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.

Contents

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

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

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
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
     Indicates PL leader in the category

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
     Indicates PL leader in the category

References

Central League: Chunichi Dragons | Hanshin Tigers | Hiroshima Toyo Carp | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | Yokohama BayStars | Yomiuri Giants
Pacific League: Chiba Lotte Marines | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | Orix Buffaloes | Saitama Seibu Lions | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
2007 All-Star Series • 2007 Japan Series • 2007 Asia Series
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