1971 Hankyu Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 80-39
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Yukio Nishimoto (80-39)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium

1971 Hankyu Braves Roster

The Hankyu Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1971 season with a record of 80 wins and 39 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Braves topped the circuit with 669 runs, sparked by 166 home runs. Hankyu surrendered 463 runs, least in the league. Atsushi Nagaike walloped 40 home runs for the team, while Toshizo Sakamoto, Hideji Kato, Kiyoshi Morimoto and Tadayoshi Okuma each swatted 15 or more also. Atsushi Nagaike accounted for 114 RBI. Hideji Kato led batters with significant playing time with a .321 average. Hisashi Yamada paced the squad with 22 wins, and Mitsuhiro Adachi added 15 or more victories also Hisashi Yamada registered a 2.37 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Daryl Spencer and Jerry Adair both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Yukio Nishimoto 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
Hisashi Yamada	22	6	.786	2.37	46	31	12	16	6		270.0	195	80	71	37	64	6	189	6	0	0	1064
Mitsuhiro Adachi	19	8	.704	2.49	43	32	8	18	4		252.7	200	80	70	21	55	9	116	11	0	0	996
Tetsuya Yoneda	14	4	.778	3.73	31	28	2	12	2		181.0	165	82	75	19	62	5	79	8	1	2	762
Shigeo Ishii	7	7	.500	3.28	26	11	7	4	1		90.7	91	41	33	8	28	4	43	6	0	0	388
Yoshihiro Kodama	6	3	.667	4.53	40	2	17	0	0		91.3	90	51	46	13	32	5	44	4	0	0	387
Takao Kajimoto	6	8	.429	3.44	33	15	5	4	1		136.0	134	57	52	12	43	4	74	1	1	0	576
Yukinobu Miyamoto	4	3	.571	4.18	34	10	12	2	0		103.3	102	54	48	15	38	4	58	2	1	1	442
Katsutoshi Miwata	1	0	1.000	1.93	2	0	2	0	0		4.7	6	1	1	1	0	0	5	1	1	0	20
Yoshinori Toda	1	0	1.000	3.38	12	0	2	0	0		16.0	15	6	6	3	6	0	12	1	0	1	68
Tsutomu Hashimoto	0	0		1.80	4	0	2	0	0		5.0	4	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	0	1	19
Takashi Mizutani	0	0		2.45	4	0	2	0	0		7.3	8	2	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	29
Toshiharu Nagare	0	0		3.00	5	1	3	0	0		9.0	6	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	35
Yutaro Imai	0	0		67.50	1	0	0	0	0		0.7	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	8
Totals	80	39	.672	3.18	281	130	74	56	14	0	1167.7	1021	463	413	130	334	37	630	40	4	5	4794

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
Atsushi Nagaike	130	558	476	87	151	19	2	40	114	8	9	69	37	.317	.404	.618	1.022	294	19	5	1	7	9
Hideji Kato	122	496	445	80	143	35	2	25	92	18	4	39	74	.321	.383	.578	.960	257	2	7	2	3	0
Toshizo Sakamoto	127	550	479	72	135	16	1	15	56	36	6	41	24	.282	.338	.413	.751	198	6	2	23	5	2
Kiyoshi Morimoto	130	522	457	65	130	25	0	16	58	9	4	53	37	.284	.362	.444	.806	203	11	5	2	5	0
Yutaka Fukumoto	117	481	426	82	118	18	5	10	45	67	14	50	49	.277	.351	.413	.764	176	2	1	0	4	4
Tadayoshi Okuma	121	406	342	56	105	12	2	15	57	8	3	45	30	.307	.392	.485	.878	166	9	7	6	6	4
Koji Okamura	125	452	401	33	89	13	0	7	50	4	5	37	44	.222	.301	.307	.608	123	19	9	4	1	5
Jerry Adair	90	249	240	26	72	8	1	7	36	0	0	4	11	.300	.316	.429	.745	103	13	2	2	1	0
Hironori Shogaki	79	148	119	29	38	6	0	5	16	1	2	20	15	.319	.438	.496	.934	59	4	6	2	1	1
Fujio Yamaguchi	116	177	163	22	31	5	0	4	13	4	1	6	15	.190	.225	.294	.520	48	4	2	4	2	0
Akira Ishii	92	134	115	10	28	1	0	3	14	2	1	16	16	.243	.341	.330	.671	38	1	1	2	0	1
Daryl Spencer	54	128	108	13	27	5	0	6	21	0	0	14	22	.250	.352	.463	.815	50	3	4	0	2	3
Taira Sumitomo	74	143	117	20	27	3	2	3	15	6	2	15	15	.231	.345	.368	.713	43	1	6	4	1	2
Hisashi Yamada	46	104	95	11	23	4	0	0	13	3	1	3	27	.242	.265	.284	.550	27	1	0	6	0	0
Tetsuya Yoneda	31	75	67	11	16	4	0	4	5	0	0	5	19	.239	.292	.478	.769	32	1	0	3	0	0
Mitsuhiro Adachi	43	93	82	8	15	1	0	0	2	4	0	4	21	.183	.218	.195	.414	16	1	0	6	1	0
Yukiyoshi Okada	42	43	36	8	9	0	0	2	7	0	0	6	10	.250	.372	.417	.789	15	1	1	0	0	1
Takao Kajimoto	34	45	37	5	9	1	0	1	3	0	0	6	12	.243	.349	.351	.700	13	1	0	2	0	0
Osamu Inoue	89	24	21	16	6	1	0	0	2	10	3	3	2	.286	.375	.333	.708	7	1	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Watanabe	43	22	18	3	5	0	0	1	4	1	2	4	1	.278	.409	.444	.854	8	0	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Hatta	35	28	27	1	4	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	3	.148	.143	.222	.365	6	1	0	0	1	0
Shigeo Ishii	26	28	27	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	7	.148	.179	.148	.327	4	0	0	0	0	0
Hidetaka Togin	37	5	5	5	3	0	0	1	3	3	3	0	0	.600	.600	1.200	1.800	6	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Kiritoshi	1	5	5	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	1.200	1.600	6	0	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Onishi	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiro Takai	5	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	1	0	0	0	0
Kenji Komatsu	25	18	16	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.062	.167	.062	.229	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshihiro Kodama	40	19	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.056	.056	.056	.111	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yukinobu Miyamoto	34	24	23	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	11	.043	.083	.087	.170	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Nakazawa	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsutoshi Miwata	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Noboru Miyake	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jiro Hirabayashi	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Mizutani	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sueichi Tanaka	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Toshiharu Nagare	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1940	4998	4384	669	1195	179	16	166	638	184	60	446	515	.273	.345	.434	.779	1904	103	58	70	40	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hideji Kato	1B	87					.000
Akira Ishii	1B	75					.000
Daryl Spencer	1B	28					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	1B	4					.000
Yasuhiro Takai	1B	2					.000
Koji Okamura	1B	1					.000
Tadashi Hatta	1B	1					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	2B	104					.000
Jerry Adair	2B	75					.000
Taira Sumitomo	2B	51					.000
Osamu Inoue	2B	4					.000
Daryl Spencer	2B	1					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	2B	1					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	2B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	3B	130					.000
Osamu Inoue	3B	72					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	3B	10					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	3B	3					.000
Sueichi Tanaka	3B	1					.000
Akira Ishii	3B	1					.000
Koji Okamura	C	123					.000
Yukiyoshi Okada	C	41					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	C	7					.000
Atsushi Nagaike	OF	130					.000
Yutaka Fukumoto	OF	115					.000
Tadayoshi Okuma	OF	113					.000
Hironori Shogaki	OF	56					.000
Hideji Kato	OF	38					.000
Hidetaka Togin	OF	27					.000
Kenji Komatsu	OF	19					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	OF	8					.000
Tadashi Hatta	OF	5					.000
Katsuo Saito	OF	3					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	OF	3					.000
Yoshinori Toda	OF	1					.000
Takeshi Kiritoshi	OF	1					.000
Takao Kajimoto	OF	1					.000
Tsutomu Hashimoto	OF	1					.000
Hisashi Yamada	P	46					.000
Mitsuhiro Adachi	P	43					.000
Yoshihiro Kodama	P	40					.000
Yukinobu Miyamoto	P	34					.000
Takao Kajimoto	P	33					.000
Tetsuya Yoneda	P	31					.000
Shigeo Ishii	P	26					.000
Yoshinori Toda	P	12					.000
Toshiharu Nagare	P	5					.000
Takashi Mizutani	P	4					.000
Tsutomu Hashimoto	P	4					.000
Katsutoshi Miwata	P	2					.000
Yutaro Imai	P	1					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	SS	126					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	SS	13					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	SS	8					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	SS	1					.000
Osamu Inoue	SS	1					.000
Totals		1774	0	0	0	0	.000

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