1978 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 62-50
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Takeshi Koba (62-50)
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Ballpark: Hiroshima Municipal Stadium

1978 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Roster

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Japan Central League ended the 1978 season with a record of 62 wins and 50 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Toyo Carp scored 713 runs, best in the league. Hiroshima yielded 596 runs. Koji Yamamoto walloped 44 home runs for the team, while Adrian Garrett, Jitsuo Mizutani, Jim Lyttle and Sachio Kinugasa each swatted 15 or more, too. Koji Yamamoto drove in 112 runs. Jitsuo Mizutani paced all regular batters by connecting at a .348 clip. Hiroaki Fukushi topped the team with 15 wins, and Yutaka Enatsu recorded a 3.03 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Adrian Garrett and Jim Lyttle 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
Hiroaki Fukushi	15	8	.652	3.60	41	32	4	12	2	0	230.0	236	96	92	23	70	2	94	5	0	1	972
Kojiro Ikegaya	13	7	.650	4.23	35	32	1	10	0	1	208.3	212	108	98	27	93	2	132	4	0	0	916
Manabu Kitabeppu	10	7	.588	4.58	39	25	0	8	2	0	175.0	180	91	89	27	56	0	98	7	0	2	745
Satoshi Takahashi	10	14	.417	5.36	38	33	3	7	0	0	191.3	217	125	114	28	62	3	103	5	0	7	847
Yutaka Enatsu	5	4	.556	3.02	49	0	39	0	0	12	95.3	77	32	32	7	38	3	99	2	1	1	395
Yutaka Ono	3	1	.750	3.75	41	3	9	1	1	0	74.3	67	34	31	12	28	2	54	1	0	3	314
Hiroki Watanabe	2	1	.667	5.60	33	0	4	0	0	0	35.3	32	23	22	6	17	0	20	1	0	1	157
Masashi Doi	2	2	.500	5.28	17	0	8	0	0	1	30.7	33	21	18	2	10	0	23	2	0	0	138
Seiji Kobayashi	1	0	1.000	3.38	2	1	0	0	0	0	8.0	7	3	3	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	31
Yoshiro Sotokoba	1	3	.250	5.79	14	3	6	0	0	0	23.3	22	17	15	4	18	1	14	2	0	1	110
Satoshi Niimi	0	0		6.52	5	1	4	0	0	1	9.7	15	7	7	1	4	0	12	0	0	1	47
Shinichi Takagi	0	0		7.71	5	0	2	0	0	0	4.7	7	4	4	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	20
Takuya Mochizuki	0	0		8.71	14	0	6	0	0	0	10.3	18	10	10	2	5	0	4	1	0	0	55
Shigefumi Tanabe	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Kazuo Yamane	0	0		27.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Satoru Miwa	0	3	.000	3.80	42	0	6	0	0	0	47.3	41	22	20	5	23	3	22	4	1	0	205
Totals	62	50	.554	4.39	378	130	92	38	5	15	1145.0	1169	596	558	146	428	16	682	36	2	17	4961

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
Jim Lyttle	130	578	524	85	155	30	1	33	108	2	8	36	77	.296	.347	.546	.893	286	12	9	2	7	4
Koji Yamamoto	130	563	473	114	153	28	0	44	112	12	4	84	74	.323	.425	.662	1.086	313	10	2	0	4	9
Jitsuo Mizutani	119	441	402	60	140	23	0	25	75	2	3	33	48	.348	.399	.592	.991	238	8	3	0	3	2
Yoshihiko Takahashi	110	472	427	72	129	19	10	7	47	15	20	32	46	.302	.365	.443	.808	189	3	11	1	1	0
Adrian Garrett	130	543	462	76	125	9	0	40	97	2	4	72	104	.271	.378	.550	.927	254	17	8	0	1	10
Sachio Kinugasa	130	547	461	81	123	18	1	30	87	9	13	69	83	.267	.372	.505	.878	233	14	11	2	4	8
Shiro Mizunuma	127	445	388	51	105	19	3	7	46	3	7	44	47	.271	.344	.389	.733	151	12	1	9	3	7
Tomio Kinoshita	99	278	240	32	68	14	0	3	27	2	0	14	30	.283	.333	.379	.712	91	6	4	20	0	0
Toshiyuki Mimura	95	302	261	48	65	11	0	11	23	0	0	32	35	.249	.331	.418	.749	109	4	1	6	2	1
Junzo Uchida	68	112	98	15	32	7	1	0	11	0	0	12	9	.327	.393	.418	.811	41	4	0	0	2	0
Tsuyoshi Oshita	64	134	115	15	25	3	0	1	7	2	4	13	7	.217	.295	.270	.564	31	6	0	5	1	0
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	52	56	46	7	16	1	0	1	11	0	1	10	3	.348	.464	.435	.899	20	0	0	0	0	1
Kojiro Ikegaya	36	81	74	4	16	4	1	1	10	0	0	2	23	.216	.228	.338	.566	25	0	0	2	3	0
Satoshi Takahashi	39	70	58	4	15	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	13	.259	.283	.293	.576	17	0	1	10	0	0
Hiroaki Fukushi	42	88	77	7	14	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	34	.182	.203	.208	.410	16	1	1	9	0	0
Akio Nakao	59	49	39	7	10	3	0	0	3	3	1	4	10	.256	.318	.333	.652	13	0	0	5	1	0
Shuichi Fukazawa	77	26	25	13	9	3	0	1	1	0	2	1	7	.360	.385	.600	.985	15	0	0	0	0	0
Yutaka Enatsu	49	27	23	1	8	4	0	0	4	0	0	4	6	.348	.444	.522	.966	12	0	0	0	0	0
Yutaka Ono	41	15	14	2	6	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	3	.429	.467	.786	1.252	11	0	0	0	0	0
Hironori Shogaki	30	27	19	2	6	1	0	0	6	0	0	8	1	.316	.519	.368	.887	7	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Tatsukawa	12	30	28	2	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.214	.241	.250	.491	7	2	0	1	0	0
Yoshiyuki Sano	19	23	21	1	5	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.238	.261	.381	.642	8	0	0	0	1	0
Manabu Kitabeppu	39	57	47	4	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	18	.106	.189	.106	.295	5	2	0	4	1	0
Satoru Miwa	42	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Toshifumi Takatsuki	11	11	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Michihara	20	18	17	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.118	.167	.118	.284	2	0	1	0	0	0
Yoshiro Sotokoba	15	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeki Morioka	8	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiaki Oka	49	2	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Seiji Kobayashi	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takahiro Kenmotsu	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroki Watanabe	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masashi Doi	18	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	5	0	0
Satoshi Niimi	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1904	5027	4377	713	1244	205	18	205	692	54	69	481	699	.284	.360	.480	.839	2100	101	53	82	34	42

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jitsuo Mizutani	1B	107					.000
Sachio Kinugasa	1B	63					.000
Junzo Uchida	1B	20					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	1B	5					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	1B	4					.000
Toshifumi Takatsuki	1B	1					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	1B	1					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	2B	69					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	2B	55					.000
Tsuyoshi Oshita	2B	49					.000
Akio Nakao	2B	19					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	2B	3					.000
Jim Lyttle	2B	3					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	2B	2					.000
Sachio Kinugasa	3B	121					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	3B	32					.000
Akio Nakao	3B	17					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	3B	14					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	3B	1					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	3B	1					.000
Shiro Mizunuma	C	127					.000
Hiroyuki Michihara	C	20					.000
Mitsuo Tatsukawa	C	12					.000
Koji Yamamoto	OF	130					.000
Jim Lyttle	OF	130					.000
Adrian Garrett	OF	130					.000
Shuichi Fukazawa	OF	52					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	OF	33					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	OF	9					.000
Hironori Shogaki	OF	4					.000
Junzo Uchida	OF	2					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	OF	2					.000
Takahiro Kenmotsu	OF	2					.000
Yutaka Enatsu	P	49					.000
Satoru Miwa	P	42					.000
Yutaka Ono	P	41					.000
Hiroaki Fukushi	P	41					.000
Manabu Kitabeppu	P	39					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	P	38					.000
Kojiro Ikegaya	P	35					.000
Hiroki Watanabe	P	33					.000
Masashi Doi	P	17					.000
Yoshiro Sotokoba	P	14					.000
Takuya Mochizuki	P	14					.000
Shinichi Takagi	P	5					.000
Satoshi Niimi	P	5					.000
Kazuo Yamane	P	2					.000
Seiji Kobayashi	P	2					.000
Shigefumi Tanabe	P	1					.000
Yoshihiko Takahashi	SS	101					.000
Akio Nakao	SS	19					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	SS	19					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	SS	18					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	SS	2					.000
Totals		1777	0	0	0	0	.000

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