1953 Kokutetsu Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 45-79
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Norio Nishigaki (45-79)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1953 Kokutetsu Swallows Roster

The Kokutetsu Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1953 season with a record of 45 wins and 79 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 380 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 525 runs. Takao Sato led Kokutetsu with 22 home runs Kiyoshi Sugiura accounted for 49 RBI. Takao Sato paced hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .260 clip. Masaichi Kaneda earned 23 wins on the mound for the squad and a team-best 2.37 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances. Norio Nishigaki 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
Masaichi Kaneda	23	13	.639	2.37	47	33	11	24	6		303.7	222	90	80	10	135		229	8	0	1	1233
Yoshiaki Inoue	9	26	.257	4.22	44	25	9	3	0		202.7	184	125	95	13	98		78	12	1	3	888
Toshio Kitabatake	3	1	.750	3.41	19	9	6	0	0		63.3	61	26	24	5	24		23	1	0	1	274
Jun Hakota	3	8	.273	3.80	30	10	12	3	1		120.7	118	65	51	13	48		39	4	0	4	522
Yoshitomo Miyaji	3	13	.188	3.67	33	17	11	2	0		112.7	115	65	46	8	51		51	2	0	3	493
Zenjiro Tadokoro	2	6	.250	3.88	29	13	11	1	0		104.3	108	50	45	9	57		54	1	0	2	464
Teruo Owaki	2	9	.182	3.27	18	13	4	1	1		77.0	78	41	28	4	29		30	0	0	1	332
Norio Furuya	0	0		2.55	14	0	8	0	0		24.7	32	13	7	1	8		6	0	0	0	110
Kozo Koyama	0	0		3.38	3	0	2	0	0		8.0	6	3	3	0	6		5	0	0	0	36
Yasuhiko Matsuda	0	0		3.86	6	0	5	0	0		11.7	14	7	5	1	3		3	2	0	1	52
Takehiko Fukazawa	0	0		3.91	12	0	6	0	0		25.3	36	16	11	3	7		12	1	0	0	117
Hideo Otsuji	0	1	.000	2.65	7	2	1	0	0		17.0	16	6	5	1	9		5	0	0	0	76
Akira Takahashi	0	2	.000	3.12	11	3	5	0	0		26.0	37	18	9	1	22		13	0	0	2	136
Totals	45	79	.363	3.36	273	125	91	34	8	0	1097.0	1027	525	409	69	497	0	548	31	1	18	4733

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
Takao Sato	119	505	439	80	114	32	3	22	47	42	14	57	71	.260	.347	.497	.844	218	8	2	7
Tamaichi Yasui	111	438	414	35	102	18	4	6	44	11	11	22	19	.246	.286	.353	.639	146	15	1	1
Hiroshi Tsujii	106	361	330	22	87	9	1	2	32	7	4	24	20	.264	.319	.315	.634	104	5	3	4
Sakae Nakamura	105	369	325	28	85	9	1	0	15	12	7	23	34	.262	.314	.295	.610	96	8	2	19
Kiyoshi Sugiura	103	377	340	34	79	7	1	10	49	3	1	28	54	.232	.306	.347	.653	118	14	8	1
Kazuo Satake	111	373	332	25	74	10	2	2	29	3	4	33	28	.223	.295	.283	.578	94	7	1	7
Masataka Tsuchiya	99	287	261	37	71	7	0	0	14	27	14	21	19	.272	.329	.299	.627	78	2	1	4
Yukihiko Machida	108	304	276	33	62	6	5	5	25	7	8	22	36	.225	.284	.337	.621	93	11	1	5
Yuichi Fukuda	102	301	271	15	57	4	2	2	22	6	4	24	29	.210	.275	.262	.537	71	5	0	6
Masao Chihara	103	295	276	18	51	8	1	0	17	3	4	11	27	.185	.221	.221	.442	61	10	2	6
Masaichi Kaneda	50	128	120	9	33	7	1	3	11	1	0	5	18	.275	.310	.425	.735	51	0	1	2
Ryohei Moriya	50	125	117	5	28	8	1	1	10	1	0	7	19	.239	.288	.350	.638	41	4	1	0
Jun Hakota	66	92	92	6	25	3	2	1	4	0	0	0	2	.272	.272	.380	.652	35	4	0	0
Shinichiro Inoue	44	95	92	4	21	4	0	1	2	0	1	3	7	.228	.253	.304	.557	28	3	0	0
Eiji Hatsuoka	59	95	90	5	16	1	1	0	2	0	1	4	6	.178	.221	.211	.432	19	4	1	0
Yoshiaki Inoue	44	74	73	3	13	2	1	0	10	0	0	1	3	.178	.189	.233	.422	17	2	0	0
Hideo Okubo	43	83	76	6	12	3	2	0	6	3	1	6	16	.158	.220	.250	.470	19	1	0	1
Yoshitomo Miyaji	33	37	35	2	10	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	7	.286	.306	.314	.620	11	0	0	1
Zenjiro Tadokoro	29	37	34	1	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.176	.176	.176	.353	6	0	0	3
Takehiko Fukazawa	13	7	7	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.429	.429	.571	1.000	4	0	0	0
Akira Takahashi	14	11	10	1	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	.300	.364	.500	.864	5	0	0	0
Teruo Owaki	18	26	21	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.143	.217	.143	.360	3	0	0	3
Norio Furuya	19	7	7	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0
Mitsuo Watanabe	17	12	12	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	0
Katsumi Ukai	12	18	18	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	2	0	0	0
Toshio Kitabatake	19	21	20	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	.100	.143	.150	.293	3	0	0	0
Kozo Koyama	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Soichi Fujita	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Aoyama	5	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	1	0
Yasuhiko Matsuda	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Kinoshita	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Hideo Otsuji	8	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Mototoshi Tahara	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals	1628	4494	4103	380	963	142	29	55	346	129	76	296	444	.235	.290	.324	.614	1328	103	25	70	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiroshi Tsujii	1B	85					.000
Ryohei Moriya	1B	45					.000
Kiyoshi Sugiura	1B	18					.000
Jun Hakota	1B	2					.000
Yuichi Fukuda	2B	102					.000
Masao Chihara	2B	24					.000
Katsumi Ukai	2B	10					.000
Kiyoshi Sugiura	2B	8					.000
Takao Sato	2B	8					.000
Sakae Nakamura	2B	3					.000
Mitsuo Watanabe	2B	2					.000
Tamaichi Yasui	2B	1					.000
Hideo Okubo	2B	1					.000
Masao Chihara	3B	78					.000
Kiyoshi Sugiura	3B	75					.000
Yukihiko Machida	3B	1					.000
Kazuo Satake	C	110					.000
Shinichiro Inoue	C	33					.000
Masahiro Kinoshita	C	3					.000
Tamaichi Yasui	OF	107					.000
Takao Sato	OF	105					.000
Yukihiko Machida	OF	105					.000
Masataka Tsuchiya	OF	74					.000
Eiji Hatsuoka	OF	41					.000
Hiroshi Tsujii	OF	7					.000
Mitsuo Watanabe	OF	1					.000
Norio Furuya	OF	1					.000
Masaichi Kaneda	P	47					.000
Yoshiaki Inoue	P	44					.000
Yoshitomo Miyaji	P	33					.000
Jun Hakota	P	30					.000
Zenjiro Tadokoro	P	29					.000
Toshio Kitabatake	P	19					.000
Teruo Owaki	P	18					.000
Norio Furuya	P	14					.000
Takehiko Fukazawa	P	12					.000
Akira Takahashi	P	11					.000
Hideo Otsuji	P	7					.000
Yasuhiko Matsuda	P	6					.000
Kozo Koyama	P	3					.000
Sakae Nakamura	SS	101					.000
Hideo Okubo	SS	36					.000
Takao Sato	SS	6					.000
Kiyoshi Sugiura	SS	2					.000
Mitsuo Watanabe	SS	1					.000
Jun Hakota	SS	1					.000
Totals		1470	0	0	0	0	.000

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