The 2008 Saitama Seibu Lions season was the 59th season of the Saitama Seibu Lions franchise. The Lions played their home games at Seibu Dome in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama as members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led by Hisanobu Watanabe on his first season as team manager.
Seibu finished the season in first place with a record of 76–64–4, winning the team its 21st PL pennant and qualifying them for the Climax Series. In the 2008 Pacific League Climax Series, the Lions defeated the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the Second Stage and went on to win the 2008 Japan Series, its thirteenth, as well as the 2008 Asia Series.
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The SaitamaSeibuLions (埼玉西武ライオンズ, SaitamaSeibu Raionzu) are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa...
(official name: Seibu Dome (西武ドーム, Seibu Dōmu)) is a baseball stadium located in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. It is home to the SaitamaSeibuLions, a professional...
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in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yakult Swallows and SaitamaSeibuLions and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and...
were held in Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan. The SaitamaSeibuLions defeated the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions in the title game to win the championship for...
Saturday, November 1, 2008, and went the full seven games. The deciding Game 7 took place on Sunday, November 9. SaitamaSeibuLions won the series, 4–3...
Nippon-Ham Fighters won the series, 2–0. SaitamaSeibuLions won the series, 4–2*. * The Pacific League regular season champion is given a one-game advantage...
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the SeibuLions / SaitamaSeibuLions, Chiba Lotte Marines and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Wakui pitched for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing...
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