Fighters clinch pennant

Fighters clinch pennant

SAPPORO, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters rookie manager Hideki Kuriyama is tossed up in the air at Sapporo Dome in Hokkaido on Oct. 2, 2012, after the team clinched its pennant victory in Japanese professional baseball's Pacific League. Kuriyama became the first skipper in his first year to win the pennant since Seibu Lions' Hisanobu Watanabe achieved the feat in 2008.

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