2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season
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.
2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season | |
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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 |
Regular season
Standings
Pacific League | G | W | L | T | Win% | GB |
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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 |
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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 |
Game log
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
References
- "2008 Pacific League Standings". Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
- "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 1".
- "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 2".
- "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 3".
- "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 4".
- "2008 PL Climax Series 2nd Stage Game 5".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 1".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 2".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 3".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 4".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 5".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 6".
- "2008 Japan Series Game 7".
- "2008 Asia Series Preliminary Round Game 1".
- "2008 Asia Series Preliminary Round Game 2".
- "2008 Asia Series Preliminary Round Game 3". - 7 Innings
- "2008 Asia Series Final".
- http://bis.npb.or.jp/eng/2008/stats/idb1_l.html
- http://bis.npb.or.jp/eng/2008/stats/idp1_l.html