1961 Hankyu Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 53-84
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Katsuki Tokura (53-84)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium

1961 Hankyu Braves Roster

The Hankyu Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1961 season with a record of 53 wins and 84 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Braves scored 421 runs and surrendered 574 runs. Masahiro Nakata led Hankyu with 29 home runs and accounted for 74 RBI. Motohiro Moroki paced batters with significant playing time with a .264 average. Takao Kajimoto topped the team with 17 wins, while Tetsuya Yoneda added 15 or more wins also Takao Kajimoto registered a 2.81 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances. Katsuki Tokura 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
Takao Kajimoto	17	23	.425	2.80	54	31	21	17	3		269.7	261	108	84	25	56	6	141	2	0	1	1105
Tetsuya Yoneda	16	22	.421	3.56	56	35	19	12	1		275.7	282	127	109	27	70	7	188	8	0	1	1151
Haruhisa Ando	6	7	.462	2.82	47	21	13	2	1		153.3	154	60	48	7	41	5	97	3	0	1	639
Yusaku Akimoto	6	10	.375	3.80	44	18	14	3	0		161.0	163	75	68	9	37	4	81	2	0	0	669
Kimihiro Sato	4	7	.364	3.59	47	12	9	1	1		135.3	115	57	54	14	40	2	94	7	1	2	549
Yasuo Kajimoto	1	1	.500	2.95	15	2	4	0	0		42.7	34	17	14	3	11	1	29	0	0	0	169
Shigeo Ishii	1	1	.500	5.40	11	1	4	0	0		26.7	31	20	16	5	7	0	9	0	0	1	119
Mitsuhiro Adachi	1	4	.200	4.06	27	6	8	0	0		62.0	71	33	28	7	11	0	37	2	0	0	267
Hiroshi Makino	1	5	.167	6.88	11	7	3	0	0		34.0	49	30	26	5	12	1	16	1	0	0	163
Minoru Nishida	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0		2.0	3	3	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	10
Hiroshi Taneda	0	1	.000	3.86	9	2	4	0	0		14.0	18	8	6	1	4	0	6	0	0	0	62
Eiji Ando	0	1	.000	14.29	4	1	0	0	0		5.7	12	9	9	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	31
Masahiko Makita	0	2	.000	4.03	25	4	6	0	0		51.3	47	27	23	5	32	1	34	4	0	4	232
Totals	53	84	.387	3.56	351	140	105	35	6	0	1233.3	1240	574	488	110	325	27	736	30	1	10	5166

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
Masahiro Nakata	138	569	513	62	122	25	4	29	74	2	5	53	121	.238	.309	.472	.781	242	8	1	0	2	2
Motohiro Moroki	127	488	451	41	119	21	3	4	47	11	8	32	60	.264	.313	.350	.663	158	3	1	2	2	0
Roberto Barbon	120	419	391	41	84	12	2	0	12	20	7	20	69	.215	.254	.256	.510	100	3	1	6	1	0
Takatsugu Toguchi	97	290	263	25	82	15	2	2	34	1	0	20	26	.312	.364	.407	.770	107	6	2	4	1	4
Hiroharu Okajima	110	380	329	32	78	15	0	6	33	21	17	37	60	.237	.323	.337	.660	111	4	6	5	3	0
Akira Ishii	95	318	297	22	76	14	3	3	25	2	5	15	43	.256	.301	.354	.654	105	11	4	2	0	0
Takeo Hitomi	105	357	312	35	71	12	3	5	29	7	4	37	33	.228	.310	.333	.643	104	5	2	2	4	1
Kingo Motoyashiki	79	263	241	22	65	15	5	0	12	9	4	18	34	.270	.320	.373	.694	90	4	0	4	0	1
Mamoru Tanaka	98	234	219	14	46	5	2	4	17	2	1	12	41	.210	.253	.306	.559	67	9	1	1	1	2
Mamoru Hirono	69	175	165	13	40	6	1	2	14	5	0	9	35	.242	.282	.327	.609	54	2	0	1	0	1
Kenichiro Okamoto	78	173	156	15	34	13	1	0	4	1	0	17	30	.218	.295	.314	.609	49	2	0	0	0	1
Koji Okamura	90	203	187	14	34	3	3	0	10	1	0	11	55	.182	.231	.230	.461	43	4	1	4	0	0
Yoshio Kureyama	91	179	159	18	29	5	2	2	14	5	3	16	51	.182	.264	.277	.541	44	1	2	1	1	0
Masaharu Takita	80	182	162	8	26	10	0	2	20	3	4	17	31	.160	.253	.259	.512	42	6	3	0	0	1
Takao Kajimoto	57	105	99	7	23	4	0	0	9	0	0	4	16	.232	.260	.273	.532	27	2	0	1	1	1
Hiroyoshi Kigoro	70	82	75	7	20	4	1	0	8	1	4	6	16	.267	.321	.347	.668	26	1	0	1	0	0
Takeshi Yamashita	86	165	135	14	19	0	0	3	11	0	0	22	48	.141	.269	.207	.476	28	5	2	5	1	0
Tetsuya Yoneda	56	92	84	10	18	3	0	1	8	0	0	7	32	.214	.275	.286	.560	24	3	0	1	0	0
Hatsuo Ota	32	44	41	3	7	0	0	1	2	1	2	3	20	.171	.227	.244	.471	10	0	0	0	0	0
Susumu Nagai	16	29	27	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.222	.250	.259	.509	7	3	0	1	0	0
Haruhisa Ando	47	35	29	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.207	.207	.241	.448	7	0	0	6	0	0
Tsutomu Takahashi	26	47	42	3	6	2	0	1	2	1	1	3	12	.143	.217	.262	.479	11	1	1	1	0	0
Yutaka Okada	26	33	26	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	5	.154	.267	.192	.459	5	1	0	3	0	0
Ryuzo Kaoku	19	23	21	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	9	.143	.217	.143	.360	3	2	0	0	0	0
Yusaku Akimoto	44	40	38	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.079	.079	.105	.184	4	2	0	2	0	0
Hiroshi Makino	13	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	1	0	0
Mitsuhiro Adachi	28	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyoshi Yano	21	21	20	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.100	.143	.100	.243	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kimihiro Sato	49	25	25	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.080	.080	.080	.160	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hisashi Kimura	28	32	27	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	13	.074	.194	.111	.305	3	0	1	1	0	0
Shigeo Ishii	11	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kazumi Matsunami	10	15	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.077	.200	.077	.277	1	3	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Taneda	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Ando	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Kajimoto	15	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Makita	25	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hidekazu Sakano	11	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Otsuka	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2082	5063	4588	421	1033	190	32	65	388	93	65	374	926	.225	.287	.323	.610	1482	91	28	56	17	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takatsugu Toguchi	1B	65					.000
Kenichiro Okamoto	1B	56					.000
Masaharu Takita	1B	30					.000
Takeo Hitomi	1B	26					.000
Hatsuo Ota	1B	16					.000
Kimihiro Sato	1B	1					.000
Masahiro Nakata	1B	1					.000
Kazumi Matsunami	1B	1					.000
Mitsuhiro Adachi	1B	1					.000
Roberto Barbon	2B	116					.000
Takeo Hitomi	2B	21					.000
Susumu Nagai	2B	12					.000
Kingo Motoyashiki	2B	12					.000
Takatsugu Toguchi	2B	9					.000
Hiroyoshi Kigoro	2B	7					.000
Hiroharu Okajima	2B	4					.000
Akira Ishii	3B	86					.000
Takeo Hitomi	3B	41					.000
Hiroharu Okajima	3B	40					.000
Koji Okamura	C	88					.000
Takeshi Yamashita	C	86					.000
Hisashi Kimura	C	27					.000
Yutaka Okada	C	25					.000
Kazumi Matsunami	C	9					.000
Masahiro Nakata	OF	138					.000
Motohiro Moroki	OF	125					.000
Mamoru Tanaka	OF	77					.000
Yoshio Kureyama	OF	52					.000
Mamoru Hirono	OF	48					.000
Masaharu Takita	OF	23					.000
Tsutomu Takahashi	OF	13					.000
Kenichiro Okamoto	OF	10					.000
Ryuzo Kaoku	OF	5					.000
Kiyoshi Yano	OF	4					.000
Hiroshi Makino	OF	2					.000
Hiroshi Taneda	OF	1					.000
Kimihiro Sato	OF	1					.000
Tetsuya Yoneda	P	56					.000
Takao Kajimoto	P	54					.000
Kimihiro Sato	P	47					.000
Haruhisa Ando	P	47					.000
Yusaku Akimoto	P	44					.000
Mitsuhiro Adachi	P	27					.000
Masahiko Makita	P	25					.000
Yasuo Kajimoto	P	15					.000
Hiroshi Makino	P	11					.000
Shigeo Ishii	P	11					.000
Hiroshi Taneda	P	9					.000
Eiji Ando	P	4					.000
Minoru Nishida	P	1					.000
Hiroharu Okajima	SS	67					.000
Kingo Motoyashiki	SS	58					.000
Hiroyoshi Kigoro	SS	17					.000
Takeo Hitomi	SS	12					.000
Hidekazu Sakano	SS	6					.000
Roberto Barbon	SS	4					.000
Totals		1794	0	0	0	0	.000

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