2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season
Manager	Masataka Nashida
Owner(s)	Nippon Ham
Arena	Sapporo Dome
Results
Record	73–69–2 (.514)
Place	3rd (PL)
Playoff finish	Eliminated in PLCS Stage 2
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters seasons
	← 2007 2009 →

The 2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season was the 63rd season for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters franchise.

Regular season

Standings

Pacific League	G	W	L	T	Win%	GB
Saitama Seibu Lions	144	76	64	4	.543	—
Orix Buffaloes	144	75	68	1	.524	2½
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	144	73	69	2	.514	4
Chiba Lotte Marines	144	73	70	1	.510	4½
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	144	65	76	3	.461	11½
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	144	64	77	3	.454	12½

Record vs. opponents

Pacific League
Chiba Lotte Marines	12–12–0
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	17–7–0
Orix Buffaloes	11–13–0
Saitama Seibu Lions	9–14–1
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	10–13–1
Central League
Chunichi Dragons	3–1–0
Hanshin Tigers	2–2–0
Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2–2–0
Tokyo Yakult Swallows	3–1–0
Yokohama BayStars	3–1–0
Yomiuri Giants	1–3–0
Interleague total	14–10–0
Total	73–69–2

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 20	Marines	0–1	Darvish (1–0)	Kobayashi (0–1)		42,126	1–0–0
2	March 22	Marines	3–2	Naruse (1–0)	Sakamoto (0–1)		31,028	1–1–0
3	March 23	Marines	4–1	S. Watanabe (1–0)	Glynn (0–1)	Takagi (1)	32,215	1–2–0
4	March 25	Lions	1–9	M. Takeda (1–0)	Nishiguchi (0–1)		16,410	2–2–0
5	March 26	Lions	8–0	Kishi (1–0)	Yoshikawa (0–1)		19,206	2–3–0
6	March 27	Lions	0–1 (10)	H. Takeda (1–0)	Wakui (0–2)		25,011	3–3–0
7	March 29	@ Eagles	2–7	Tanaka (1–0)	Hoshino (0–1)		20,189	3–4–0
8	March 30	@ Eagles	1–3	Asai (1–1)	Glynn (0–2)	Aoyama (1)	19,518	3–5–0

April

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
9	April 1	@ Hawks	6–0	M. Takeda (2–0)	Arakaki (0–1)		29,204	4–5–0
10	April 2	@ Hawks	0–9	Otonari (2–0)	Yoshikawa (0–2)		17,721	4–6–0
11	April 3	@ Hawks	6–2	Darvish (2–0)	Guttormson (0–1)		32,144	5–6–0
12	April 4	@ Buffaloes	3–2	Sweeney (1–0)	Kamoshida (0–1)	Nakamura (1)	11,738	6–6–0
13	April 5	@ Buffaloes	2–7	Kondo (2–0)	Fujii (0–1)		18,129	6–7–0
14	April 6	@ Buffaloes	3–2	Glynn (1–2)	Kawagoe (1–1)	Nakamura (2)	14,111	7–7–0
15	April 8	Eagles	7–8	M. Takeda (3–0)	Lin (0–2)	Nakamura (3)	20,257	8–7–0
16	April 9	Eagles	2–4	Yoshikawa (1–2)	Nagai (2–1)	Nakamura (4)	19,044	9–7–0
17	April 10	Eagles	0–1	Darvish (3–0)	Iwakuma (2–1)		25,197	10–7–0
18	April 11	@ Marines	3–2	Sweeney (2–0)	Kobayashi (1–2)	Nakamura (5)	15,161	11–7–0
19	April 12	@ Marines	1–2	Naruse (2–1)	Miyanishi (0–1)		27,513	11–8–0
20	April 13	@ Marines	1–2 (10)	S. Watanabe (2–1)	H. Takeda (1–1)		16,282	11–9–0
21	April 15	@ Lions	3–3 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings			8,397	11–9–1
22	April 16	@ Lions	2–4	Wakui (2–2)	Yoshikawa (1–3)		11,263	11–10–1
23	April 18	Hawks	1–3	Darvish (4–0)	Sugiuchi (1–2)		18,107	12–10–1
24	April 19	Hawks	2–4	Fujii (1–1)	Oba (2–2)	Nakamura (6)	27,041	13–10–1
25	April 20	Hawks	4–2	Wada (1–0)	Glynn (1–3)	Houlton (2)	30,536	13–11–1
26	April 22	Buffaloes	2–4	Hoshino (1–1)	Takagi (1–2)	Nakamura (7)	14,253	14–11–1
27	April 23	Buffaloes	5–0	Yamamoto (2–0)	Sweeney (2–1)		14,358	14–12–1
28	April 24	Buffaloes	2–3 (10)	H. Takeda (2–1)	Kato (0–1)		15,644	15–12–1
29	April 25	@ Eagles	1–6	Iwakuma (4–1)	Yoshikawa (1–4)		13,213	15–13–1
30	April 26	@ Eagles	0–4	Guzmán (1–2)	Fujii (1–2)		16,826	15–14–1
31	April 27	@ Eagles	0–5	Tanaka (3–1)	Glynn (1–4)		20,634	15–15–1
32	April 29	@ Marines	3–2	Nakamura (1–0)	Sikorski (1–4)		30,021	16–15–1
33	April 30	@ Marines	6–3	Darvish (5–0)	S. Watanabe (3–2)	Nakamura (8)	17,516	17–15–1

May

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
34	May 1	@ Marines	6–1	Yoshikawa (2–4)	Ono (2–1)		17,143	18–15–1
35	May 2	Eagles	1–5	Tadano (1–0)	Iwakuma (4–2)	Nakamura (9)	41,124	19–15–1
36	May 3	Eagles	5–12	Sakamoto (1–1)	Kawagishi (0–1)		40,083	20–15–1
37	May 4	Eagles	7–1	Tanaka (4–1)	Glynn (1–5)		42,126	20–16–1
38	May 5	@ Lions	6–8	Onodera (2–2)	H. Takeda (2–2)	Graman (8)	34,783	20–17–1
39	May 6	@ Lions	1–3	K. Ishii (5–1)	Miyanishi (0–2)		27,340	20–18–1
40	May 7	@ Lions	3–4	Hoshino (2–0)	Darvish (5–1)		15,574	20–19–1
41	May 10	Hawks	1–0	Sugiuchi (3–3)	Fujii (1–3)		16,822	20–20–1
42	May 11	Hawks	3–4	Miyanishi (1–2)	Kume (3–1)	Nakamura (10)	17,919	21–20–1
43	May 13	Marines	8–2	Karakawa (3–0)	Glynn (1–6)		19,828	21–21–1
44	May 14	Marines	3–4 (11)	Nakamura (2–0)	Ogino (1–3)		22,265	22–21–1
45	May 15	Marines	5–6	Tateyama (1–0)	Abreu (1–1)		17,368	23–21–1
46	May 16	@ Hawks	10–3	Tadano (2–0)	Otonari (3–5)		30,948	24–21–1
47	May 17	@ Hawks	2–3	Sugiuchi (4–3)	Tateyama (1–1)		30,218	24–22–1
48	May 18	@ Hawks	4–3	Sweeney (3–1)	Oba (3–4)	H. Takeda (1)	32,494	25–22–1
49	May 20	BayStars	3–6	Glynn (2–6)	Nasuno (2–6)	H. Takeda (2)	16,957	26–22–1
50	May 21	BayStars	3–4	Hoshino (2–1)	Miura (2–5)	H. Takeda (3)	20,271	27–22–1
51	May 23	Dragons	0–1	Sakamoto (2–1)	Kawakami (2–3)	H. Takeda (4)	23,966	28–22–1
52	May 24	Dragons	1–11	Sweeney (4–1)	Kawai (1–2)		30,983	29–22–1
53	May 25	@ Giants	4–6	Nishimura (6–2)	Fujii (1–4)	Kroon (15)	43,813	29–23–1
54	May 26	@ Giants	3–4	Burnside (1–0)	Glynn (2–7)	Kroon (16)	39,278	29–24–1
55	May 28	@ Swallows	7–3	Darvish (6–1)	Muranaka (3–6)		18,050	30–24–1
56	May 29	@ Swallows	3–2	Miyanishi (2–2)	Oshimoto (2–1)	H. Takeda (5)	9,683	31–24–1
57	May 31	Tigers	1–2	Sweeney (5–1)	Iwata (5–2)	H. Takeda (6)	42,126	32–24–1

June

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
58	June 1	Tigers	5–4 (10)	Kubota (3–1)	H. Takeda (2–3)	Fujikawa (18)	42,126	32–25–1
59	June 3	Carp	2–4	Glynn (3–7)	Otake (2–7)		17,815	33–25–1
60	June 4	Carp	3–2	Lewis (8–4)	Darvish (6–2)	Nagakawa (8)	23,870	33–26–1
61	June 6	@ Dragons	7–3	Sakamoto (3–1)	M. Sato (0–1)		36,725	34–26–1
62	June 7	@ Dragons	1–4	Kawakami (4–3)	Sweeney (5–2)	Iwase (18)	38,247	34–27–1
63	June 8	@ BayStars	9–3	Fujii (2–4)	Nasuno (4–7)		17,842	35–27–1
64	June 9	@ BayStars	3–13	Oyamada (2–3)	Glynn (3–8)		9,796	35–28–1
65	June 11	Giants	1–0	Nomaguchi (2–3)	Darvish (6–3)	Kroon (18)	35,298	35–29–1
66	June 12	Giants	2–3	Tadano (3–0)	Burnside (2–1)	Nakamura (11)	30,135	36–29–1
67	June 14	Swallows	1–2 (10)	H. Takeda (3–3)	Lim (1–3)		40,058	37–29–1
68	June 15	Swallows	3–1	Muranaka (4–7)	Glynn (3–9)	Lim (16)	31,556	37–30–1
69	June 17	@ Carp	8–7	Darvish (7–3)	Otake (2–9)	Nakamura (12)	19,860	38–30–1
70	June 18	@ Carp	1–2	K. Maeda (1–0)	Tadano (3–1)	Nagakawa (12)	18,527	38–31–1
71	June 21	@ Tigers	4–0	Sweeney (6–2)	Iwata (5–4)		43,528	39–31–1
72	June 22	@ Tigers	3–5	Atchison (5–4)	Glynn (3–10)	Fujikawa (25)	43,524	39–32–1
73	June 27	@ Buffaloes	4–3	Darvish (8–3)	Kawagoe (1–3)	Nakamura (13)	14,654	40–32–1
74	June 28	@ Buffaloes	1–5	Kaneko (3–6)	Tadano (3–2)		16,809	40–33–1
75	June 29	@ Buffaloes	9–4	M. Takeda (4–0)	Kondo (5–7)	Tateyama (1)	18,153	41–33–1

July

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
76	July 1	Lions	12–7	Onodera (3–4)	Miyanishi (2–3)		22,125	41–34–1
77	July 2	Lions	8–6	Wakui (7–6)	Glynn (3–11)	Graman (15)	17,682	41–35–1
78	July 3	Lions	4–6	Darvish (9–3)	Hoashi (7–2)	Nakamura (14)	24,420	42–35–1
79	July 5	Buffaloes	3–4	Tadano (4–2)	Ortiz (3–5)	Nakamura (15)	17,892	43–35–1
80	July 6	Buffaloes	8–5	Kaneko (4–6)	M. Takeda (4–1)	Kato (17)	21,063	43–36–1
81	July 8	@ Marines	2–5	Shimizu (7–6)	Sweeney (6–3)		18,562	43–37–1
82	July 9	@ Marines	5–7	Kawasaki (1–3)	Glynn (3–12)	Ogino (11)	28,198	43–38–1
83	July 11	Hawks	2–3	Darvish (10–3)	Otonari (7–7)		22,712	44–38–1
84	July 12	Hawks	6–9	Tadano (5–2)	Oba (3–5)	Nakamura (16)	31,882	45–38–1
85	July 13	Hawks	10–1	Wada (8–3)	M. Takeda (4–2)		32,127	45–39–1
86	July 15	Eagles	4–4 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings			16,186	45–39–2
87	July 16	Eagles	5–2	Katayama (2–1)	Miyanishi (2–4)	Kawagishi (2)	16,249	45–40–2
88	July 17	Eagles	1–3	Darvish (11–3)	Guzmán (2–5)		20,773	46–40–2
89	July 19	@ Buffaloes	2–6	Yamamoto (7–2)	Tadano (5–3)		20,016	46–41–2
90	July 20	@ Buffaloes	1–4	Kaneko (6–6)	M. Takeda (4–3)	Kato (20)	16,068	46–42–2
91	July 22	Marines	2–3	Sweeney (7–3)	Kobayashi (2–9)	Nakamura (17)	25,845	47–42–2
92	July 23	Marines	3–2	Shimizu (8–6)	Fujii (2–5)	Ogino (14)	26,902	47–43–2
93	July 24	Marines	5–2	Omine (1–2)	Darvish (11–4)	Ogino (15)	27,825	47–44–2
94	July 25	Lions	1–2	Tadano (6–3)	Hoashi (9–3)	Nakamura (18)	23,323	48–44–2
95	July 26	Lions	6–3	Iwasaki (2–0)	Kanamori (0–1)	Graman (20)	33,538	48–45–2
96	July 27	Lions	3–2 (10)	Graman (2–2)	H. Takeda (3–4)		36,064	48–46–2
97	July 28	@ Hawks	10–2	M. Takeda (5–3)	Powell (1–5)		34,222	49–46–2
98	July 29	@ Hawks	5–2	Sweeney (8–3)	Yang (1–2)	Nakamura (19)	32,653	50–46–2
All-Star Break: CL and PL split series, 1–1

August

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
99	August 3	@ Eagles	4–11	Asai (7–7)	Tadano (6–4)		20,516	50–47–2
100	August 4	@ Eagles	6–2	M. Takeda (6–3)	Aoyama (2–5)		18,760	51–47–2
101	August 5	@ Eagles	7–2	Sweeney (9–3)	Guzmán (2–7)		17,942	52–47–2
102	August 10	@ Lions	2–11	Hoashi (10–3)	Tadano (6–5)		30,024	52–48–2
103	August 11	@ Lions	0–3	Kishi (9–4)	M. Takeda (6–4)	Graman (22)	19,260	52–49–2
104	August 12	@ Lions	4–8	Onodera (4–4)	H. Takeda (3–5)		19,055	52–50–2
105	August 13	Buffaloes	4–2	Komatsu (9–3)	Glynn (3–13)	Kato (24)	24,416	52–51–2
106	August 14	Buffaloes	2–0 (11)	Kato (2–3)	H. Takeda (3–6)	Shimizu (1)	22,476	52–52–2
107	August 15	Buffaloes	5–3 (10)	Kawagoe (2–3)	Nakamura (2–1)	Kato (25)	22,829	52–53–2
108	August 16	@ Hawks	5–1	Yagi (1–0)	Standridge (0–2)		33,687	53–53–2
109	August 17	@ Hawks	1–2	Otonari (11–8)	M. Takeda (6–5)	Mahara (5)	33,533	53–54–2
110	August 18	@ Hawks	7–0	Sweeney (10–3)	Hoshino (0–1)		30,636	54–54–2
111	August 19	Marines	0–4	Glynn (4–13)	Kobayashi (3–11)		20,061	55–54–2
112	August 20	Marines	6–3	Shimizu (9–8)	Fujii (2–6)	Ogino (20)	21,034	55–55–2
113	August 24	Lions	3–9	Tadano (7–5)	Hoashi (10–4)		22,583	56–55–2
114	August 25	Lions	4–3	Onodera (5–4)	H. Takeda (3–7)	Graman (23)	21,840	56–56–2
115	August 26	@ Marines	3–2	Sweeney (11–3)	S. Watanabe (11–5)	Nakamura (20)	20,764	57–56–2
116	August 27	@ Marines	1–0	Glynn (5–13)	Kubo (2–6)	Nakamura (21)	22,038	58–56–2
117	August 28	@ Marines	0–3	Shimizu (10–8)	Fujii (2–7)		16,522	58–57–2
118	August 29	@ Buffaloes	4–7	Kishida (2–0)	Kanazawa (0–1)	Kato (29)	20,279	58–58–2
119	August 30	@ Buffaloes	2–7	Yamamoto (9–4)	Yagi (1–1)		18,169	58–59–2
120	August 31	@ Buffaloes	1–5	Kaneko (9–8)	Tadano (7–6)		18,033	58–60–2

September

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
121	September 2	Hawks	0–2	Darvish (12–4)	Guttormson (4–5)	Nakamura (22)	20,118	59–60–2
122	September 3	Hawks	4–3	Satō (3–1)	M. Takeda (6–6)	Mahara (7)	17,702	59–61–2
123	September 4	Hawks	3–4	H. Takeda (4–7)	Satō (3–2)		16,975	60–61–2
124	September 5	Eagles	5–3 (10)	Gwyn (1–0)	Nakamura (2–2)		22,692	60–62–2
125	September 6	Eagles	1–4	Fujii (3–7)	Katayama (2–5)	Nakamura (23)	33,197	61–62–2
126	September 7	Eagles	5–2	Satake (1–0)	Tadano (7–7)	Arime (2)	33,224	61–63–2
127	September 9	@ Lions	4–1	Darvish (13–4)	K. Ishii (10–9)	Nakamura (24)	14,554	62–63–2
128	September 10	@ Lions	6–5	Sakamoto (4–1)	Nishiguchi (8–6)	Nakamura (25)	14,292	63–63–2
129	September 11	@ Lions	3–5	Wakui (9–9)	Sweeney (11–4)	Graman (27)	14,016	63–64–2
130	September 13	Buffaloes	4–7	Glynn (6–13)	Yamamoto (9–6)	Nakamura (26)	25,074	64–64–2
131	September 14	Buffaloes	6–9	Sakamoto (5–1)	Kaneko (10–9)	Nakamura (27)	30,457	65–64–2
132	September 15	Buffaloes	4–5	Darvish (14–4)	Kato (2–4)		31,473	66–64–2
133	September 16	@ Eagles	1–6	Iwakuma (19–3)	M. Takeda (6–7)		11,966	66–65–2
134	September 17	@ Eagles	7–15	Asai (9–10)	Sweeney (11–5)		12,430	66–66–2
135	September 18	@ Eagles	2–5	Tanaka (8–6)	Fujii (3–8)		13,697	66–67–2
136	September 20	@ Buffaloes	1–6	Yamamoto (10–6)	Glynn (6–14)		20,222	66–68–2
137	September 21	@ Buffaloes	10–5	Sakamoto (6–1)	Motoyanagi (2–7)		25,036	67–68–2
138	September 22	@ Hawks	9–0	Darvish (15–4)	Arakaki (2–6)		30,491	68–68–2
139	September 23	@ Hawks	5–2	M. Takeda (7–7)	Sugiuchi (10–7)		30,278	69–68–2
140	September 26	Lions	0–2	Sweeney (12–5)	Hoashi (11–6)	Tateyama (2)	28,331	70–68–2
141	September 27	Lions	4–5	Glynn (7–14)	Hsu (1–3)	Nakamura (28)	35,460	71–68–2
142	September 28	Marines	4–1	Naruse (8–6)	Tateyama (1–2)	Ogino (29)	42,126	71–69–2
143	September 29	Marines	1–2	Darvish (16–4)	Kobayashi (5–12)		42,126	72–69–2

October

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
144	October 1	@ Eagles	17–0	M. Takeda (8–7)	Tanaka (9–7)		14,953	73–69–2

Roster

2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Roster

Pitchers

11 Yu Darvish

66 Romash Tasuku Dass

18 Shugo Fujii

14 Ryan Glynn

43 Yachiho Hoshino

60 Takeshi Ito

59 Takayuki Kanamori

28 Takehito Kanazawa

12 Tatsuo Kato

47 Kazumasa Kikuchi

17 Ken Miyamoto

25 Naoki Miyanishi

36 Micheal Nakamura

30 Yataro Sakamoto

42 Brian Sweeney

16 Kazuhito Tadano

21 Hisashi Takeda

38 Masaru Takeda

22 Yoshinori Tateyama

67 Akiyoshi Toyoshima

46 Yusuke Uemura

29 Tomoya Yagi

34 Mitsuo Yoshikawa

Catchers

62 Ryota Imanari

32 Satoshi Nakajima

37 Keiji Oyama

2 Shinji Takahashi

64 Shinya Tsuruoka

63 Ryuichi Watanabe

Infielders

39 Jason Botts

50 Suguru Ichikawa

4 Yuji Iiyama

45 Takahiro Imanami

5 Naoto Inada

15 Mitch Jones

8 Makoto Kaneko

31 Eiichi Koyano

33 Hajime Miki

9 Tomoyuki Oda

23 Masaya Ozaki

58 Takayuki Takaguchi

3 Kensuke Tanaka

24 Yang Dai-Kang

Outfielders

41 Atsunori Inaba

26 Yoshio Itoi

40 Yohei Kaneko

52 Toshimasa Konta

53 Takahito Kudo

1 Hichori Morimoto

51 Kazuya Murata

55 Yoshihiro Sato

10 Terrmel Sledge

7 Tomochika Tsuboi

65 Atsushi Ugumori

Manager

88 Masataka Nashida

Postseason

Climax Series

Stage 1

Game 1


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	4	5	1
Orix	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	9	0
WP: Yu Darvish (1–0) LP: Kazuki Kondo (0–1) Home runs: NIP: Terrmel Sledge (1) ORX: None

Game 2


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	2	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	7	13	0
Orix	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	6	2
WP: Shugo Fujii (1–0) LP: Satoshi Komatsu (0–1) Home runs: NIP: Jason Botts (1) ORX: None

Stage 2

Game 1


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	3	10	0
Seibu	1	0	5	4	0	0	0	0	X	10	13	1
WP: Hideaki Wakui (1–0) LP: Ryan Glynn (0–1) Home runs: NIP: Terrmel Sledge (1) SEI: Hiroyuki Nakajima (2), Taketoshi Goto (1)

Game 2


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	9	0
Seibu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
WP: Yu Darvish (1–0) LP: Takayuki Kishi (0–1) Home runs: NIP: Makoto Kaneko (1) SEI: None

Game 3


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	9	2
Seibu	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	4	7	1
WP: Masaru Takeda (1–0) LP: Kazuyuki Hoashi (0–1) Home runs: NIP: Terrmel Sledge (2) SEI: None

Game 4


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nippon-Ham	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	4	7	0
Seibu	4	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	X	9	15	1
WP: Kazuhisa Ishii (1–0) LP: Brian Sweeney (0–1) Home runs: NIP: Jason Botts (1) SEI: Toru Hosokawa (1), Shogo Akada (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	3	0
Seibu	0	1	4	0	0	0	1	3	X	9	12	0
WP: Hideaki Wakui (2–0) LP: Ryan Glynn (0–2) Home runs: NIP: None SEI: Taketoshi Goto (2)

Awards

Various Fighters players won awards for their regular season performances. Four players received Golden Glove Awards: Yu Darvish, Kensuke Tanaka, Atsunori Inaba and Hichori Morimoto and Inaba was also selected for the Best Nine Award.

Player statistics

Batting

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
Jason Botts	55	142	14	36	9	0	5	16	.254	0
Yu Darvish	25	8	0	1	1	0	0	1	.125	0
Shugo Fujii	19	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	.500	0
Ryan Glynn	26	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Suguru Ichikawa	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Yuji Iiyama	74	49	3	8	2	0	0	2	.163	0
Takahiro Imanami	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Ryota Imanari	9	11	1	5	1	0	0	1	.455	1
Atsunori Inaba	127	448	71	135	25	5	20	82	.301	2
Naoto Inada	99	185	10	41	1	1	0	12	.222	3
Yoshio Itoi	63	188	19	45	14	1	5	21	.239	13
Mitch Jones	8	27	2	3	1	0	0	0	.111	0
Makoto Kaneko	96	291	24	63	16	0	2	29	.216	0
Yohei Kaneko	6	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Toshimasa Konta	89	140	32	33	4	1	1	6	.236	14
Eiichi Koyano	120	379	32	95	21	1	6	60	.251	0
Takahito Kudo	104	199	20	51	11	1	0	12	.256	8
Hajime Miki	17	28	5	8	2	0	0	2	.286	1
Hichori Morimoto	121	478	66	121	15	1	0	21	.253	12
Kazuya Murata	15	34	5	8	0	0	0	1	.235	0
Satoshi Nakajima	22	4	1	3	0	0	0	1	.750	0
Tomoyuki Oda	64	141	13	41	5	0	3	16	.291	0
Keiji Oyama	27	29	3	5	1	0	0	0	.172	0
Masaya Ozaki	8	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	.133	0
Yoshihiro Sato	7	12	1	1	0	0	1	2	.083	0
Terrmel Sledge	113	395	41	114	21	2	16	69	.289	0
Brian Sweeney	29	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	0
Kazuhito Tadano	20	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	0
Takayuki Takaguchi	74	167	12	36	5	4	0	14	.216	1
Shinji Takahashi	108	357	33	102	19	0	9	58	.286	3
Kensuke Tanaka	144	536	89	159	32	9	11	63	.297	21
Tomochika Tsuboi	26	50	2	11	2	0	0	1	.220	0
Shinya Tsuruoka	97	248	24	52	14	0	1	18	.210	0
Atsushi Ugumori	11	20	3	6	1	0	0	2	.300	0
Ryuichi Watanabi	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	.250	0
Yang Dai-Kang	44	111	7	16	0	1	2	4	.144	1

Pitching

Player	W	L	ERA	G	Win%	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	K
Yu Darvish	16	4	1.88	25	.800	0	200 ²⁄₃	44	42	44	208
Romash Tasuku Dass	0	0	0.00	1	.000	0	5	1	0	3	2
Shugo Fujii	3	8	3.25	19	.273	0	110 ²⁄₃	46	40	41	76
Ryan Glynn	7	14	3.64	26	.333	0	163 ¹⁄₃	74	66	61	99
Yachiho Hoshino	2	1	4.94	23	.667	0	23 ²⁄₃	17	13	6	11
Takeshi Ito	0	0	5.40	4	.000	0	3 ¹⁄₃	3	2	0	2
Takayuki Kanamori	0	1	4.50	10	.000	0	12	7	6	5	7
Takehito Kanazawa	0	1	6.00	4	.000	0	18	12	12	7	8
Tatsuo Kato	0	0	8.44	14	.000	0	10 ²⁄₃	11	10	4	7
Kazumasa Kikuchi	0	0	9.90	11	.000	0	10	11	11	3	4
Ken Miyamoto	0	0	5.40	9	.000	0	8 ¹⁄₃	9	5	4	6
Naoki Miyanishi	2	4	4.73	50	.333	0	45 ¹⁄₃	24	22	15	25
Micheal Nakamura	2	2	2.14	46	.500	28	46 ¹⁄₃	11	11	12	47
Yataro Sakamoto	6	1	3.18	31	.857	0	51	18	18	18	35
Brian Sweeney	12	5	3.48	28	.706	0	163	65	63	72	90
Kazuhito Tadano	7	7	4.78	19	.500	0	105 ¹⁄₃	57	56	22	61
Hisashi Takeda	4	7	4.40	62	.364	6	61 ¹⁄₃	31	30	19	40
Masaru Takeda	8	7	2.96	20	.533	0	121 ²⁄₃	44	40	19	68
Yoshinori Tateyama	1	2	3.07	58	.333	2	67 ¹⁄₃	23	23	12	53
Akiyoshi Toyoshima	0	0	0.00	2	.000	0	2	0	0	1	0
Yusuke Uemura	0	0	3.00	2	.000	0	3	1	1	3	0
Tomoya Yagi	1	1	6.75	2	.500	0	10 ²⁄₃	8	8	3	10
Mitsuo Yoshikawa	2	4	6.23	7	.333	0	34 ²⁄₃	24	24	22	23

Indicates PL leader in the category

References

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2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season
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2008 All-Star Game 2008 Japan Series 2008 Asia Series