHisashi Takeda	7	6	2.42	64	.538	2	74 ^1⁄3	20	20	16	53
Takeda, MasaruMasaru Takeda	9	4	2.54	35	.692	0	149	42	42	17	101
Tateyama, YoshinoriYoshinori Tateyama	2	4	4.17	7	.333	0	41	20	19	9	31
Yagi, TomoyaTomoya Yagi	4	6	4.54	15	.400	0	85 ^1⁄3	45	43	20	36
Yamamoto, KazunoriKazunori Yamamoto	0	1	6.75	12	.000	0	21 ^1⁄3	16	16	12	15
Yoshikawa, MitsuoMitsuo Yoshikawa	4	3	3.66	19	.571	0	93 ^1⁄3	39	38	46	52

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References