1969 Lotte Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 69-54
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Wataru Nonin (69-54)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Tokyo Stadium

1969 Lotte Orions Roster

The Lotte Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1969 season with a record of 69 wins and 54 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Orions paced the league with 555 runs, fueled by 142 home runs. Lotte yielded 475 runs. Art López powered the squad with 23 home runs, while Kihachi Enomoto, Michiyo Arito and George Altman each walloped 15 or more as well. George Altman drove in 82 runs. Takenori Ikebe topped hitters with significant playing time with a .322 average. Fumio Narita led the squad with 22 wins, and Masaaki Kitaru added 15 or more wins also Masaaki Kitaru registered a 1.72 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Art López and George Altman both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Wataru Nonin 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
Fumio Narita	22	13	.629	2.73	48	43	3	21	9		317.0	276	115	96	29	70	5	185	9	0	2	1276
Masaaki Kitaru	15	9	.625	1.72	51	6	33	2	0		162.0	135	45	31	12	31	7	70	9	0	2	651
Masaaki Koyama	11	7	.611	2.96	33	29	2	8	2		182.3	173	70	60	15	31	4	136	5	0	1	747
Choji Murata	6	8	.429	3.57	37	20	3	5	5		146.3	110	64	58	11	80	2	90	2	0	5	615
Katsuji Sakai	6	8	.429	3.96	24	22	1	3	0		127.3	108	58	56	26	49	7	85	10	0	0	538
Kazuto Kawabata	3	0	1.000	3.14	22	4	9	0	0		48.7	41	20	17	8	24	1	27	1	0	0	208
Soroku Yagisawa	3	2	.600	3.60	44	2	21	0	0		90.0	71	40	36	11	24	4	56	3	0	1	359
Shichiro Sakota	3	4	.429	2.69	34	0	12	0	0		67.0	74	29	20	6	13	0	25	1	0	1	281
Kojiro Yokoyama	0	0		10.80	2	0	0	0	0		3.3	7	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	17
Ryunosuke Kawato	0	0		21.60	4	0	1	0	0		1.7	3	4	4	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	11
Yoshiro Tsumajima	0	1	.000	8.22	4	0	1	0	0		7.7	10	8	7	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	36
Motohiko Sato	0	2	.000	8.31	9	4	5	0	0		17.3	26	18	16	3	9	1	11	2	1	0	86
Totals	69	54	.561	3.11	312	130	91	39	16	0	1170.7	1034	475	405	125	337	31	685	43	1	12	4825

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
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	126	541	495	73	149	19	4	14	60	7	6	34	74	.301	.346	.440	.787	218	1	3	4	5	0
Art López	122	498	459	61	138	16	3	23	81	9	7	22	37	.301	.341	.499	.840	229	13	9	3	5	3
Takenori Ikebe	105	445	394	56	127	17	1	11	33	16	5	23	44	.322	.364	.454	.818	179	6	5	19	4	1
George Altman	129	500	457	65	123	25	2	21	82	9	1	33	64	.269	.318	.470	.788	215	8	3	0	7	2
Kihachi Enomoto	123	462	400	60	109	17	1	21	66	9	2	54	42	.272	.355	.478	.832	191	6	1	0	7	2
Takeo Daigo	130	436	408	31	107	14	1	9	47	6	4	14	37	.262	.286	.368	.654	150	10	2	6	6	2
Michiyo Arito	108	410	369	57	105	18	1	21	55	4	7	37	111	.285	.354	.509	.863	188	4	3	0	1	0
Osamu Hirose	113	278	266	10	47	5	1	2	12	5	3	5	50	.177	.197	.226	.423	60	7	2	4	1	0
Masuho Maeda	109	211	182	20	45	7	3	4	22	11	3	21	18	.247	.332	.385	.716	70	5	3	3	2	0
Yoshiaki Shinohara	66	121	112	12	28	4	2	1	3	2	4	5	12	.250	.292	.348	.640	39	0	2	1	1	0
Yoshihiro Iizuka	60	97	86	18	23	2	0	0	4	12	2	7	12	.267	.323	.291	.613	25	1	0	4	0	0
Takahiro Tokutsu	79	86	81	7	22	3	1	2	13	0	0	4	4	.272	.302	.407	.710	33	3	0	0	1	1
Fumio Narita	49	126	115	12	22	3	1	5	16	0	0	4	30	.191	.231	.365	.597	42	2	2	5	0	1
Takayuki Nishida	84	105	94	15	21	1	1	1	5	12	2	5	12	.223	.284	.287	.572	27	1	3	3	0	0
Reiji Iishi	63	81	74	7	17	4	0	3	13	0	0	4	13	.230	.284	.405	.689	30	0	2	0	1	0
Masaaki Koyama	33	63	58	3	11	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.190	.203	.190	.393	11	2	0	4	0	0
Masaaki Kitaru	51	55	49	6	10	2	0	2	4	0	0	5	12	.204	.278	.367	.645	18	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	29	53	48	4	9	3	0	1	3	0	0	3	9	.188	.235	.312	.548	15	3	0	2	0	0
Yasuo Otsuka	35	38	35	5	7	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	6	.200	.243	.343	.586	12	1	1	1	0	0
Masao Yamada	63	75	61	3	7	0	0	0	2	0	1	10	11	.115	.250	.115	.365	7	1	1	3	0	5
Choji Murata	37	44	43	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	22	.116	.116	.116	.233	5	1	0	1	0	0
Katsuji Sakai	25	43	40	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	17	.100	.143	.125	.268	5	1	0	1	0	0
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	54	20	17	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	.176	.211	.176	.387	3	1	0	1	1	0
Kazuto Kawabata	25	13	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	1	0	1	0	0
Shichiro Sakota	35	16	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	0	0	0	0	0
Soroku Yagisawa	46	18	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.111	.111	.111	.222	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Sakaki	8	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kojiro Yokoyama	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiro Tsumajima	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Motohiko Sato	9	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	1	0	0
Satoru Yoshioka	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Iijima	61	0	0	26	0	0	0	0	0	10	8	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1992	4849	4400	555	1146	161	23	142	529	112	56	297	667	.260	.311	.404	.715	1779	78	42	68	42	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kihachi Enomoto	1B	119					.000
Michiyo Arito	1B	31					.000
Masuho Maeda	1B	16					.000
George Altman	1B	8					.000
Masao Yamada	1B	5					.000
Susumu Satomi	1B	5					.000
Reiji Iishi	1B	4					.000
Yoshiro Tsumajima	1B	2					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	1B	1					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	1B	1					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	1B	1					.000
Yoshihiro Iizuka	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	125					.000
Yoshihiro Iizuka	2B	11					.000
Yoshiaki Shinohara	2B	5					.000
Masuho Maeda	2B	2					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	2B	1					.000
Michiyo Arito	3B	108					.000
Masuho Maeda	3B	85					.000
Yoshiaki Shinohara	3B	3					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	3B	1					.000
Takenori Ikebe	3B	1					.000
Takeo Daigo	C	129					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	C	5					.000
Susumu Satomi	C	3					.000
George Altman	OF	125					.000
Art López	OF	120					.000
Takenori Ikebe	OF	103					.000
Takayuki Nishida	OF	68					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	OF	42					.000
Takahiro Tokutsu	OF	33					.000
Masao Yamada	OF	29					.000
Reiji Iishi	OF	18					.000
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	OF	14					.000
Susumu Satomi	OF	5					.000
Ryunosuke Kawato	OF	5					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	OF	3					.000
Kazuto Kawabata	OF	3					.000
Yoshiro Tsumajima	OF	2					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	OF	1					.000
Shichiro Sakota	OF	1					.000
Katsuji Sakai	OF	1					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	P	51					.000
Fumio Narita	P	48					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	P	44					.000
Choji Murata	P	37					.000
Shichiro Sakota	P	34					.000
Masaaki Koyama	P	33					.000
Katsuji Sakai	P	24					.000
Kazuto Kawabata	P	22					.000
Motohiko Sato	P	9					.000
Yoshiro Tsumajima	P	4					.000
Ryunosuke Kawato	P	4					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	P	2					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	113					.000
Yoshiaki Shinohara	SS	55					.000
Yoshihiro Iizuka	SS	35					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	SS	3					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	SS	1					.000
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	SS	1					.000
Totals		1766	0	0	0	0	.000

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