2002 MLB Japan All-Star Series

The 2002 MLB Japan All-Star Series was the eighth edition of the championship, a best-of-eight series between the All-Star teams from Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

MLB won the series by 5–3–0 and Torii Hunter was named MVP.

Results

Championship

Game	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
1	MLB All-Stars	08-01	NPB Giants	Tokyo Dome
2	NPB All-Stars	08-04	MLB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
3	NPB All-Stars	08-02	MLB All-Stars	Fukuoka Dome
4	NPB All-Stars	08-06	MLB All-Stars	Osaka Dome
5	MLB All-Stars	06-05	NPB All-Stars	Sapporo Dome
6	MLB All-Stars	04-00	NPB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
7	MLB All-Stars	12-07	NPB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
8	MLB All-Stars	04-02	NPB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome

Rosters

MLB All-Stars roster

Pitchers 43 Miguel Batista 56 Mark Buehrle 40 Bartolo Colón 39 Mike Fetters 38 Éric Gagné 50 Brian Lawrence 13 Rodrigo López 24 Tomo Ohka 31 Brad Penny 33 J. C. Romero 60 Scott Schoeneweis 43 Randy Wolf

Catchers 16 Paul Lo Duca 26 A. J. Pierzynski Infielders 12 Roberto Alomar 03 Eric Chávez 22 David Eckstein 25 Jason Giambi 11 Eric Hinske 25 Derrek Lee 11 Jimmy Rollins 37 Junior Spivey

Oufielders 25 Barry Bonds 05 Pat Burrell 48 Torii Hunter 11 Jacque Jones 51 Ichiro Suzuki 51 Bernie Williams Coaching Staff 18 Art Howe 02 Sandy Alomar, Sr. 08 Rudy Jaramillo 36 Rick Peterson

NPB All-Stars roster

Pitchers 99 Chang Chih-Chia 18 Shugo Fujii 53 Ryota Igarashi 29 Kei Igawa 61 Hirotoshi Ishii 11 Kenshin Kawakami 30 Masahide Kobayashi 29 Koji Mitsui 19 Shinji Mori 39 Yasuhiro Oyamada 19 Koji Uehara

Catchers 10 Shinnosuke Abe 08 Masaumi Shimizu 07 Motonobu Tanishige Infielders 42 Alex Cabrera 07 Makoto Imaoka 05 Takuro Ishii 01 Akinori Iwamura 09 Hiroki Kokubo 07 Kazuo Matsui 05 Norihiro Nakamura 02 Michihiro Ogasawara

Outfielders 01 Kosuke Fukudome 55 Hideki Matsui 09 Takayuki Shimizu 10 Yoshitomo Tani 05 Kazuhiro Wada Coaching Staff 83 Tatsunori Hara