1973 Hankyu Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 77-48
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Yukio Nishimoto (77-48)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium

1973 Hankyu Braves Roster

The Hankyu Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1973 season with a record of 77 wins and 48 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Braves scored 645 runs, most in the league. Hankyu gave up 499 runs. Atsushi Nagaike walloped 43 home runs for the squad, while Hideji Kato and Yutaka Ohashi swatted 15 or more as well. Atsushi Nagaike accounted for 109 RBI. Hideji Kato led hitters with significant playing time with a .337 average. Tetsuya Yoneda and Hisashi Yamada topped the team with 15 wins each, and Tetsuya Yoneda registered a 2.47 earned run average, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Billy Sorrell played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Hankyu Braves to do so.

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
Tetsuya Yoneda	15	3	.833	2.46	32	23	5	11	3		175.3	149	62	48	14	52	3	103	9	4	5	727
Hisashi Yamada	15	10	.600	3.56	36	26	10	12	1		207.3	194	89	82	32	47	2	99	3	1	1	845
Takashi Mizutani	12	4	.750	2.67	30	18	9	9	2		138.0	129	44	41	13	34	3	66	4	2	2	568
Kazuyoshi Takemura	8	3	.727	2.92	24	14	4	3	1		120.3	117	49	39	11	44	5	54	9	2	1	510
Yoshinori Toda	8	9	.471	3.05	39	18	7	1	0		138.7	131	55	47	19	45	2	71	1	2	2	572
Yukinobu Miyamoto	4	4	.500	3.54	17	11	0	1	1		61.0	51	28	24	5	38	0	37	3	0	1	270
Yoshihiro Kodama	4	4	.500	3.66	30	0	9	0	0		51.7	58	28	21	5	11	0	18	2	0	1	217
Mitsuhiro Adachi	4	6	.400	4.63	27	15	9	3	0		103.0	117	60	53	20	23	5	41	6	7	0	443
Takao Kajimoto	3	0	1.000	6.41	17	1	10	0	0		19.7	25	16	14	2	5	2	12	1	0	3	90
Yoshio Arai	2	2	.500	2.90	51	4	16	1	0		111.7	100	38	36	9	22	0	55	2	0	3	451
Yutaro Imai	1	0	1.000	6.00	6	0	3	0	0		6.0	10	5	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	30
Yukio Miyoshi	1	3	.250	4.69	17	0	7	0	0		40.3	39	24	21	7	18	3	14	2	0	1	173
Kenjiro Maki	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0		1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Totals	77	48	.616	3.30	327	130	89	41	8	0	1174.0	1122	499	431	137	342	25	572	42	18	20	4902

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
Yutaka Fukumoto	123	566	497	100	152	29	10	13	54	95	16	65	56	.306	.387	.483	.870	240	3	2	0	2	3
Atsushi Nagaike	128	559	479	89	150	16	2	43	109	5	5	73	46	.313	.403	.624	1.027	299	13	2	0	5	12
Hideji Kato	118	494	436	69	147	27	6	20	91	16	5	41	51	.337	.395	.564	.959	246	6	7	0	10	3
Taira Sumitomo	127	557	453	82	119	14	3	10	62	21	12	72	48	.263	.379	.373	.752	169	10	15	13	4	0
Kiyoshi Morimoto	94	376	321	35	89	13	1	11	48	8	2	49	44	.277	.375	.427	.802	137	11	3	0	3	0
Tadayoshi Okuma	107	327	290	31	80	13	0	3	30	7	3	23	29	.276	.333	.352	.685	102	9	4	6	4	0
Masayuki Tanemo	102	305	275	21	76	10	0	3	27	1	2	22	11	.276	.336	.345	.681	95	15	3	4	1	3
Yutaka Ohashi	117	393	350	45	75	17	1	17	47	6	3	30	78	.214	.281	.414	.696	145	11	3	9	1	1
Hidetaka Togin	107	196	163	24	48	6	0	4	23	10	4	29	17	.294	.410	.405	.815	66	2	3	1	0	0
Yukiyoshi Okada	83	203	177	21	43	7	0	6	23	0	1	21	28	.243	.317	.384	.701	68	5	0	1	4	2
Hironori Shogaki	91	139	118	21	36	6	1	3	21	2	3	13	8	.305	.396	.449	.845	53	2	6	0	2	0
Yasuhiro Takai	90	152	128	19	36	4	0	8	22	1	0	18	14	.281	.367	.500	.867	64	5	0	5	1	0
Billy Sorrell	64	132	115	9	27	2	0	4	12	4	0	14	11	.235	.318	.357	.675	41	3	1	0	2	0
Osamu Inoue	98	140	117	25	24	4	1	2	9	16	2	18	24	.205	.311	.308	.619	36	0	0	5	0	1
Hisashi Yamada	36	73	65	6	15	1	0	0	5	1	0	1	14	.231	.242	.246	.489	16	2	0	7	0	0
Jiro Hirabayashi	85	79	71	15	15	1	2	0	6	6	5	2	12	.211	.240	.282	.522	20	0	1	4	1	0
Takashi Mizutani	30	48	43	6	10	0	0	1	3	0	0	3	7	.233	.283	.302	.585	13	0	0	2	0	0
Fujio Yamaguchi	25	49	43	5	8	1	0	0	6	0	0	5	7	.186	.271	.209	.480	9	2	0	1	0	0
Shinji Nakazawa	20	23	20	2	6	0	0	1	3	1	0	3	5	.300	.391	.450	.841	9	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuya Yoneda	32	65	50	5	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	11	16	.120	.279	.180	.459	9	0	0	4	0	0
Kazuyoshi Takemura	24	41	35	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	.143	.143	.143	.286	5	0	0	6	0	0
Kenji Komatsu	41	20	20	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.200	.200	.250	.450	5	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshio Arai	52	19	17	2	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	5	.176	.222	.176	.399	3	2	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Toda	39	38	33	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	13	.091	.189	.091	.280	3	2	0	1	0	0
Tsutomu Watanabe	36	12	12	6	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	.167	.167	.417	.583	5	1	0	0	0	0
Mitsuhiro Adachi	27	30	23	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	.087	.222	.087	.309	2	0	0	3	0	0
Takeshi Kiritoshi	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshihiro Kodama	31	8	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	3	0	0
Yukio Miyoshi	17	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	2	0	0
Takao Kajimoto	18	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teruyuki Uno	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yukinobu Miyamoto	17	16	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.062	.000	.062	0	1	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Hosokawa	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenichiro Kawamura	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1.000			0	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	1989	5075	4382	645	1184	172	27	151	610	202	63	524	585	.270	.352	.425	.777	1863	105	51	78	40	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hideji Kato	1B	116					.000
Yasuhiro Takai	1B	36					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	1B	6					.000
Teruyuki Uno	1B	3					.000
Billy Sorrell	1B	2					.000
Kenji Komatsu	1B	2					.000
Kenichiro Kawamura	1B	1					.000
Takao Kajimoto	1B	1					.000
Yoshio Arai	1B	1					.000
Taira Sumitomo	2B	126					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	2B	35					.000
Osamu Inoue	2B	11					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	2B	10					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	2B	1					.000
Billy Sorrell	2B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	3B	93					.000
Osamu Inoue	3B	63					.000
Billy Sorrell	3B	16					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	3B	12					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	3B	6					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	3B	6					.000
Masayuki Tanemo	C	99					.000
Yukiyoshi Okada	C	74					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	C	12					.000
Teruyuki Uno	C	1					.000
Atsushi Nagaike	OF	128					.000
Yutaka Fukumoto	OF	121					.000
Tadayoshi Okuma	OF	98					.000
Hidetaka Togin	OF	79					.000
Hironori Shogaki	OF	45					.000
Kenji Komatsu	OF	28					.000
Billy Sorrell	OF	15					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	OF	1					.000
Teruyuki Uno	OF	1					.000
Yoshihiro Kodama	OF	1					.000
Yutaro Imai	OF	1					.000
Yoshio Arai	P	51					.000
Yoshinori Toda	P	39					.000
Hisashi Yamada	P	36					.000
Tetsuya Yoneda	P	32					.000
Takashi Mizutani	P	30					.000
Yoshihiro Kodama	P	30					.000
Mitsuhiro Adachi	P	27					.000
Kazuyoshi Takemura	P	24					.000
Yukio Miyoshi	P	17					.000
Yukinobu Miyamoto	P	17					.000
Takao Kajimoto	P	17					.000
Yutaro Imai	P	6					.000
Kenjiro Maki	P	1					.000
Yutaka Ohashi	SS	116					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	SS	29					.000
Osamu Inoue	SS	13					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	SS	6					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	SS	5					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	SS	1					.000
Totals		1749	0	0	0	0	.000

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