1976 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-58
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Takeshi Koba (61-58)
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Ballpark: Hiroshima Municipal Stadium

1976 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Roster

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Japan Central League ended the 1976 season with a record of 61 wins and 58 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Toyo Carp plated 586 runs and yielded 565 runs. Toshiyuki Mimura paced Hiroshima with 27 home runs, while Gail Hopkins, Koji Yamamoto, Richie Scheinblum, Sachio Kinugasa and Jitsuo Mizutani each walloped 15 or more, too. Jitsuo Mizutani accounted for 73 RBI. Gail Hopkins led all regular batters by connecting at a .329 clip. Kojiro Ikegaya topped the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 3.26 earned run average, tops among regular hurlers.

Gail Hopkins and Richie Scheinblum both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Takeshi Koba 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
Kojiro Ikegaya	20	15	.571	3.25	51	36	11	18	3	3	290.3	271	115	105	35	72	5	207	7	0	1	1202
Yoshiro Sotokoba	10	5	.667	3.93	25	23	0	6	2	0	144.3	136	71	63	19	52	1	86	2	0	3	607
Kazushi Saeki	10	13	.435	4.37	36	34	2	5	0	0	189.7	220	103	92	29	51	2	122	6	0	1	821
Satoshi Takahashi	8	7	.533	3.67	25	15	2	5	0	0	110.3	111	49	45	10	35	1	73	6	1	0	466
Yukinobu Miyamoto	4	3	.571	4.57	34	0	24	0	0	7	45.3	48	23	23	7	14	3	32	3	0	1	199
Satoru Miwa	3	0	1.000	2.93	33	0	2	0	0	0	61.3	68	25	20	8	12	0	22	3	0	0	251
Manabu Kitabeppu	2	1	.667	3.99	9	4	1	0	0	0	29.3	28	13	13	5	12	0	18	0	0	0	125
Hiroki Watanabe	2	3	.400	3.59	73	2	14	0	0	5	87.7	86	39	35	8	34	3	41	3	0	2	371
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	2	9	.182	4.84	43	10	16	1	0	4	102.3	101	59	55	21	44	5	97	11	1	1	456
Kazuto Kawabata	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	9
Seiji Kobayashi	0	0		7.56	5	1	1	0	0	0	8.3	15	8	7	1	3	0	5	0	0	1	40
Hiroaki Nagamoto	0	0		10.59	16	0	5	0	0	0	17.0	31	23	20	5	8	0	13	1	0	0	86
Ichiro Hiraoka	0	0		13.50	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	3	3	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	11
Tomoo Wako	0	1	.000	4.66	19	4	7	0	0	1	29.0	32	19	15	2	14	0	19	1	0	0	131
Kazunori Seto	0	1	.000	5.18	17	1	8	0	0	0	24.3	31	14	14	6	8	2	20	2	0	0	111
Totals	61	58	.513	4.02	389	130	95	35	5	20	1143.3	1183	565	511	157	363	22	756	45	2	10	4886

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
Sachio Kinugasa	130	569	522	82	156	26	2	26	69	31	14	31	84	.299	.349	.506	.855	264	19	10	5	1	2
Gail Hopkins	117	491	420	62	138	16	1	20	69	1	3	62	30	.329	.418	.514	.933	216	9	5	1	3	7
Koji Yamamoto	129	535	464	79	136	26	3	23	62	14	7	62	57	.293	.380	.511	.890	237	13	4	3	2	2
Toshiyuki Mimura	130	539	487	76	131	19	3	27	69	1	4	34	67	.269	.317	.487	.804	237	17	2	13	3	2
Richie Scheinblum	122	457	417	50	128	21	0	20	62	3	0	31	40	.307	.353	.501	.854	209	14	2	1	6	5
Jitsuo Mizutani	118	406	360	55	111	18	2	26	73	3	6	40	42	.308	.377	.586	.963	211	14	1	3	2	8
Shiro Mizunuma	124	368	328	36	82	16	1	11	46	6	3	28	39	.250	.309	.405	.714	133	8	2	5	5	4
Tsuyoshi Oshita	80	284	263	30	70	9	0	3	23	14	6	14	20	.266	.305	.335	.639	88	3	1	5	1	0
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	63	144	129	16	44	5	3	3	17	1	1	12	15	.341	.399	.496	.895	64	1	1	1	1	0
Yoshiyuki Sano	64	159	144	12	35	8	2	5	14	0	1	7	25	.243	.281	.431	.712	62	3	1	6	1	0
Toshihiko Sonoda	80	174	163	13	35	5	3	2	15	1	2	4	20	.215	.234	.319	.553	52	3	1	3	3	0
Shigeki Morioka	69	98	92	6	24	6	0	0	8	0	0	6	12	.261	.306	.326	.632	30	4	0	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Michihara	55	93	86	8	15	4	1	0	10	0	0	5	13	.174	.217	.244	.462	21	3	0	1	1	1
Kojiro Ikegaya	53	108	96	5	15	2	1	0	8	0	0	1	40	.156	.170	.198	.368	19	2	1	8	2	0
Toshimi Kubo	53	49	42	15	9	2	0	0	7	4	1	4	13	.214	.292	.262	.554	11	0	1	1	1	0
Shuichi Fukazawa	100	65	56	15	7	1	0	0	3	4	5	4	6	.125	.194	.143	.336	8	2	1	3	1	0
Kazushi Saeki	36	61	57	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	25	.088	.103	.088	.191	5	1	0	3	0	0
Toshifumi Takatsuki	6	11	11	1	4	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	4	.364	.364	.818	1.182	9	0	0	0	0	0
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	43	26	24	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	8	.167	.200	.333	.533	8	0	0	1	0	0
Tomio Kinoshita	89	40	32	11	4	1	0	0	2	1	0	4	9	.125	.263	.156	.419	5	1	2	2	0	0
Satoshi Takahashi	27	38	32	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	15	.094	.118	.156	.274	5	1	0	4	1	0
Yoshiro Sotokoba	26	54	46	3	3	0	0	1	4	0	0	1	17	.065	.083	.130	.214	6	2	0	6	1	0
Yukinobu Miyamoto	34	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Manabu Kitabeppu	10	8	7	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.286	.375	.429	.804	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiaki Oka	52	11	10	3	2	0	1	0	1	2	2	1	3	.200	.273	.400	.673	4	0	0	0	0	0
Takahiro Kenmotsu	8	4	3	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	1.000	1.500	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tomoo Wako	21	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroki Watanabe	73	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Shibata	14	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	1	1	0	0	0
Seiji Kobayashi	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Satoru Miwa	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1964	4824	4322	586	1169	191	24	169	572	86	55	356	621	.270	.329	.443	.772	1915	121	36	75	35	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Gail Hopkins	1B	117					.000
Toshimi Kubo	1B	33					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	1B	29					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	1B	7					.000
Toshifumi Takatsuki	1B	2					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	1B	1					.000
Sachio Kinugasa	1B	1					.000
Tsuyoshi Oshita	2B	76					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	2B	55					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	2B	39					.000
Toshihiko Sonoda	2B	38					.000
Toshimi Kubo	2B	7					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	2B	3					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	2B	3					.000
Sachio Kinugasa	3B	130					.000
Kazushi Saeki	3B	1					.000
Shiro Mizunuma	C	123					.000
Hiroyuki Michihara	C	54					.000
Takeshi Shibata	C	4					.000
Koji Yamamoto	OF	128					.000
Richie Scheinblum	OF	110					.000
Jitsuo Mizutani	OF	108					.000
Shuichi Fukazawa	OF	79					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	OF	43					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	OF	37					.000
Shigeki Morioka	OF	13					.000
Toshimi Kubo	OF	6					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	OF	4					.000
Takahiro Kenmotsu	OF	4					.000
Tomoo Wako	OF	2					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	2					.000
Toshihiko Sonoda	OF	2					.000
Kazunori Seto	OF	2					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	OF	2					.000
Kojiro Ikegaya	OF	2					.000
Yoshiro Sotokoba	OF	1					.000
Hiroaki Nagamoto	OF	1					.000
Manabu Kitabeppu	OF	1					.000
Hiroki Watanabe	P	73					.000
Kojiro Ikegaya	P	51					.000
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	P	43					.000
Kazushi Saeki	P	36					.000
Yukinobu Miyamoto	P	34					.000
Satoru Miwa	P	33					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	P	25					.000
Yoshiro Sotokoba	P	25					.000
Tomoo Wako	P	19					.000
Kazunori Seto	P	17					.000
Hiroaki Nagamoto	P	16					.000
Manabu Kitabeppu	P	9					.000
Seiji Kobayashi	P	5					.000
Ichiro Hiraoka	P	2					.000
Kazuto Kawabata	P	1					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	SS	128					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	SS	9					.000
Toshihiko Sonoda	SS	3					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	SS	2					.000
Toshimi Kubo	SS	2					.000
Totals		1803	0	0	0	0	.000

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