# 2007 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

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 :
| Teamvte | 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 |

### 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
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1March 24@ Marines4–4 (7)Game tied after 6 innings30,0620–0–1
2March 25@ Marines0–0 (12)Game tied after 12 innings22,1140–0–2
3March 27@ Buffaloes2–5Davey (1–0)Kanemura (0–1)Carter (1)12,0550–1–2
4March 28@ Buffaloes3–2Yagi (1–0)Hirano (0–1)Nakamura (1)8,2451–1–2 :

### Roster
## 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 |
| 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