2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season

Saitama Seibu Lions
2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season
	2008 Japan Series champions
Manager	Hisanobu Watanabe
Owner(s)	Seibu Group
Arena	Seibu Dome
Results
Record	76–64–4 (.543)
Place	1st (PL)
Saitama Seibu Lions seasons
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The 2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season was a season in Japanese baseball, it saw the Lions win the 2008 Japan Series and the 2008 Asia Series.

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

Team	Record
Orix Buffaloes	14–10
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters	14–9 (1)
Chiba Lotte Marines	13–11
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	14–10
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	11–10 (3)

Interleague play	10–14
Source: ^[1]

Game log

2008 Game Log

March

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
1	March 20	Buffaloes	1 - 2	Kaneko (1-0)	Wakui (0-1)	Kato (1)	27,137	0-1-0
2	March 22	Buffaloes	6 - 0	Ishii (1-0)	Nakayama (0-1)		12,288	1-1-0
3	March 23	Buffaloes	1 - 2	Kondo (1-0)	Kinney (0-1)	Kato (2)	12,632	1-2-0
4	March 25	@Fighters	9 - 1	Takeda (1-0)	Nishiguchi (0-1)		16,410	1-3-0
5	March 26	@Fighters	0 - 8	Kishi (1-0)	Yoshikawa (0-1)		19,206	2-3-0
6	March 27	@Fighters	1 - 0 (10)	Takeda (1-0)	Wakui (0-2)		25,011	2-4-0
7	March 28	Hawks	2 - 3	Sugiuchi (1-0)	Onodera (0-1)	Nitkowski (1)	9,184	2-5-0
8	March 29	Hawks	10 - 4	Ishii (2-0)	Standridge (0-1)		16,044	3-5-0
9	March 30	Hawks	5 - 1	Kinney (1-1)	Oba (1-1)		18,059	4-5-0

April

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
10	April 1	@Buffaloes	10 - 6	Yamamoto (1-0)	Nishiguchi (0-2)		10,751	4-6-0
11	April 2	@Buffaloes	1 - 5	Kishi (2-0)	Takagi (1-1)		8,616	5-6-0
12	April 3	@Buffaloes	3 - 4	Hoshino (1-0)	Motoyanagi (0-1)	Graman (1)	9,163	6-6-0
13	April 4	Eagles	4 - 2	Hoashi (1-0)	Lin (0-1)	Graman (2)	17,599	7-6-0
14	April 5	Eagles	4 - 2	Ishii (3-0)	Tanaka (1-1)	Onuma (1)	23,902	8-6-0
15	April 6	Eagles	4 - 3	Kinney (2-1)	Asai (1-2)	Graman (3)	18,213	9-6-0
16	April 8	Marines	4 - 3	Onodera (1-1)	Ogino (1-1)		8,818	10-6-0
17	April 9	Marines	1 - 10	Shimizu (1-2)	Kishi (2-1)		10,541	10-7-0
18	April 10	Marines	15 - 5	Wakui (1-2)	Kubo (1-2)		7,702	11-7-0
19	April 11	@Hawks	3 - 8	Onuma (1-0)	Sugiuchi (1-1)	Graman (4)	28,721	12-7-0
20	April 12	@Hawks	8 - 5	Ogura (1-0)	Onodera (1-2)	Houlton (1)	29,692	12-8-0
21	April 13	@Hawks	5 - 4	Kume (3-0)	Onuma (1-1)		29,545	12-9-0
22	April 15	Fighters	3 - 3 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings			8,397	12-9-1
23	April 16	Fighters	4 - 2	Wakui (2-2)	Yoshikawa (1-3)	Graman (5)	11,263	13-9-1
—	April 19	@Eagles	Postponed (rained out)
24	April 20	@Eagles	3 - 4 (10)	Iwasaki (1-0)	Aoyama (1-1)	Graman (6)	19,601	14-9-1
25	April 22	@Marines	8 - 1	Watanabe (3-1)	Ishii (3-1)		16,856	14-10-1
26	April 23	@Marines	2 - 1	Ono (2-0)	Wakui (2-3)	Ogino (5)	16,059	14-11-1
—	April 24	@Marines	Postponed (rained out)
27	April 25	Buffaloes	9 - 5 (11)	Graman (1-0)	Junge (0-1)		7,417	15-11-1
28	April 26	Buffaloes	10 - 8	Mitsui (1-0)	Yoshino (0-1)	Graman (7)	20,130	16-11-1
29	April 27	Buffaloes	10 - 3	Hoashi (2-0)	Kondo (2-3)		16,472	17-11-1
30	April 29	Hawks	7 - 10 (12)	Houlton (1-0)	Mitsui (1-1)		26,619	17-12-1
31	April 30	Hawks	6 - 2	Ishii (4-1)	Otonari (2-4)		12,497	18-12-1

May

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
32	May 1	Hawks	5 - 4	Wakui (3-3)	Houlton (1-1)		14,659	19-12-1
33	May 2	@Marines	0 - 5	Kishi (3-1)	Shimizu (3-3)		9,659	20-12-1
34	May 3	@Marines	10 - 1	Karakawa (2-0)	Nishiguchi (0-3)		30,014	20-13-1
35	May 4	@Marines	0 - 4	Hoashi (3-0)	Kobayashi (1-5)		30,023	21-13-1
36	May 5	Fighters	8 - 6	Onodera (2-2)	Takeda (2-2)	Graman (8)	34,783	22-13-1
37	May 6	Fighters	3 - 1	Ishii (5-1)	Miyanishi (0-2)		27,340	23-13-1
38	May 7	Fighters	4 - 3	Hoshino (2-0)	Darvish (5-1)		15,574	24-13-1
39	May 9	@Buffaloes	2 - 3	Kishi (4-1)	Ortiz (0-2)	Graman (9)	14,670	25-13-1
—	May 10	@Buffaloes	Postponed (rained out)
40	May 11	@Buffaloes	0 - 9	Hoashi (4-0)	Kaneko (2-4)		12,678	26-13-1
41	May 13	@Hawks	4 - 2	Wada (4-0)	Ishii (5-2)	Houlton (5)	20,606	26-14-1
42	May 14	@Hawks	4 - 11	Wakui (4-3)	Guttormson (1-2)		33,629	27-14-1
43	May 15	@Hawks	3 - 10	Nishiguchi (1-3)	Powell (1-2)		31,793	28-14-1
44	May 16	@Eagles	8 - 2	Iwakuma (6-2)	Kishi (4-2)		12,057	28-15-1
45	May 17	@Eagles	3 - 2 (12)	Kawagishi (1-1)	Okamoto (0-1)		14,265	28-16-1
46	May 18	@Eagles	3 - 7	Hsu (1-0)	Tanaka (4-3)		20,253	29-16-1
47	May 21	Swallows	4 - 5	Rios (2-5)	Onodera (2-3)	Lim (13)	15,683	29-17-1
48	May 22	Swallows	7 - 2	Wakui (5-3)	Muranaka (3-5)		14,236	30-17-1
49	May 23	Giants	10 - 1	Kishi (5-2)	Greisinger (5-2)		24,137	31-17-1
50	May 24	Giants	4 - 2	Hoashi (5-0)	Nomaguchi (1-2)	Graman (10)	34,432	32-17-1
51	May 25	@Tigers	5 - 1	Kubota (2-1)	Onodera (2-4)		43,516	32-18-1
52	May 26	@Tigers	2 - 1 (11)	Watanabe (2-0)	Graman (1-1)		41,970	32-19-1
53	May 28	@Carp	3 - 5	Ishii (6-2)	Oshima (0-2)	Graman (11)	7,041	33-19-1
54	May 29	@Carp	3 - 1	Lewis (7-4)	Wakui (5-4)	Nagakawa (6)	15,267	33-20-1
55	May 31	Dragons	3 - 4	Kawakami (3-3)	Onuma (1-2)	Iwase (16)	32,788	33-21-1

June

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
56	June 1	Dragons	10 - 3	Hoashi (6-0)	Nakata (4-4)		33,157	34-21-1
57	June 3	BayStars	7 - 3	Nishiguchi (2-3)	Oyamada (1-3)		11,477	35-21-1
58	June 4	BayStars	2 - 1	Ishii (7-2)	Kuwahara (0-1)	Graman (12)	13,416	36-21-1
59	June 6	@Swallows	7 - 1	Tateyama (5-1)	Wakui (5-5)		7,733	36-22-1
60	June 7	@Swallows	3 - 5	Kishi (6-2)	Kawashima (1-2)	Graman (13)	11,232	37-22-1
61	June 8	@Giants	4 - 0	Utsumi (4-4)	Hsu (1-1)		43,051	37-23-1
62	June 9	@Giants	3 - 9	Nishiguchi (3-3)	Greisinger (6-4)		44,284	38-23-1
63	June 11	Tigers	4 - 6	Uezono (2-0)	Ishii (7-3)	Fujikawa (23)	32,383	38-24-1
64	June 12	Tigers	6 - 3	Wakui (6-5)	Iwata (5-3)		28,456	39-24-1
65	June 14	Carp	1 - 8	Hasegawa (3-5)	Kishi (6-3)		30,374	39-25-1
66	June 15	Carp	2 - 4	Lewis (10-4)	Hoashi (6-1)	Nagakawa (11)	28,657	39-26-1
67	June 17	@Dragons	5 - 4	Iwase (2-2)	Okamoto (0-1)		10,944	39-27-1
68	June 18	@Dragons	3 - 2	Ogasawara (7-4)	Wakui (6-6)	Iwase (21)	13,632	39-28-1
69	June 21	@BayStars	5 - 4 (10)	Terahara (3-5)	Graman (1-2)		14,165	39-29-1
—	June 22	@BayStars	Postponed (rained out)
70	June 23	@BayStars	10 - 5	Wood (1-6)	Ishii (7-4)		8,251	39-30-1
71	June 27	Marines	4 - 1	Hoashi (7-1)	Naruse (4-4)	Graman (14)	20,289	40-30-1
72	June 28	Marines	3 - 11	Watanabe (6-4)	Kishi (6-4)		29,507	40-31-1
73	June 29	Marines	9 - 5	Nishiguchi (4-3)	Kobayashi (2-8)		25,666	41-31-1

July

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
74	July 1	@Fighters	7 - 12	Onodera (3-4)	Miyanishi (2-3)		22,125	42-31-1
75	July 2	@Fighters	6 - 8	Wakui (7-6)	Glynn (3-11)	Graman (15)	17,682	43-31-1
76	July 3	@Fighters	6 - 4	Darvish (9-3)	Hoashi (7-2)	Nakamura (14)	24,420	43-32-1
77	July 5	Eagles	3 - 2	Kishi (7-4)	Tanaka (6-5)	Graman (16)	29,719	44-32-1
78	July 6	Eagles	5 - 7	Aoyama (2-2)	Hsu (1-2)	Kawagishi (1)	25,654	44-33-1
79	July 8	Hawks	2 - 5	Sugiuchi (7-5)	Ishii (7-5)		13,486	44-34-1
80	July 9	Hawks	2 - 7	Guttormson (4-4)	Wakui (7-7)		15,674	44-35-1
81	July 11	@Buffaloes	4 - 12	Hoashi (8-2)	Ortiz (3-6)		15,296	45-35-1
82	July 12	@Buffaloes	2 - 4	Shotsu (1-0)	Kato (1-3)	Graman (17)	13,321	46-35-1
83	July 13	@Buffaloes	4 - 1	Kaneko (5-6)	Nishiguchi (4-4)	Kato (19)	13,312	46-36-1
84	July 15	@Hawks	13 - 4	Sugiuchi (8-5)	Ishii (7-6)		35,706	46-37-1
85	July 16	@Hawks	6 - 5 (12)	Mise (2-0)	Hoshino (2-1)		35,674	46-38-1
86	July 18	@Marines	6 - 8	Hoashi (9-2)	Karakawa (5-2)	Graman (18)	17,394	47-38-1
87	July 19	@Marines	10 - 17	Hoshino (3-1)	Naruse (6-5)	Onodera (1)	25,823	48-38-1
88	July 20	@Marines	16 - 0	Watanabe (8-4)	Nishiguchi (4-5)		26,365	48-39-1
89	July 21	Eagles	6 - 4	Shotsu (2-0)	Koyama (2-5)	Graman (19)	25,431	49-39-1
90	July 22	Eagles	14 - 2	Wakui (8-7)	Hasebe (0-2)		16,103	50-39-1
91	July 23	Eagles	14 - 5	Hirano (1-0)	Guzmán (2-6)		17,028	51-39-1
92	July 25	@Fighters	2 - 1	Tadano (6-3)	Hoashi (9-3)	Nakamura (18)	23,323	51-40-1
93	July 26	@Fighters	3 - 6	Iwasaki (2-0)	Kanamori (0-1)	Graman (20)	33,538	52-40-1
94	July 27	@Fighters	2 - 3 (10)	Graman (2-2)	Takeda (3-4)		36,064	53-40-1
95	July 28	Buffaloes	2 - 6	Komatsu (7-3)	Wakui (8-8)		14,768	53-41-1
96	July 29	Buffaloes	4 - 2	Ishii (8-6)	Yoshino (1-3)	Graman (21)	17,016	54-41-1

August

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
97	August 3	Marines	3 - 4	Watanabe (9-4)	Hirano (1-1)	Ogino (16)	14,134	54-42-1
98	August 4	Marines	16 - 2	Kishi (8-4)	Shimizu (8-7)		11,355	55-42-1
99	August 10	Fighters	11 - 2	Hoashi (10-3)	Tadano (6-5)		30,024	56-42-1
100	August 11	Fighters	3 - 0	Kishi (9-4)	Takeda (6-4)	Graman (22)	19,260	57-42-1
101	August 12	Fighters	8 - 4	Onodera (4-4)	Takeda (3-5)		19,055	58-42-1
102	August 13	@Eagles	11 - 7	Nagai (6-6)	Ishii (8-7)		20,405	58-43-1
103	August 14	@Eagles	2 - 8	Nishiguchi (5-5)	Aoyama (2-6)		19,227	59-43-1
104	August 15	@Eagles	9 - 4	Asai (8-7)	Hirano (1-2)		19,981	59-44-1
105	August 16	Buffaloes	8 - 7 (10)	Graman (3-2)	Shimizu (4-1)		27,363	60-44-1
106	August 17	Buffaloes	4 - 1	Kishi (10-4)	Yamamoto (8-3)		19,027	61-44-1
107	August 18	Buffaloes	4 - 7	Katsuki (2-0)	Okamoto (0-2)	Kato (26)	12,160	61-45-1
108	August 19	Hawks	12 - 3	Ishii (9-7)	Houlton (4-4)		16,161	62-45-1
109	August 20	Hawks	7 - 1	Nishiguchi (6-5)	Arakaki (0-4)		17,513	63-45-1
110	August 21	Hawks	5 - 9	Powell (2-6)	Okamoto (0-2)		18,195	63-46-1
111	August 24	@Fighters	9 - 3	Tadano (7-5)	Hoashi (10-4)		22,583	63-47-1
112	August 25	@Fighters	3 - 4	Onodera (5-4)	Takeda (3-7)	Graman (23)	21,840	64-47-1
113	August 26	Eagles	2 - 7	Iwakuma (17-3)	Kinney (2-2)		13,491	64-48-1
114	August 27	Eagles	7 - 2	Ishii (10-7)	Asai (8-8)	Graman (24)	17,760	65-48-1
115	August 28	Eagles	5 - 4	Nishiguchi (7-5)	Kitani (0-1)	Graman (25)	16,555	66-48-1
116	August 29	@Hawks	4 - 4 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings				66-48-2
117	August 30	@Hawks	2 - 2 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings				66-48-3
118	August 31	@Hawks	0 - 0 (12)	Game tied after 12 innings				66-48-4

September

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
119	September 2	@Marines	8 - 5	Watanabe (12-5)	Ishii (10-8)		14,269	66-49-4
120	September 3	@Marines	0 - 2	Nishiguchi (8-5)	Kubo (2-7)	Graman (26)	17,361	67-49-4
121	September 4	@Marines	4 - 3	Kawasaki (2-4)	Wakui (8-9)	Ogino (22)	16,534	67-50-4
122	September 5	@Buffaloes	8 - 3	Kishida (3-0)	Hoashi (10-5)		11,284	67-51-4
123	September 6	@Buffaloes	1 - 7	Kishi (11-4)	Yamamoto (9-5)		16,385	68-51-4
124	September 7	@Buffaloes	6 - 2	Kaneko (10-8)	Kinney (2-3)		18,431	68-52-4
125	September 9	Fighters	1 - 4	Darvish (13-4)	Ishii (10-9)	Nakamura (24)	14,554	68-53-4
126	September 10	Fighters	5 - 6	Sakamoto (4-1)	Nishiguchi (8-6)	Nakamura (25)	14,292	68-54-4
127	September 11	Fighters	5 - 3	Wakui (9-9)	Sweeney (11-4)	Graman (27)	14,016	69-54-4
128	September 13	@Eagles	0 - 12	Hoashi (11-5)	Katayama (2-6)		17,909	70-54-4
129	September 14	@Eagles	5 - 4	Arime (2-2)	Onodera (5-5)	Gwyn (3)	19,956	70-55-4
130	September 15	@Eagles	5 - 6	Shotsu (3-0)	Gwyn (1-1)	Graman (28)	17,188	71-55-4
131	September 16	Marines	4 - 3	Ishii (11-9)	Watanabe (12-7)	Graman (29)	14,250	72-55-4
132	September 17	Marines	5 - 4 (10)	Onuma (2-2)	Kawasaki (2-5)		14,493	73-55-4
133	September 18	Marines	3 - 6	Shimizu (12-9)	Wakui (9-10)	Ogino (26)	14,075	73-56-4
134	September 20	@Hawks	0 - 1 (10)	Hoshino (4-1)	Wada (8-6)	Graman (30)	29,788	74-56-4
135	September 21	@Hawks	5 - 10	Kishi (12-4)	Guttormson (4-7)	Graman (31)	32,108	75-56-4
136	September 22	Eagles	1 - 6	Iwakuma (20-3)	Ishii (11-10)		26,361	75-57-4
137	September 23	Eagles	7 - 10	Kawagishi (3-3)	Graman (3-3)		33,229	75-58-4
138	September 24	Marines	1 - 9	Kubo (3-7)	Wakui (9-11)		28,613	75-59-4
139	September 26	@Fighters	2 - 0	Sweeney (12-5)	Hoashi (11-6)	Tateyama (2)	28,331	75-60-4
140	September 27	@Fighters	5 - 4	Glynn (7-14)	Hsu (1-3)	Nakamura (28)	35,460	75-61-4
141	September 28	Buffaloes	2 - 7	Komatsu (5-3)	Kinney (2-4)		33,229	75-62-4
142	September 29	Buffaloes	3 - 4 (10)	Katsuki (4-0)	Onuma (2-3)		27,611	75-63-4

October

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
143	October 1	@Marines	5 - 9	Wakui (10-11)	Watanabe (13-8)		24,752	76-63-4
144	October 4	@Eagles	4 - 3 (10)	Kawagishi (4-3)	Onuma (2-4)		14,063	76-64-4

Post-season

Climax Series

The Lions were automatically sent to the second stage of the Climax Series to play the winner out of the Stage 1, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters who defeated the Orix Buffaloes. Saitama Seibu Lions win the series, 4-2 (Saitama Seibu Lions have a one-win advantage)

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters - 3, Saitama Seibu Lions - 10	October 17	Omiya Park Baseball Stadium	20,500^[2]
2	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters - 5, Saitama Seibu Lions - 0	October 18	Seibu Dome	30,918^[3]
3	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters - 7, Saitama Seibu Lions - 4	October 19	Seibu Dome	33,078^[4]
4	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters - 4, Saitama Seibu Lions - 9	October 21	Seibu Dome	18,704^[5]
5	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters - 0, Saitama Seibu Lions - 9	October 22	Seibu Dome	21,731^[6]

Japan Series

The Lions win the series, 4-3, against the Yomiuri Giants, the champions of the Central League.

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	Saitama Seibu Lions - 2, Yomiuri Giants - 1	November 1	Tokyo Dome	44,757^[7]
2	Saitama Seibu Lions - 2, Yomiuri Giants - 3	November 2	Tokyo Dome	44,814^[8]
3	Yomiuri Giants - 6, Saitama Seibu Lions - 4	November 4	Seibu Dome	24,495^[9]
4	Yomiuri Giants - 0, Saitama Seibu Lions - 5	November 5	Seibu Dome	27,930^[10]
5	Yomiuri Giants - 7, Saitama Seibu Lions - 3	November 6	Seibu Dome	28,763^[11]
6	Saitama Seibu Lions - 4, Yomiuri Giants - 1	November 8	Tokyo Dome	44,749^[12]
7	Saitama Seibu Lions - 3, Yomiuri Giants - 2	November 9	Tokyo Dome	44,737^[13]

Asia Series

The Lions won the series 1-0 against the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 1-0, the champions of the 2008 Chinese Professional Baseball League.

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	Saitama Seibu Lions - 3, SK Wyverns - 4	November 13	Tokyo Dome	9,277^[14]
2	Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions - 1, Saitama Seibu Lions - 2	November 14	Tokyo Dome	8,443^[15]
3	Tianjin Lions - 2, Saitama Seibu Lions - 16	November 15	Tokyo Dome	8,478^[16]
4 F	Saitama Seibu Lions - 1, Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions - 0	November 16	Tokyo Dome	18,370^[17]

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
Shogo Akada	68	160	29	39	7	1	2	13	.244	2
Hiram Bocachica	78	239	43	60	13	0	20	47	.251	3
Craig Brazell	130	471	59	110	19	0	27	37	.234	0
Akira Eto	42	97	9	20	1	0	7	17	.206	0
Taketoshi Goto	49	166	34	50	14	0	12	27	.301	0
Alex Graman	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takuya Hara	3	6	1	3	1	0	0	0	.500	0
Masamitsu Hirano	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Hiroshi Hirao	55	93	15	24	4	0	2	9	.258	1
Kazuyuki Hoashi	27	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Hidekazu Hoshi	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Tomoki Hoshino	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Toru Hosokawa	133	404	42	96	20	1	16	58	.238	0
Ming-Chieh Hsu	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Kazuhisa Ishii	25	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Yoshihito Ishii	108	306	31	85	21	1	4	29	.278	0
Tetsuya Iwasaki	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Yasuyuki Kataoka	139	582	85	167	25	6	4	46	.287	50
Matt Kinney	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takayuki Kishi	26	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Takumi Kuriyama	138	527	76	167	31	3	11	72	.317	17
Haruki Kurose	18	38	7	8	2	0	1	5	.211	0
Kenta Matsusaka	55	91	11	24	6	3	1	12	.264	2
Koji Mitsui	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Taka Miura	8	7	1	2	0	0	0	1	.286	0
Keisuke Mizuta	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Hiroyuki Nakajima	124	486	75	161	32	0	21	81	.331	25
Takeya Nakamura	143	524	90	128	24	4	46	101	.244	2
Fumiya Nishiguchi	22	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	.250	0
Kosuke Noda	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	.111	0
Atsushi Okamoto	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Shinya Okamoto	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Chikara Onodera	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Koji Onuma	52	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Shuichiro Osada	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Yutaro Osaki	5	9	0	1	1	0	0	0	.111	0
Hiroyuki Oshima	38	74	6	18	4	0	2	7	.243	0
Takahiko Sato	105	388	62	117	30	1	21	62	.302	1
Tomoaki Satoh	59	126	23	38	8	1	1	11	.302	4
Eiji Shotsu	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Ginjiro Sumitani	46	64	5	8	4	0	0	5	.125	0
Hiroyuki Takagi	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Hisashi Takayama	25	42	6	10	2	0	0	3	.238	0
Shinji Taninaka	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Tatsuyuki Uemoto	17	14	1	1	1	0	0	0	.071	0
Hideaki Wakui	25	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Minoru Yamagishi	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
Satoshi Yamazaki	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0

^[18]

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	K
Alex Graman	3	3	1.42	55	31	57	12	9	13	42
Masamitsu Hirano	1	2	8.28	11	0	25	29	23	11	21
Kazuyuki Hoashi	11	6	2.63	27	0	174.2	59	51	38	115
Tomoki Hoshino	4	1	2.38	63	0	34	9	9	15	23
Ming-Chieh Hsu	1	3	5.12	17	0	31.2	21	18	22	11
Kazuhisa Ishii	11	10	4.32	25	0	135.1	78	65	40	108
Tetsuya Iwasaki	2	0	5.57	20	0	21	16	13	4	10
Matt Kinney	2	4	4.48	17	0	80.1	47	40	35	64
Takayuki Kishi	12	4	3.42	26	0	168.1	65	64	48	138
Koji Mitsui	1	1	7.50	23	0	24	20	20	10	12
Fumiya Nishiguchi	8	6	5.03	22	0	116.1	69	65	48	92
Atsushi Okamoto	0	2	5.51	14	0	16.1	16	10	10	9
Shinya Okamoto	0	2	3.83	47	0	42.1	18	18	21	42
Chikara Onodera	5	5	3.56	50	1	55.2	26	22	22	38
Koji Onuma	2	4	3.69	52	1	83	34	34	36	64
Shuichiro Osada	0	0	0.00	1	0	1.1	0	0	0	1
Eiji Shotsu	3	0	2.35	32	0	30.2	11	8	13	16
Shinji Taninaka	0	0	2.77	11	0	13	4	4	3	11
Hideaki Wakui	10	11	3.90	25	0	173	80	75	51	122
Minoru Yamagishi	0	0	5.40	4	0	8.1	8	5	2	2
Satoshi Yamazaki	0	0	6.35	3	0	5.2	4	4	7	3

^[19]

References

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[2008splits-1] "2008 Pacific League Standings". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved 2009-04-27.

[PL_2S_Game_1-2] "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 1".

[PL_2S_Game_2-3] "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 2".

[PL_2S_Game_3-4] "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 3".

[PL_2S_Game_4-5] "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 4".

[PL_2S_Game_5-6] "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 5".

[JS_Game_1-7] "2008 Japan Series Game 1".

[JS_Game_2-8] "2008 Japan Series Game 2".

[JS_Game_3-9] "2008 Japan Series Game 3".

[JS_Game_4-10] "2008 Japan Series Game 4".

[JS_Game_5-11] "2008 Japan Series Game 5".

[JS_Game_6-12] "2008 Japan Series Game 6".

[JS_Game_7-13] "2008 Japan Series Game 7".

[AS_PR_Game_1-14] "2008 Asia Series Preliminary Round Game 1".

[AS_PR_Game_2-15] "2008 Asia Series Preliminary Round Game 2".

[AS_PR_Game_3-16] "2008 Asia Series Preliminary Round Game 3". - 7 Innings

[AS_Final-17] "2008 Asia Series Final".

[18] ttp://bis.npb.or.jp/eng/2008/stats/idb1_l.html

[19] ttp://bis.npb.or.jp/eng/2008/stats/idp1_l.html

2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season
2008 Japan Series champions
Manager	Hisanobu Watanabe
Owner(s)	Seibu Group
Arena	Seibu Dome
Results
Record	76–64–4 (.543)
Place	1st (PL)
Saitama Seibu Lions seasons
← 2007 2009 →

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