2011 Japan Series
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| Dates | November 12–20 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Hiroki Kokubo (Hawks) | ||||||||||||
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In Japan: TV Nishinippon and Fuji TV (Game 1) TV Tokyo (Games 2, 5) Tokai TV and Fuji TV (Games 3) TBS (Games 4, 7) KBC and TV Asahi (Game 6) |
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| TV announcers | Nobuo Yoshida(Fuji TV), Tomoki Uekusa (TV Tokyo), Atsushi Moriwaki (Tokai TV), Hiroyuki Takada (CBC), Takao Nakayama (TV Asahi), Masahiro Hayashi (TBS) | ||||||||||||
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| Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (4) | Koji Akiyama | 88–46–10, .657, GA: 17.5 | |
| Chunichi Dragons (3) | Hiromitsu Ochiai | 75–59–10, .560, GA: 2.5 |
The 2011 Japan Series was the 62nd edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff matched the Chunichi Dragons and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the respective champions of the Central League's and the Pacific League's Climax Series (postseason). The Series began on Saturday, November 12, 2011 and was a rematch of the 1999 Japan Series, which the Hawks won, four games to one.
The Hawks won the series in seven games, claiming their fifth Japan Series crown.
PL Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (4) vs. CL Chunichi Dragons (3)
After not having won a playoff series since 2003 when they won the Japan Series that year, the Hawks finally broke through against the Saitama Seibu Lions. Earning a first-round bye and a one-game advantage in the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage, the Hawks completed the sweep of the Lions to earn their spot in the Japan Series.
During the regular season, the Hawks were the best team in the league record-wise at 88-46-10. They scored the second-most runs in the league (550) and allowed the fewest (351), while also stealing the most bases and leading the league in team batting average (.267). Leading the team offensively was new acquisition Seiichi Uchikawa, who led the entire league in batting average at .338. He was helped by two longtime Hawks mainstays at the top of the lineup, Munenori Kawasaki and Yuichi Honda, who stole 91 bases between them. Providing the power was Nobuhiro Matsuda, who finally had a breakout season with 25 home runs and 83 runs batted in, both team highs.
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