1968 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 50-80
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Itsuro Honda (0-0), Shigeru Sugishita (0-0)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1968 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1968 season with a record of 50 wins and 80 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Dragons tallied 499 runs and gave up 579 runs, most in the league. Shinichi Eto walloped 36 home runs for Chunichi, and Tatsuhiko Kimata added 15 or more also. Shinichi Eto drove in 93 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .302. Tsutomu Tanaka led the squad with 11 wins, while Tatsumi Yamanaka registered a 2.89 earned run average, leading qualifying pitchers. Itsuro Honda and Shigeru Sugishita served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Tsutomu Tanaka	11	12	.478	3.40	35	28	5	8	2		177.3	162	83	67	24	73	2	129	3	0	2	758
Kentaro Ogawa	10	20	.333	3.27	40	23	9	9	0		217.3	202	99	79	28	64	12	143	8	0	0	910
Tatsumi Yamanaka	8	8	.500	2.89	41	22	13	6	1		174.7	153	67	56	26	49	5	105	4	0	0	717
Shoichi Ono	6	11	.353	3.55	48	23	7	6	1		195.0	168	82	77	19	83	9	145	4	0	0	822
Hisanobu Mizutani	4	9	.308	3.80	35	17	8	1	1		111.3	110	52	47	14	21	2	70	4	0	0	460
Fujio Kitakado	3	1	.750	3.52	44	1	19	0	0		79.3	60	31	31	15	23	4	60	4	0	0	317
Nobuyuki Kadooka	3	6	.333	4.23	24	10	6	1	0		78.7	76	39	37	16	15	2	51	2	0	0	320
Hisatoshi Ito	1	0	1.000	4.81	22	2	3	0	0		33.7	39	18	18	7	12	2	21	0	0	1	147
Hiroshi Gondo	1	1	.500	10.80	9	1	3	0	0		18.3	32	23	22	5	11	0	10	2	0	0	95
Kazuya Wako	1	2	.333	4.18	14	4	7	0	0		32.3	24	15	15	2	10	1	15	2	1	0	127
Eiji Bando	1	4	.200	6.65	18	0	11	0	0		21.7	29	23	16	3	11	0	12	0	0	2	108
Shinobu Matsumoto	1	5	.167	3.31	28	3	6	1	0		51.7	38	27	19	5	19	0	33	1	1	0	213
Kimihiro Sato	0	0		7.04	4	0	1	0	0		7.7	9	6	6	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	33
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	0	0		12.00	1	0	0	0	0		3.0	7	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	15
Yukihiro Kubo	0	1	.000	5.40	8	0	4	0	0		15.0	19	10	9	3	3	2	5	0	0	0	66
Totals	50	80	.385	3.72	371	134	102	32	5	0	1217.0	1128	579	503	169	397	41	805	34	2	5	5108

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Shinichi Eto	131	535	487	80	147	29	1	36	93	7	3	40	59	.302	.361	.587	.948	286	12	6	0	2	5
Takao Katsuragi	123	460	440	39	128	17	0	9	44	4	5	12	28	.291	.314	.391	.705	172	14	4	2	2	1
Yozaburo Chihara	123	500	462	53	124	20	1	14	60	2	5	26	75	.268	.307	.407	.714	188	8	3	2	7	0
Shuhei Ichieda	115	490	434	51	118	24	3	13	47	4	6	33	74	.272	.326	.431	.757	187	10	3	18	2	0
Tatsuhiko Kimata	118	417	377	43	109	15	1	21	59	2	5	30	72	.289	.351	.501	.852	189	11	6	4	0	4
Tatsuhiko Ito	131	432	397	36	90	18	1	10	33	3	3	24	61	.227	.274	.353	.627	140	7	3	5	3	0
Toshio Naka	61	246	232	42	76	10	3	5	17	14	6	13	18	.328	.363	.461	.824	107	2	0	1	0	1
Morimichi Takagi	83	356	318	50	76	15	3	10	33	11	2	29	45	.239	.303	.399	.702	127	6	2	3	4	0
Sadayuki Tokutake	113	367	319	28	76	9	0	11	31	1	3	41	54	.238	.324	.370	.694	118	8	0	6	1	1
Motoaki Horigome	75	145	129	18	32	3	2	0	7	3	0	9	21	.248	.317	.302	.619	39	1	4	3	0	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	66	133	122	5	25	4	0	1	9	1	2	9	22	.205	.258	.262	.520	32	5	0	1	1	2
Takumi Ejima	71	166	157	13	24	6	0	5	9	0	3	3	42	.153	.189	.287	.476	45	2	4	2	0	0
Akira Hishikawa	58	101	89	7	15	2	0	1	6	1	1	7	25	.169	.227	.225	.452	20	4	0	4	1	0
Koji Sasaki	38	55	54	3	13	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	.241	.255	.315	.569	17	0	1	0	0	0
Kentaro Ogawa	40	74	71	2	12	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	32	.169	.167	.225	.392	16	1	0	2	1	0
Tsutomu Tanaka	35	61	58	3	9	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	17	.155	.183	.207	.390	12	1	0	1	0	0
Shoichi Ono	48	64	62	4	9	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	28	.145	.145	.242	.387	15	0	0	2	0	0
Shigeru Hino	43	64	59	2	8	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	15	.136	.164	.136	.300	8	1	0	3	0	0
Hiroaki Kon	36	35	31	2	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	10	.226	.294	.226	.520	7	0	0	1	0	0
Susumu Aikawa	32	49	45	4	7	2	1	2	8	0	0	3	18	.156	.204	.378	.582	17	0	0	0	1	0
Tatsumi Yamanaka	41	52	49	2	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	13	.143	.192	.163	.356	8	3	0	0	0	0
Jun Takenaka	30	44	42	3	5	1	0	1	5	0	0	0	9	.119	.119	.214	.333	9	2	0	2	0	0
Nobuyuki Kadooka	24	24	24	2	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	11	.167	.167	.167	.333	4	0	0	0	0	0
Fujio Kitakado	44	12	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	1	0	0
Ikuo Shimano	22	20	20	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	.100	.100	.150	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hisanobu Mizutani	35	28	27	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.074	.074	.111	.185	3	0	0	1	0	0
Hideaki Homoto	34	34	31	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	5	.065	.147	.065	.212	2	0	0	0	0	1
Takahiko Kanbara	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	7	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.400	.733	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hirokazu Ikuma	8	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tokio Takagi	10	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.091	.231	.091	.322	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroshi Takeuchi	24	15	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Gondo	12	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Hisatoshi Ito	22	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yukihiro Kubo	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinobu Matsumoto	28	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Bando	18	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuya Wako	14	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kimihiro Sato	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Narihide Sugi	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1931	5034	4610	499	1134	187	16	142	474	57	48	295	796	.246	.295	.386	.681	1779	99	36	68	25	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yozaburo Chihara	1B	122					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	1B	8					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	1B	6					.000
Shinichi Eto	1B	5					.000
Susumu Aikawa	1B	5					.000
Takao Katsuragi	1B	3					.000
Sadayuki Tokutake	1B	2					.000
Eiji Takaoka	1B	1					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	82					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	2B	48					.000
Shigeru Hino	2B	8					.000
Susumu Aikawa	2B	8					.000
Shuhei Ichieda	2B	5					.000
Jun Takenaka	2B	3					.000
Hiroshi Takeuchi	2B	1					.000
Narihide Sugi	2B	1					.000
Sadayuki Tokutake	3B	101					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	3B	58					.000
Hiroshi Takeuchi	3B	11					.000
Susumu Aikawa	3B	6					.000
Shigeru Hino	3B	2					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	110					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	58					.000
Kazuya Wako	C	14					.000
Tokio Takagi	C	10					.000
Takahiko Kanbara	C	1					.000
Shinichi Eto	OF	125					.000
Takao Katsuragi	OF	112					.000
Toshio Naka	OF	57					.000
Takumi Ejima	OF	55					.000
Akira Hishikawa	OF	51					.000
Motoaki Horigome	OF	43					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	OF	27					.000
Nobuyuki Kadooka	OF	24					.000
Koji Sasaki	OF	20					.000
Ikuo Shimano	OF	16					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	OF	7					.000
Hirokazu Ikuma	OF	6					.000
Hiroaki Kon	OF	2					.000
Kazumi Takagi	OF	1					.000
Hideaki Homoto	OF	1					.000
Yozaburo Chihara	OF	1					.000
Shoichi Ono	P	48					.000
Fujio Kitakado	P	44					.000
Tatsumi Yamanaka	P	41					.000
Kentaro Ogawa	P	40					.000
Tsutomu Tanaka	P	35					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	P	35					.000
Shinobu Matsumoto	P	28					.000
Nobuyuki Kadooka	P	24					.000
Hisatoshi Ito	P	22					.000
Eiji Bando	P	18					.000
Kazuya Wako	P	14					.000
Hiroshi Gondo	P	9					.000
Yukihiro Kubo	P	8					.000
Kimihiro Sato	P	4					.000
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	P	1					.000
Shuhei Ichieda	SS	112					.000
Jun Takenaka	SS	23					.000
Shigeru Hino	SS	23					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	5					.000
Hiroshi Takeuchi	SS	2					.000
Tatsuhiko Ito	SS	2					.000
Totals		1765	0	0	0	0	.000

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