2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season

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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

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
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

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

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 Sato 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

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