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Sports season
The2012 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 63rd season since the NPB was reorganized in1950 .
Regular season standings [ edit ] 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 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 1 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 4 2 Saitama Seibu Lions 1 3 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 0 3 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 2
The regular season league champions, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received byes to the championship round.
Chunichi Dragons (2) vs.Tokyo Yakult Swallows (1)
Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 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 – 0Nagoya Dome 3:26 33,852[ 2] 3 October 15 Tokyo Yakult Swallows – 1,Chunichi Dragons – 4 Nagoya Dome 3:39 23,264[ 3]
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2) vs.Saitama Seibu Lions (1)
Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 1 October 13 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2, Saitama Seibu Lions – 1Seibu 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 – 2Seibu Dome 3:23 25,002[ 6]
The regular season league champions, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received a one-game advantage.
Yomiuri Giants (4) vs.Chunichi Dragons (3)
Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 1 October 17 Chunichi Dragons – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 1Tokyo Dome 3:21 40,039[ 7] 2 October 18 Chunichi Dragons – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 2Tokyo Dome 3:40 39,135[ 8] 3 October 19 Chunichi Dragons – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 4Tokyo 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]
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (4) vs.Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (0)
Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 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]
CLYomiuri Giants (4) vs. PLHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2)
Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 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 – 2Sapporo Dome 3:52 40,579[ 20] 6 November 3 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3,Yomiuri Giants – 4 Tokyo Dome 3:22 45,018[ 21]
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