2012 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 63rd season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.
2012 NPB season | |
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League | Nippon Professional Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | March 30 – November 3, 2012 |
Central League Pennant | |
League champions | Yomiuri Giants |
Runners-up | Chunichi Dragons |
Season MVP | Shinnosuke Abe (YOM) |
Pacific League Pennant | |
League champions | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters |
Runners-up | Saitama Seibu Lions |
Season MVP | Mitsuo Yoshikawa (NIP) |
Climax Series | |
CL champions | Yomiuri Giants |
CL runners-up | Chunichi Dragons |
PL champions | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters |
PL runners-up | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
Japan Series | |
Champions | Yomiuri Giants |
Runners-up | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters |
Finals MVP | Tetsuya Utsumi (YOM) |
Regular season standings
Team | G | W | L | T | Pct. | GB |
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Yomiuri Giants | 144 | 86 | 43 | 15 | .667 | — |
Chunichi Dragons | 144 | 75 | 53 | 16 | .586 | 10.5 |
Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 144 | 68 | 65 | 11 | .511 | 20.0 |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 144 | 61 | 71 | 12 | .462 | 26.5 |
Hanshin Tigers | 144 | 55 | 75 | 14 | .423 | 31.5 |
Yokohama DeNA BayStars | 144 | 46 | 85 | 13 | .351 | 41.0 |
Team | G | W | L | T | Pct. | GB |
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Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 144 | 74 | 59 | 11 | .556 | — |
Saitama Seibu Lions | 144 | 72 | 63 | 9 | .533 | 3.0 |
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 144 | 67 | 65 | 12 | .508 | 6.5 |
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 144 | 67 | 67 | 10 | .500 | 7.5 |
Chiba Lotte Marines | 144 | 62 | 67 | 15 | .481 | 10.0 |
Orix Buffaloes | 144 | 57 | 77 | 10 | .425 | 17.5 |
Climax Series
Note: All of the games that are played in the first two rounds of the Climax Series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advances if the round ends in a tie.
First Stage | Final Stage | Japan Series | |||||||||||
Central League | 1 | Yomiuri Giants | 4 | ||||||||||
2 | Chunichi Dragons | 2 | 2 | Chunichi Dragons | 3 | ||||||||
3 | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 1 | CL1 | Yomiuri Giants | 4 | ||||||||
PL1 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 2 | |||||||||||
Pacific League | 1 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 4 | ||||||||||
2 | Saitama Seibu Lions | 1 | 3 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 0 | ||||||||
3 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 2 |
First stage
The regular season league champions, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received byes to the championship round.
Central League
Chunichi Dragons (2) vs. Tokyo Yakult Swallows (1)
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 13 | Tokyo Yakult Swallows – 1, Chunichi Dragons – 6 | Nagoya Dome | 3:11 | 31,146[1] |
2 | October 14 | Tokyo Yakult Swallows – 1, Chunichi Dragons – 0 | Nagoya Dome | 3:26 | 33,852[2] |
3 | October 15 | Tokyo Yakult Swallows – 1, Chunichi Dragons – 4 | Nagoya Dome | 3:39 | 23,264[3] |
Pacific League
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2) vs. Saitama Seibu Lions (1)
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 13 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2, Saitama Seibu Lions – 1 | Seibu Dome | 2:54 | 32,074[4] |
2 | October 14 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 0, Saitama Seibu Lions – 8 | Seibu Dome | 3:23 | 33,918[5] |
3 | October 15 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 3, Saitama Seibu Lions – 2 | Seibu Dome | 3:23 | 25,002[6] |
Final stage
The regular season league champions, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received a one-game advantage.
Central League
Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. Chunichi Dragons (3)
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 17 | Chunichi Dragons – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 1 | Tokyo Dome | 3:21 | 40,039[7] |
2 | October 18 | Chunichi Dragons – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 2 | Tokyo Dome | 3:40 | 39,135[8] |
3 | October 19 | Chunichi Dragons – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 4 | Tokyo Dome | 3:41 | 44,744[9] |
4 | October 20 | Chunichi Dragons – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3 | Tokyo Dome | 2:57 | 46,158[10] |
5 | October 21 | Chunichi Dragons – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 3 | Tokyo Dome | 3:40 | 45,897[11] |
6 | October 22 | Chunichi Dragons – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 4 | Tokyo Dome | 3:18 | 44,351[12] |
Pacific League
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (4) vs. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (0)
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 17 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3 | Sapporo Dome | 2:56 | 31,022[13] |
2 | October 18 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 0, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3 | Sapporo Dome | 3:17 | 23,610[14] |
3 | October 19 | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 4 | Sapporo Dome | 3:16 | 37,166[15] |
Japan Series
CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2)
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 27 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 8 | Tokyo Dome | 3:13 | 44,981[16] |
2 | October 28 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 1 | Tokyo Dome | 2:51 | 44,932[17] |
3 | October 30 | Yomiuri Giants – 3, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 7 | Sapporo Dome | 4:04 | 36,942[18] |
4 | October 31 | Yomiuri Giants – 0, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 1 | Sapporo Dome | 4:15 | 40,433[19] |
5 | November 1 | Yomiuri Giants – 10, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2 | Sapporo Dome | 3:52 | 40,579[20] |
6 | November 3 | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 4 | Tokyo Dome | 3:22 | 45,018[21] |
League leaders
Central League
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Pacific League
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References
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