2007 Japan Series

2007 Japan Series

Team (Wins) Manager Season Chunichi Dragons (4) Hiromitsu Ochiai 78–64–2, .549, GB: 1.5 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters (1) Trey Hillman 79–60–5, .568, GA: 2
Dates:	October 27 – November 1
MVP:	Norihiro Nakamura (Dragons)
Television:	TV Asahi (ANN, Game 1) TV Tokyo (Game 2, 5, aired on 6 TXN stations, Gifu Broadcasting, Mie TV, Biwako Broadcasting, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, Nara TV and TV Wakayama) Tokai TV and Fuji TV (Fuji Network, Game 3) CBC (JNN, Game 4)

The 2007 Japan Series, the 58th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series, began Saturday, October 27, 2007, pitting the Pacific League Regular League and Climax Series' Champion, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and the Chunichi Dragons, winners of the Central League's Climax Series, in a rematch of the previous year's Japan Series, won by the Fighters.

In a virtual mirror image of the 2006 series, the Dragons won in the same manner that the Fighters had the previous year, losing the first game and sweeping the next four.

Climax Series

First stage

Final stage

Japan Series

Central League

C1

Yomiuri Giants

0

C2

Chunichi Dragons

2

C2

Chunichi Dragons

3

C3

Hanshin Tigers

0

C2

Chunichi Dragons

4

P1

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters

1

Pacific League

P1

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters

3

P2

Chiba Lotte Marines

2

P2

Chiba Lotte Marines

2

P3

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

1

Summary

Game	Date	Score	Attendance	Location
1	October 27	Chunichi 1 at Nippon Ham 3	40,616	Sapporo Dome
2	October 28	Chunichi 8 at Nippon Ham 1	40,770	Sapporo Dome
3	October 30	Nippon Ham 1 at Chunichi 9	38,068	Nagoya Dome
4	October 31	Nippon Ham 2 at Chunichi 4	38,059	Nagoya Dome
5	November 1	Nippon Ham 0 at Chunichi 1	38,118	Nagoya Dome
Chunichi wins 4–1

Matchups

Game 1

Saturday, October 27, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaidō

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

Sunday, October 28, 2007 at Sapporo Dome in Sapporo, Hokkaidō

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

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya

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

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya

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

Thursday, November 1, 2007 at Nagoya Dome in Nagoya

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)

This was the first perfect game in Japan Series history, but only recognised as such by the global governing body of baseball, the World Baseball Softball Confederation. NPB does not recognise combined perfect games or no-hitters .