<< The results of Japanese baseball on October 1995 >>
[Results on October 1]
Giants | 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 | 3
-----------+-----------------------+--
Swallows | 0 3 2 2 0 1 0 0 X | 8
Win : Itoh, A. ( 9W 8L )
Lost: Saitoh, M. ( 18W 9L )
HR: S Meulens 28, Joh 1
[Hara told that he would retire at the end of this season.
On his final act bat at Jingu, he hit a foul fly to the catcher]
BayStars | 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 | 6
-----------+-----------------------+--
Dragons | 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 X | 7
Win : Noguchi ( 3W 10L 2S )
Save: Nakayama ( 2W 6L 3S )
Lost: Yone ( 1W 1L )
HR: B Sindoh 11, Braggs 24, Hatayama 7
D Tatsunami 11, Taneda 7,8, Matsui, T. 1, Taihoh 23
[Yone allowed 3 homeruns in a row at the beginning (Tatsunami,
Taneda and Matsui)]
Hawks | 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 | 7
-----------+-----------------------+--
Lions | 1 0 3 1 0 0 3 0 X | 8
Win : Watanabe, H. ( 3W 4L 5S )
Lost: Yoshida, S. ( 1W 2L )
HR: L Sasaki 17, Jackson 20
[Results on October 2]
Dragons | 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 | 3
-----------+-----------------------+--
Tigers | 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 | 2
Win : Uehara ( 1W )
Save: Nakayama ( 2W 6L 4S )
Lost: Kawajiri ( 7W 11L )
HR: T Glenn 23
Buffaloes | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 | 3
-----------+-----------------------+--
BlueWave | 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 X | 5
Win : Mizuo ( 1W )
Save: Nomura ( 3W 1L 2S )
Lost: Esaka ( 2W 5L )
HR: Bu Murakami 8
BW Takahashi, S. 5, Neel 27, D.J 16, Ichiro 25
[Neel couldn't hit his 28th homer so he couldn't catch up
with Kokubo in HR king race. OTOH, Ichiro hit 2-run homer
to become a co-leader in RBI race (the other co-leader is
Hatsushiba of the Marines). But Tanaka of the Fighters
is just behind of them. Enjoy the following table]
RBI king race in Pacific League
BI name games left
80 Hatsushiba(M) 0
Ichiro(BW) 0
79 Tanaka(F) 2
(sorry I don't check other players)
HR king race in Pacific League
HR name games left
28 Kokubo(H) 0
27 Neel(BW) 0
25 Tanaka(F) 2
Hatsushiba(M) 0
Ichiro(BW) 0
24 Kiyohara(L) 3
Deucy(F) 2
FYI, in Central League, the RBI and HR king will be Etoh of the Carp.
The leading hitters of the both league will be Ichiro(BW) and
Powell(D).
[Results on October 3]
Dragons | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 | 5
-----------+---------------------------+--
Tigers | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
Win : Matsunaga ( 1W 2L 1S )
Lost: Yamazaki ( 2W 3L )
[Both pitchers didn't give up any runs until the 9th]
Giants | 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 | 3
-----------+-----------------------+--
Carp | 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 X | 6
Win : Checo ( 15W 8L )
Save: Sasaoka ( 7W 7L 16S )
Lost: Awano ( 3L )
HR: G Matsui 22
C Seto 2
[The Carp keep second with pitchers Checo-Yamauchi-Inoue-Sasaoka]
Swallows | 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 | 8
-----------+-----------------------+--
BayStars | 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 | 7
Win : Itoh, A. ( 10W 8L )
Save: Miyamoto, K. ( 2W 2S )
Lost: Miura ( 8W 7L )
HR: S O'Malley 31
B Suzuki 13
[The Swallows got the 80th victory]
Fighters | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
-----------+-----------------------+--
Lions | 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 X | 2
Win : Ono ( 7W 9L 1S )
Lost: Iwamoto ( 5W 7L )
HR: L Mori 4
[Ono shut the Fighters out, so Tanaka got no RBI]
[Results on October 4]
BayStars | 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 | 6
-----------+-----------------------+--
Tigers | 3 3 0 3 1 0 0 0 X |10
Win : Takeuchi ( 10W 8L 1S )
Lost: Igarashi ( 6W 8L 2S )
[Tiger relievers Yufune and Furumizo presented the 10th win
for rookie Takeuchi who was removed at the 6th]
Fighters | 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 | 4
-----------+-----------------------+--
Lions | 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 X | 5
Win : Shintani ( 11W 11L 1S )
Save: Watanabe, H. ( 3W 4L 6S )
Lost: Shimazaki ( 9W 7L 3S )
HR: F Deucy 25
[Tanaka finally got a RBI double at the 1st with a runner on third
to tie with Hatsushiba and Ichiro, but he couldn't get any more
RBI. As a result, three players will share the title of the RBI
king with 80 RBI(FYI, the only other possible player who can tie
or go ahead is Stevens of the Buffaloes but the Buffaloes leave
only one game and he had 70 RBI... The Japanese record of RBI in
a game is 11 :-) It is for the first time that one of three big
batting titles is shared with three or more players]
[Results on October 6]
BayStars | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 | 4
-----------+-----------------------+--
Tigers | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 | 3
Win : Tomori ( 1W 1L )
Save: Sasaki ( 7W 2L 32S )
Lost: Furumizo ( 2W 8L 19S )
[Tomori won for the first time in his career]
Carp | 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 | 2
-----------+-----------------------+--
Swallows | 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 X | 4
Win : Yamabe ( 16W 7L )
Save: Katoh ( 1W 1S )
Lost: Yamauchi ( 14W 9L )
[Yamabe seems to have an advantage in the rookie of the year.
But I'm not sure that Yamabe is qualified in the award]
Giants | 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 | 1
-----------+-----------------------+--
Dragons | 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 | 2
Win : Koike ( 6W 10L 3S )
Lost: Kawahara ( 8W 6L )
HR: G Hirosawa 20
Lions | 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 | 6
-----------+-----------------------+--
Buffaloes | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
Win : Ishii, Take. ( 10W 6L )
Lost: Nishimura ( 5W 9L )
HR: L Kiyohara 25
[All Pacific games have finished. Kokubo won the HR king,
Ichiro has became the leading hitter and a RBI king,
other two RBI kings are Hatsushiba and Tanaka]
[Results on October 7]
BayStars | 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 | 5
-----------+-----------------------+--
Dragons | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
Win : Shimada ( 9W 4L )
Save: Tomori ( 1W 1L 1S )
Lost: Endoh ( 1L )
HR: BS Haru 5
[Results on October 8]
Tigers | 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 | 4
-----------+-----------------------------+--
BayStars | 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 | 3
Win : Kawajiri ( 8W 11L )
Lost: Nomura ( 4W 7L )
HR: T Yoshida, H. 1
[The Tigers won but also the Dragons won so
it is determined for the Tigers to be the bottom]
Swallows | 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 4
-----------+-----------------------+--
Dragons | 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 X | 6
Win : Nakayama ( 3W 6L 4S )
Lost: Kitagawa ( 1L )
HR: S Takanashi 1
D Yano 1, Yamasaki 14
Carp | 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 | 3
-----------+-----------------------+--
Giants | 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 | 1
Win : Kitoh ( 10W 9L 1S )
Save: Sasaoka ( 7W 7L 17S )
Lost: Kawahara ( 8W 6L )
HR: C Oto 9
G Hara 6
[It was the retirement memorial game of 'the Giant 4th batter' Hara.
He hit his final homerun (382nd homer in his career) in his final
game. His final act bat was at the 9th inning when the Carp sent
Ohno for him. Ohno pitched only fastballs and the last batting
of Hara was a fly to left field. After the game, his retirement
celemony was held and he took off his uniform as a player forever]
[Results on October 10]
Tigers | 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 | 4
-----------+-----------------------+--
Dragons | 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 | 6
Win : Idemoto ( 2W )
Lost: Furumizo ( 2W 9L 19S )
HR: T Wada 1, Shinjo 7
D Taihoh 24, Yamasaki 15,16, Jinno 1
[Jinno's game-ending homerun saved the Dragons to
be the worst losses in a season in thier history]
BayStars | 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 | 7
-----------+-----------------------+--
Carp | 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1
Win : Shimada ( 10W 4L )
Lost: Yamauchi ( 14W 10L )
HR: B Suzuki 14
[Yamauchi couldn't get 15th win. The Bay Stars go more than .500
in this season]
[Results on October 13]
Tigers | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
-----------+-----------------------+--
Carp | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 X | 2
Win : Yamazaki ( 1W )
Lost: Takeuchi ( 10W 9L 1S )
[The first shutout game by Carp pitcher Yamazaki. This game was
the final game for Carp player Nishida, who appeared at the 8th
as a pinch hitter and hit his final base hit to left.
The number of Tighers' losses has become 84 which is now the
new worst record in the history of the Tigers]
Swallows | 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 | 4
-----------+-----------------------+--
BayStars | 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 | 3
Win : Ishii ( 13W 4L 1S )
Lost: Miura ( 8W 8L )
HR: S Meulens 29
[The Swallows sent 9 pitchers in the game. Each pitcher
pitched just one inning. Bross-Yoshii-Ishii-Yamabe-Itoh,A.
-Kawasaki-Katoh-Miyamoto,K.-Takatsu. Except for Kawasaki
who allowed 3 hits, the preparation of Swallow pitchers
for the Japan series seems to be good]
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Central League
G W L T PCT GB GL Swallows Carp Giants BayStars Dragons Tigers
Swallows 130 82 48 0 .631 0 ---- 15-11( 0) 17- 9( 0) 14-12( 0) 16-10( 0) 20- 6( 0)
Carp 131 74 56 1 .569 8.0 0 11-15( 0) ---- 15-11( 1) 13-13( 0) 16-10( 0) 19- 7( 0)
Giants 131 72 58 1 .554 10.0 0 9-17( 0) 11-15( 1) ---- 16-10( 0) 16-10( 0) 20- 6( 0)
BayStars 130 66 64 0 .508 16.0 0 12-14( 0) 13-13( 0) 10-16( 0) ---- 19- 7( 0) 12-14( 0)
Dragons 130 50 80 0 .385 32.0 0 10-16( 0) 10-16( 0) 10-16( 0) 7-19( 0) ---- 13-13( 0)
Tigers 130 46 84 0 .354 36.0 0 6-20( 0) 7-19( 0) 6-20( 0) 14-12( 0) 13-13( 0) ----
Pacific League
G W L T PCT GB GL BlueWave Marines Lions Fighters Hawks Buffaloes
BlueWave 130 82 47 1 .636 0 ---- 12-13( 1) 21- 5( 0) 18- 8( 0) 13-13( 0) 18- 8( 0)
Marines 130 69 58 3 .543 12.0 0 13-12( 1) ---- 10-15( 1) 13-13( 0) 21- 5( 0) 12-13( 1)
Lions 130 67 57 6 .540 12.5 0 5-21( 0) 15-10( 1) ---- 15-10( 1) 14- 9( 3) 18- 7( 1)
Fighters 130 59 68 3 .465 22.0 0 8-18( 0) 13-13( 0) 10-15( 1) ---- 14-11( 1) 14-11( 1)
Hawks 130 54 72 4 .429 26.5 0 13-13( 0) 5-21( 0) 9-14( 3) 11-14( 1) ---- 16-10( 0)
Buffaloes 130 49 78 3 .386 32.0 0 8-18( 0) 13-12( 1) 7-18( 1) 11-14( 1) 10-16( 0) ----
Japan Series
[Japan Series Game 1]
Oct. 21 at Kobe (night game)
Yakult Swallows | 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 | 5
----------------+-----------------------+--
Orix BlueWave | 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 | 2
Win : Bross (1W)
Save: Takatsu (1S)
Lose: Satoh (1L)
HR: S Ohno 1
The starters were Bross and Satoh both of whom
have achieved no-hitter this season. But Satoh
seemed to be so bad that he had pinch in every innings.
The reason why he didn't allow many runs is that
Blue Wave fielders helped him many times.
It is true that the Swallows won 5-2 but it seems to me
that the Swallows should have won 8-1 or so.
[Top of 2nd]
Satoh allowed 4 base hits in a row after two outs, but
Ichiro threw out runner at home so the Swallows scored
only one.
[Top of 5th]
The Swallows had chance of runners on first and third
with one out. Furuta hit a chopper on third base...
The Blue Wave third baseman Baba jumped to get it and
he threw to home and got the runner. But Satoh allowed
Ikeyama a 2-run RBI hit after he gave up a walk.
[Top of 6th]
The Swallows had chance of a runner on second with one
out. Arai hit a base hit to right field but the runner
held at third because Blue Wave right fielder Ichiro
threw the good ball to catcher though the batter advanced
to second. Dobashi struck out after he failed suicide
squeeze and the Swallows couldn't score.
[Bottom of 6th]
Neel hit a RBI hit again when runners were on first and
second with two out. The Blue Wave still had chance of
runners on first and third so they sent Fujii as a pinch
hitter. But he couldn't get hit.
[Top of 8th]
Pinch hitter Ohno hit a inside fastball and the ball
went to left stand! It was his first act bat in
Japan Series in his career.
Score book
Swallows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Iida cf W H*2 53 SH/1-2 64
Arai,Y. dh *1 4L H*3 9 H/*7 *8
Ohno ph HR/1-H
Dobashi 2b ff5 63 H K 9
O'Malley 1b W H H/1-3 IW H
Furuta c 64 7 5/*4 ff9 *9 ff2
Inaba rf 43 W W K 3A
Ikeyama ss 8 K H/*5 K ff3
Miyamoto,S. ss
Meulens 3b H 4 *6 13 K K
Yamaguchi 3b
Manaka lf H/1-3 K H H
Pitchers
Bross-Takatsu
*1: SB1-2 *2: 2-H,1-2 *3:2-H TO(92) *4:5251/1-3,B-1 *5:3-H,2-H,1-3,B-2
*6: P Itoh *7: 2-3,B-2 *8: P Kiyohara *9: P Watanabe
BlueWave 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Ichiro rf,cf 9 K 8 H/1-2
Fukura 2b 7 H 6 8
Taguchi cf,lf 8 SH/1-2 W 53
D.J 1b K 6e/*2 W 8
Ogawa ss H K K 9
Neel dh K H/*3 H/*4 3A
Takahashi,S.lf *1 K ff3 *5
Fujii ph,rf 43 K
Nakajima c 8 ff2 H
Shibahara ph K
Baba 5b K ff9 ff2/SH
Takada ph 7
Pitchers
Satoh-Itoh-Kiyohara-Watanabe
*1: SB1-2 *2:grounder 2-3,B-1 *3:3-H,1-2 *4:2-H,1-3 *5:P Takatsu
[Japan Series Game 2]
Oct. 22 at Kobe (night game)
2-0, Swallows
Yakult Swallows | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 | 3
----------------+-----------------------------+--
Orix BlueWave | 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 2
Win : Yamabe (1W)
Lose: Hirai (1L)
HR: S O'Malley 1
B D.J 1
Blue Wave starter Noda was good while Swallow starter
Ishii had quite bad control. But Ishii's control
was too bad for batters to hit :-) The Blue Wave
should have beaten the Swallows in early innings
but they couldn't. Blue Wave batters swung high
balls and missed or hit pop flies.
Hirai, Blue Wave closer, seemed bad while Yamabe,
who was not very good in end of regular season,
seemed good.
Anyway the Blue Wave are not what they were in regular season.
OTOH, the Swallows go very well maybe because they have
studied about the Blue Wave players very well (what we
call 'ID-Yakyu').
The Game 3 is held on Oct. 24 at Jingu.
[Bottom of 1st]
Ichiro was hit by pitch on ball count 2 balls and 1 strike.
Fukura hit a grounder to first. O'Malley made nice catch
to throw to second but the ball hit Ichiro's helmet (It
seemed to me that Ichiro ran so that he was on the line
of throwing to second). Taguchi tried bunt on the first
pitch but the ball went in front of catcher and Swallows
turned double play.
[Bottom of 2nd]
D.J hit a breaking ball to right stand.
[Top of 5th]
After Hata's infield hit to second, Ikeyama hit a fly to
deep center. The CF Motonishi got it at the wall with
stepping the wall. Hata thought that it would be a long
hit so he couldn't return to first in time.
[Bottom of 5th]
Baba's hit and Nakajima's sacrifice bunt made chance of
a runner on second with one out. Motonishi, who made
great catch on the top, hit a low line drive to right.
It seemed that the ball was in 'light' and RF almost
dropped it. It was good that the second runner went to
third. He returned home with Ishii's wild pitch when the
batter was Ichiro. Ishii was removed after he allowed
walks for Ichiro and Fukura. But Taguchi struck out
from reliever Miyamoto.
[Top of 6th]
There was an accident that batted ball by Manaka hit
Noda's left leg. But he continued to pitch after
a few minutes break.
[Top of 8th]
Meulens hit a blooper up the middle but it seemed
to me that 2B Fukura missed or misjudged the batted
ball (I mean that he should get it). Dobashi hit
a clutch hit on ball count 3-2. The Blue Wave sent
as relivers Nomura and Suzuki, not Hirai. Nomura
was hit a RBI hit by O'Malley and the Swallows tied
the game. Later Noda said that he would like to
get Dobashi out before 3-2 and he didn't like to face
to O'Malley. I can't understand why the BlueWave
did't send Hirai.
[Bottom of 8th]
The lead-off of this inning Fukura hit almost the same
line drive to right as Motonishi hit at the 5th. This
time RF Manaka missed the ball and it became a triple.
The following batters are 3, 4 and 5th but couldn't hit
even a SF.
[Top of 11th]
O'Malley hit the game-winning homerun to left field.
Score book
Swallows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Iida cf 53 K/*2 64/1-2 H/1-2 63
Arai,Y. dh 7 K W 8 7
Dobashi 2b,lf K 43 64 H/*4 13
O'Malley 1b ff2 K K *5 H/*6 HR
Furuta c 13 K 8 *7 13 9
Inaba lf *8
Hata ph,lf H IH H 7
Miyamoto,S. 2b *a(bottom of 9th) 7L
Ikeyama ss *1 7 8/*3 5 8 8
Meulens 3b K 8 H H
Manaka rf H H K 13
Pitchers
Ishii-Miyamoto-Katoh-Itoh,A.-Yamabe
*1:WP/1-2 *2:CS26/DP *3:83/DP *4:2-H,1-3 *5:P Nomura
*6:3-H,1-2 *7:P Suzuki *8:P Hirai
BlueWave 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Ichiro rf HB ff2 *5 W K *9 8
Fukura 2b 3e/*1 K *2 W T
Kazaoka pr,2b K
Taguchi lf B253/DP *3 9 *6 K *7 9 7
Neel dh K 9 K 7 63
Ogawa ss K K
Suguro ss*4 H K
Takahashi,S. ph 63
D.J 1b HR K K HB
Matsuyama pr*a
Fujii 1b K
Baba 3b 53 H 43 *8 SH/1-2
Nakajima c K SH/1-2 4 *a 6
Motonishi cf W 9L/2-3 43 7
*1:3e(-6)/1-2,B-1 *2:SB/1-2 *3:WP/2-3 *4:top of 5th *5:WP/3-H
*6:P Miyamoto,K. *7:P Katoh *8:P Itoh *9:P Yamabe *a:pr and lf
Pitchers
Noda-Nomura-Suzuki-Hirai
[Japan Series Game 3]
Oct. 24 at Jingu (night game)
3-0, Swallows
Orix BlueWave | 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 | 4
----------------+---------------------------+--
Yakult Swallows | 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 | 7
Win : Takatsu ( 1W 1S )
Lose: Hirai ( 2L )
HR: S Meulens 1, Ikeyama 1
The game was a contest of closers and Takatsu won.
The Swallows tied the game with Meulens' homerun and
won with Ikeyama's 3-run homerun.
[Top of 5th]
Ichiro appeared at the chance of runners on first and third
with 1 out. He swung a low forkball and the ball went to
deep right... RF Hashigame made nice catch at the wall so
it was only a sacrifice fly.
[Bottom of 5th]
The Swallows sent Arai as a pinch hitter for Hashigami
who made the nice catch on the top after Meulens' single.
The Swallows tried hit and run (I think), but Arai missed..
The thrown ball to second made one-hop and 2B couldn't catch
it. If he could catch it, then Meulen would be out.
After Arai's sacrifice bunt, pinch hitter Inaba hit a fly
to left ... it was not deep so I thought that Blue Wave
outfielder could get the runner even if the runner made
good jump... and the runner started to home... LF Taguchi
threw to home ... somehow 3B Baba relayed and Meulens scored.
I remembered old Japanese proverb "Muri ga tooreba douri hikkomu".
[Top of 7th]
Ogawa got a double to left-center field. After the Blue Wave
sent Miwa as a pinch hitter the Swallows changed the pitcher
to Miyamoto. Then the Blue Wave sent a new pinch hitter Neel
who hit a single to left. The next batter Taguchi got a
low line drive to center and the Blue Wave tied. But second
runner Neel, who over-ran second, injured one of his shoulders
and had to be removed. After Fukura's sacrifice bunt and
an intentional walk for Ichiro, D.J hit a single to center
from pitcher Yamabe. When the ball was sent to third,
third baseman Meulens juggled it so D.J tried to get second
but he was gotten.
[Bottom of 8th]
The Swallows had chance of runners on first and second with
1 out. Dobashi hit a grounder to third line but 3B Baba
made catch and got force out at third. The Blue Wave sent
Nomura for O'Malley though Nomura allowed O'Malley a RBI hit
on Game 2. His first pitch for O'Malley became a wild pitch,
which was also a blush back pitch, and after that he gave
O'Malley an intentional walk. The pitcher was changed to
Hirai. Furuta hit a grounder to the hole... Short stop
got it and threw to second... not in time and the Swallows
scored. It might be a bad call (it is true that the covering
by 2B Fukura was a little late but it can be called both out
and safe, I think :-). The Blue Wave manager, Ohgi, protested
against the 2B umpire very hard but of course the call wasn't
changed.
[Bottom of 9th]
Meulens hit a fastball down the middle to left stand on count 3-2
after he swung and missed two forkballs.
[Top of 10th]
The Blue Wave had chance of runners on first and second with 1 out.
Suguro hit a line drive to right line but RF was there in advance
and made easy catch. Hirai also hit almost the same line drive.
[Bottom of 10th]
After O'Malley's walk, Furuta finally got a clean hit which was
a double to left. Ikeyama swung a high fastball ... when he hit
it every one understood the win of the Swallows.
Score book
BlueWave 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Taguchi lf 8 9 SH/1-2 H/*2 K
Fukura 2b 63 53 H/2-3 *3 SH/*4 3A
Ichiro cf K H SF/3-H IW ff6
D.J 1b 9 8 4 *5 H/*6 63
Fujii rf K W
Motonishi ph,cf 63 *7 W 63
Nakajima c H W 53 8 W
Baba 3b 6 4 63 53 H/1-2
Ogawa ss W 43 D 9
Suguro ss 9
Hoshino p K
Shibahara ph W
Kobayashi p
Kiyokawa p
Suzuki p
Miwa ph *1
Neel ph H/2-3
Matsuyama pr
Itoh p W
Hirai p 9
Pitchers
Hoshino-Kobayashi-Kiyokawa-Suzuki-Itoh-Nomura-Hirai
*1:P Miyamoto,K. *2:3-H,1-2 *3:pr *4:2-3,1-2 *5:P Yamabe
*6:3-H,2-H,1-3,B-2 TO((82)54) *7:P Itoh,A.
Swallows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Iida cf 9 H/1-2 B13 H 46
Joh lf D 8 K
Hata ph H/1-2
Takatsu p 4
Dobashi 2b,lf 63/2-3 K K 5C/*5 63
O'Malley 1b H/*1 K W *6 *7 IW W
Noguchi pr*a
Furuta c 53 53 13 *8 H/*9 D/1-3
Ikeyama ss K 4L 9 K *a HR/3-H,2-H
Meulens 3b K H K HR
Hashigami rf 4
Arai,Y. ph *2 *3 SH/2-3
Manaka rf K H
Yoshii p H
Aoyagi ph *4
Inaba ph SF/3-H
Katoh p
Miyamoto,K. p
Yamabe p
Itoh,A. p
Kanamori ph,lf K 4
Miyamoto,S. 2b
Pitchers
Yoshii-Katoh-Miyamoto,K.-Yamabe-Itoh,A.-Takatsu
*1:3-H,B-2X84TO *2:P Kiyohara *3:SB/1-2 *4:P Suzuki *5:1-2,B-1
*6:P Nomura *7:WP/2-3,1-2 *8:P Hirai *9:3-H,2-3,1-2 *a:pr
[Japan Series Game 4]
Oct. 25 at Jingu (night game)
3-1, Swallows
Orix BlueWave | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 | 2
----------------+-------------------------------+--
Yakult Swallows | 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1
Win : Kobayashi ( 1W )
Lose: Itoh, A. ( 1L )
HR: B Ogawa 1, D.J 2
The Blue Wave got many hits but somehow they couldn't
hit any RBI hit. Anyway this game was exciting, too.
* The Blue Wave had chance of bases loaded with two outs
both in the first inning and in the second inning.
In paticular, the case of the second inning, Ichiro
appeared at the chance! (His result was a grounder
to second baseman)
[Bottom of 5th]
Ikeyama walked, Meulen struck out. After Kawasaki's
sacrifice bunt, Iida hit a line drive to second but
the ball hit the glove of 2b Fukura and Ikeyama scored.
This was the second hit for the Swallows.
[Top of 9th]
The lead-off batter of this inning Ogawa hit the 122nd pitch
of Kawasaki on ball count 1-0. The ball went to left stand
near the left foul pole! The next batter Neel, who was sent
as a pinch hitter, hit a base hit to center. After sacrifice
bunt and Fukura's base hit to left, Ichiro appeared. But
his result was just a line drive to short stop and the Blue
Wave couldn't take a lead.
[Bottom of 9th]
The lead-off batter of this inning Ohno, who was a pinch hitter,
got a single but the next batter Dobashi grouned out with the
first runner (double play) after he missed sacrifice bunt twice.
When O'Malley walked, the Blue Wave changed the pitcher to Noda.
Noda allowed Furuta a base hit but got strike out from Miyamoto.
[Top of 10th]
the Blue Wave had to sent a pinch hitter for Noda because they
had chance of runners on first and second with two outs. But
pinch hitter Takada hit just a fly to center.
[Bottom of 11th]
After one outs, pinch hitter Arai walked and Dobashi hit a single.
The most exciting scene of this game had appeaered: the next batter
was O'Malley. Blue Wave pitcher Kobayashi pitched very well and
O'Malley hit two homerun-like fouls. At last O'Malley swang and
missed the 14th pitch on ball-count 3-2.
[Top of 12th]
D.J was the lead-off batter. He hit a breaking ball and it became
a line drive to right stand. Wind blew from outfield to backstop,
but there was no effect of the wind to the line drive.
[Bottom of 12th]
Meulens appeared on bases empty with two outs. He hit a high
fly to deep left... The left fielder ran back and looked up
the ball at the wall... the ball went down and LF got it with
his back at the wall. A little (?) strong wind might affect
the ball but anyway the Blue Wave won.
Score book
BlueWave 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Taguchi lf H 4 53 H SH/1-2 6
Fukura 2b SH/1-2 W K 6 H/2-3 64
Ichiro cf,rf 1T/2-3 43 5 H/1-3 *2 6L K
D.J 1b W 43 K 6 53 HR
Fujii rf W 8 D 8
Motonishi cf H 7
Miwa c 64 63 ff3
Nakajima ph,c K SH/1-2 43
Baba 3b H H W 63 W 9
Ogawa ss H/1-2 *1 ff3 9 HR *3 7
Hasegawa p B25 4
Shibahara ph K
Suzuki p
Neel ph H
Matsuyama pr
Nomura p
Noda p
Takada ph 8
Kobayashi p
Pitchers
Hasegawa-Suzuki-Nomura-Noda-Kobayashi
*1:CS/26 *2:P Yamabe *3:P Itoh,A.
Swallows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Iida cf K 9 H/2-H 63 63
Inaba rf K W CS/26 7
Ohno ph H
Joh pr,lf
Arai,Y. ph W
Hashigami pr,rf
Dobashi 2b,lf,rf,lf
8 53 9 *1 663/DP H/1-2
O'Malley 1b D 8 43 W K
Furuta c 5L 4 53 *2 H/1-2 8
Hata lf 7 7 K
Miyamoto,S. 2b K
Kanamori ph 9
Ikeyama ss W W K 8 63
Meulens 3b K K K 53 9
Kawasaki p 53 SH/1-2 13
Yamabe p
Itoh,A. p 53
Pitchers
Kawasaki-Yamabe-Itoh,A.
*1:cf Motonishi *2:P Noda
[Japan Series Game 5]
Congratulation, Yakult Swallows!
The Swallows have won the Japan champion!
Oct. 26 at Jingu (night game)
4-1, Swallows
Orix BlueWave | 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1
----------------+-----------------------+--
Yakult Swallows | 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 X | 3
Win : Bross (2W)
Save: Takatsu (1W 2S)
Lose: Takahashi,K. (1L)
HR: B Ichiro 1
S O'Malley 2
MVP: Thomas O'Malley
Excellent players:
YS Bross, Ikeyama, Takatsu (Yushu senshu shou)
BW Kobayashi (Kantou shou)
Players seemed to be tired after two hard extra-innings games.
The Blue Wave had to set Takahashi to the starting pitcher
and they had removed Hirai from the roster since yesterday.
OTOH, the Swallows had a excellent starter Bross and they didn't
make Takatsu pitch in yesterday's game so the point of this game
was whether the Blue Wave could beat Bross or not.
The Blue Wave went ahead with the homerun of Ichiro at the top of
the 1st inning. But in the bottom of the 2nd, Blue Wave fielders
made an error and a bad fielding to be turned the game. The Blue
Wave had many chances, but they had hard luck.
This is the third time that the Swallows have become the Japan
champion and the last time was 1993.
[Top of 1st]
Ichiro finally swung and hit a high fastball and it had gone
to right stand (but it would not be a homerun at Kobe :-)
[Bottom of 2nd]
O'Malley hit a single to left field on ball count 3-2.
The next batter Furuta hit a easy grounder to first
but D.J couldn't catch it (An error was credited to him).
If he could have catch it, the Blue Wave would turn a double play.
Hata bunted between third baseman and pitcher... the bunt was
excellent as a sacrifice bunt but somehow it became a bunt hit
(I think that the pitcher should move more quickly or the third
baseman should field it because the Blue Wave went ahead at
this time!). After that, Swallow batters got two sacrifice
flies and they turned the game.
[Top of 4th]
After two outs, the Blue Wave got a base hit and two walks.
It was unlucky for the Blue Wave because they had to send
a pinch hitter to pitcher Hoshino who faced only one batter
The pinch hitter counldn't get a hit.
[Bottom of 5th]
O'Malley hit a homerun to right on bases empty with two outs.
The ball he hit was a high fastball. I think that the Blue
Wave only feared his homerun but anyway I think that the picher
Itoh should not pitch such a ball in such a situation because
his forkball is very good.
[Top of 7th]
After Miwa's base hit, pinch hitter Neel grounded out
to first with the runner. As you know, in Japanese baseball
almost all managers think making tie at first. I mean
that if they would have only one behind, then the manager
forced to bunt so they didn't send Neel and there were no
double play. Unfortunately after the double play, Taguchi
hit a double to left field :-)
[Top of 8th]
After Ichiro's hit, D.J hit a line drive to first and
O'Malley got it. The runner Ichiro couldn't return
but he was tagged out. Again after the double play
Fujii hit a single to center :-)
[Top of 9th]
Takatsu pitched very well. When the batter was Neel,
there was a happening: The 6th(? I'm not sure) pitch
went to inside-low corner and Neel swung... and tipped
but the catcher couldn't catch. But this play was
looked like struck out for outfiled fans so they threw
paper streams into the field. After a few minutes break
Neel hit a grounder to second and the winning ball was
caught by O'Malley. O'Malley said the he would keep it
as a memorial of this series :-)
Score book
BlueWave 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Taguchi lf,2b ff3 4 H D
Fukura 2b 43 W SH/1-2 31
Noda p
Ichiro cf HR 43 W H
D.J 1b,lf K 8 363/DP 3L/DP
Fujii rf W ff6 6 H
Ogawa ss K H 9 ff3
Baba 3b K W 63 K
Miwa c 4 W H K
Takahashi,K. p K
Hoshino p
Takada ph 43
Itoh p
Neel ph,1b 364/DP 43
Pitchers
Takahashi,K.-Hoshino-Itoh-Noda
*A:P Yamabe
*B:P Itoh,A.
Swallows 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Iida cf 63 D 43 62 53/*5
Inaba rf K SH/1-2 K 6L K
Takatsu p
Dobashi 2b,lf 8 3A 53 63
O'Malley 1b H IW HR 5
Furuta c 3e/1-2 HP 7 H
Hata lf BH/*1 *3 K W
Manaka pr,lf,rf K
Ikeyama ss SF/*2 7 13/1-2 H
Meulens 3b SF/3-H H W K
Bross p K SH/1-2 SH3e/*4
Kanamori ph W
Joh pr
Miyamoto,S. 2b
Pitchers
Bross-Takatsu
*1:2-3,1-2 *2:3-H,2-3 *3:P Hoshino *4:2-3,1-2 *5:2-3,1-2