Hitoki Iwase celebrates saving the last game of the 2007 Japan Series

The 2007 Japan Series was the 58th match-up of the champions of the Central League and Pacific League, Japan's top two circuits. The Series was a rematch of the 2006 Japan Series, which Nippon Ham had won in five games. Both teams had worse records in the regular season than in 2006. Chunichi had not had the CL's best record but the Central League had gone to a playoff format for the first time in its 58-year history and they topped the Yomiuri Giants in the postseason. Chunichi won in five games to end a 53-year title drought. The Series features Yu Darvish setting a single-game Japan Series strikeout record and the only perfect game in Series history (a combined effort by Daisuke Yamai and Hitoki Iwase). The Series MVP was Norihiro Nakamura.

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• ...that Brandon Sing almost broke a decades-old home run record but was denied by the weather?
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• Joaquín Andújar and Neifi Pérez are inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
• The Leones del Escogido win the Dominican League pennant for the 14th time.
• The Tigres de Aragua win their 9th Venezuelan League title.
• The Yaquis de Obregón take their second straight Mexican Pacific League championship.
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• February 2, 2012 - The 2012 Caribbean Series opened in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• January 9, 2012 - Results of the 2012 Hall of Fame Election were announced
• December 5-8, 2011 - The annual Winter Meetings took place in Dallas, TX
• December 5 - Results of the Veterans Committee Hall of Fame election were announced.
• November 25 - The 2011 Asia Series began.
• November 12 - The 2011 Japan Series began.

• February 11, 2012 - Induction ceremonies for the 2012 class of inductees to the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame in La Romana, Dominican Republic
• March 2, 2012 - Spring training games begin in the Grapefruit League and Cactus League
• March 28, 2012 - Major League Baseball opens its season in Tokyo, Japan
• April 4, 2012 - Opening Day in the National League as the Miami Marlins inaugurate their new name and ballpark
• June 4, 2012 - The 2012 amateur draft will be held
• June 27, 2012 - The annual SABR convention takes place in Minneapolis, MN
• July 10, 2012 - The 2012 All-Star Game will be played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, MO
• July 22, 2012 - The annual ­Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, NY