2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters season

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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

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

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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
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 144 73 69 2 .514 4
Chiba Lotte Marines 144 73 70 1 .510
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

Roster

2008 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders Manager

Postseason

Climax Series

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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 23 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 23 46 40 41 76
Ryan Glynn 7 14 3.64 26 .333 0 163 13 74 66 61 99
Yachiho Hoshino 2 1 4.94 23 .667 0 23 23 17 13 6 11
Takeshi Ito 0 0 5.40 4 .000 0 3 13 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 23 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 13 9 5 4 6
Naoki Miyanishi 2 4 4.73 50 .333 0 45 13 24 22 15 25
Micheal Nakamura 2 2 2.14 46 .500 28 46 13 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 13 57 56 22 61
Hisashi Takeda 4 7 4.40 62 .364 6 61 13 31 30 19 40
Masaru Takeda 8 7 2.96 20 .533 0 121 23 44 40 19 68
Yoshinori Tateyama 1 2 3.07 58 .333 2 67 13 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 23 8 8 3 10
Mitsuo Yoshikawa 2 4 6.23 7 .333 0 34 23 24 24 22 23
     Indicates PL leader in the category

References