2007 Japan Series

2007 Japan Series
Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season Chunichi Dragons (4) Hiromitsu Ochiai 78–64–2, (.549), GB: 1.5 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (1) Trey Hillman 79–60–5, (.568), GA: 2
Dates	October 27 – November 1
MVP	Norihiro Nakamura (Dragons)
Broadcast
Television	TV Asahi (ANN, Game 1) TV Tokyo (Game 2, 5, aired on 6 TXN stations, Gifu Broadcasting, Mie TV, Biwako Broadcasting, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, Nara TV and TV Wakayama) Tokai TV and Fuji TV (Fuji Network, Game 3) CBC (JNN, Game 4)
Streaming
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The 2007 Japan Series, the 58th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series, began Saturday, October 27, 2007, pitting the Pacific League Regular League and Climax Series' Champion, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and the Chunichi Dragons, winners of the Central League's Climax Series, in a rematch of the previous year's Japan Series, won by the Fighters. It was the first championship for the Dragons since the 1954 Japan Series, marking the end of the longest championship drought in NPB history.

In a virtual mirror image of the 2006 series, the Dragons won in the same manner that the Fighters had the previous year, losing the first game and sweeping the next four. In one of baseball's rare situations, for the first time in a recognised WBSC premiership championship final since the 1956 Major League Baseball championship series, and the first one to end a series in a major professional championship, a perfect game was pitched, although recognised only by international standards and not NPB because multiple pitchers were used because NPB's definition is different from most recognised authorities. This would also be the last time a perfect game was thrown in NPB until Roki Sasaki threw a perfect game against the Orix Buffaloes on April 10, 2022.

Chunichi Dragons won the series, 4–1.

This was the first perfect game in Japan Series history, but it is only recognised as such by the global governing body of baseball, the World Baseball Softball Confederation because the NPB definition requires one pitcher to pitch all nine innings, excluding combined no-hitters or perfect games, and exclude runners who score on walks, and advance by means that do not involve a hit that later score.

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