2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Pacific League champions
LeaguePacific League
BallparkSapporo Dome
Record79–60–5 (.568)
League place1st
Parent companyNippon Ham
PresidentJunichi Fujii
ManagerTrey Hillman
CaptainMakoto 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
 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
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
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 Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

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
  Indicates PL leader in the category

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
  Indicates PL leader in the category

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