2007 Japan Series
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| Dates: | October 27 – November 1 | |||||||||
| MVP: | Norihiro Nakamura (Dragons) | |||||||||
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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 | ||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||
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| 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 .