1959 Nishitetsu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 66-64
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Osamu Mihara (66-64)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Ballpark: Heiwadai Stadium

1959 Nishitetsu Lions Roster

The Nishitetsu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1959 season with a record of 66 wins and 64 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The Lions scored 494 runs and gave up 459 runs. Yasumitsu Toyoda led Nishitetsu with 17 home runs and accounted for 81 RBI. Teruyuki Takakura topped all regular batters by hitting .304. Kazuhisa Inao notched 30 wins on the mound for the squad and a team-best 1.66 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound. Osamu Mihara 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
Kazuhisa Inao	30	15	.667	1.66	75	30	40	23	5		402.3	300	86	74	14	82	17	321	9	0	1	1568
Yukio Shimabara	12	11	.522	2.39	49	31	5	4	0		244.3	213	75	65	16	55	11	139	5	0	0	984
Sadao Nishimura	6	4	.600	2.45	29	12	5	2	1		91.7	80	31	25	2	22	1	58	3	0	2	366
Tadao Wako	6	6	.500	3.29	40	12	11	2	1		104.0	100	45	38	4	38	1	86	5	0	0	445
Hisafumi Kawamura	4	5	.444	4.08	20	12	3	0	0		64.0	63	33	29	3	23	2	26	2	0	4	272
Tadashi Yamanomoto	3	2	.600	2.13	21	8	1	0	0		71.7	58	23	17	4	19	1	42	2	0	1	285
Junichi Nakajima	2	2	.500	1.91	12	6	0	2	2		42.3	32	11	9	1	12	1	24	0	0	0	168
Takayuki Hata	1	1	.500	3.93	8	5	1	0	0		18.3	23	10	8	3	5	0	13	0	0	0	85
Yasuo Yonekawa	1	5	.167	5.23	28	4	7	0	0		63.7	77	44	37	5	15	0	44	3	0	1	283
Kihachiro Tanaka	1	9	.100	3.36	55	16	21	0	0		136.7	123	55	51	9	34	1	102	6	0	1	554
Fujio Danno	0	0		0.00	4	1	2	0	0		4.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	15
Yoshio Sato	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0		2.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	9
Shoji Kuwahara	0	0		6.00	5	1	2	0	0		6.0	5	5	4	1	5	0	9	0	0	1	28
Hachiro Abe	0	1	.000	4.05	28	2	6	0	0		33.3	39	17	15	4	11	0	19	1	0	1	148
Yasunobu Murayama	0	3	.000	5.00	15	4	7	0	0		27.0	32	23	15	6	7	1	7	1	1	0	124
Totals	66	64	.508	2.66	390	144	111	33	9	0	1311.3	1149	459	388	72	329	36	893	37	1	12	5334

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
Yasumitsu Toyoda	133	534	447	61	134	18	4	17	81	13	11	78	68	.300	.403	.472	.875	211	17	2	3	4	18
Teruyuki Takakura	121	474	434	60	132	16	6	5	34	17	5	27	62	.304	.344	.403	.747	175	3	1	9	3	1
Yoji Tamatsukuri	134	369	347	36	88	12	4	3	26	5	7	18	48	.254	.290	.337	.628	117	3	0	4	0	1
Norifumi Kido	117	364	339	35	87	13	9	2	25	6	5	22	84	.257	.303	.366	.669	124	6	1	1	1	0
Hiroshi Oshita	90	277	254	20	77	10	0	3	27	1	3	14	31	.303	.341	.378	.719	96	6	2	4	3	2
Yu Hanai	123	326	291	34	74	8	1	3	29	5	2	22	43	.254	.311	.320	.631	93	5	3	8	2	0
Seiji Sekiguchi	120	344	318	24	69	10	0	2	25	4	0	18	43	.217	.256	.267	.523	85	13	0	4	4	1
Akira Ogi	128	316	281	38	62	11	2	7	31	8	6	16	52	.221	.268	.349	.617	98	8	3	14	2	0
Hiromi Wada	97	257	244	24	59	6	3	3	19	3	2	8	39	.242	.266	.328	.594	80	6	0	5	0	0
Kusuo Tanaka	90	277	260	20	57	7	4	3	27	3	3	12	44	.219	.264	.312	.576	81	7	4	1	0	0
Taisuke Kobuchi	105	297	258	29	51	8	5	4	28	9	3	30	52	.198	.297	.314	.611	81	5	7	1	1	1
Futoshi Nakanishi	59	181	153	21	45	10	1	7	29	2	3	24	24	.294	.387	.510	.897	78	6	1	0	3	7
Tadayuki Inoue	69	203	188	14	38	4	0	4	18	1	1	10	43	.202	.243	.287	.530	54	7	1	1	3	0
Yasuhiko Kawai	94	228	194	15	36	9	2	2	13	1	2	25	55	.186	.284	.284	.567	55	4	2	6	1	2
Yoshizo Tanabe	68	113	106	7	31	7	1	1	12	0	0	1	14	.292	.296	.406	.702	43	4	0	5	1	1
Kazuhisa Inao	77	161	150	18	31	7	0	2	12	0	0	6	44	.207	.236	.293	.529	44	4	0	4	1	0
Akio Kono	78	145	136	11	20	10	0	0	6	0	2	7	25	.147	.189	.221	.409	30	3	0	2	0	0
Yukio Shimabara	50	83	78	6	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	3	21	.115	.148	.128	.276	10	0	0	2	0	0
Yasuo Takiuchi	73	98	87	7	9	5	0	1	5	1	0	6	31	.103	.161	.195	.357	17	3	0	5	0	0
Takao Ogi	41	52	44	2	7	2	0	0	2	0	1	8	9	.159	.288	.205	.493	9	2	0	0	0	0
Naoji Urata	13	22	20	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	.250	.318	.250	.568	5	0	1	0	0	0
Hisafumi Kawamura	20	21	20	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.200	.238	.250	.488	5	0	0	0	0	0
Tadao Wako	43	31	29	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.138	.167	.138	.305	4	0	0	1	0	0
Takao Miyake	16	17	17	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.118	.118	.118	.235	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kihachiro Tanaka	55	30	27	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.074	.138	.074	.212	2	0	0	1	0	0
Makoto Kuboyama	3	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yasunobu Murayama	16	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hachiro Abe	29	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Yonekawa	28	18	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.067	.176	.067	.243	1	0	0	1	0	0
Takeshi Hibino	13	15	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Yamanomoto	21	20	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.056	.056	.056	.111	1	1	0	2	0	0
Sadao Nishimura	29	28	26	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	13	.038	.107	.038	.146	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shoji Kuwahara	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takara Hiratsuka	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toru Misao	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takayuki Hata	8	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Junichi Nakajima	12	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	1	1	0	0
Hideyuki Kikuchi	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2189	5341	4832	494	1140	175	42	69	455	79	57	366	912	.236	.292	.332	.624	1606	113	29	85	29	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kusuo Tanaka	1B	70					.000
Akio Kono	1B	68					.000
Tadayuki Inoue	1B	63					.000
Futoshi Nakanishi	1B	13					.000
Yasuo Takiuchi	1B	1					.000
Norifumi Kido	1B	1					.000
Akira Ogi	2B	122					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	2B	53					.000
Yasuo Takiuchi	2B	45					.000
Futoshi Nakanishi	2B	8					.000
Norifumi Kido	2B	6					.000
Tadayuki Inoue	2B	2					.000
Yasumitsu Toyoda	2B	1					.000
Yoshizo Tanabe	2B	1					.000
Teruyuki Takakura	2B	1					.000
Yasunobu Murayama	2B	1					.000
Norifumi Kido	3B	107					.000
Futoshi Nakanishi	3B	34					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	3B	28					.000
Kusuo Tanaka	3B	13					.000
Yasuo Takiuchi	3B	12					.000
Hideyuki Kikuchi	3B	2					.000
Tadayuki Inoue	3B	1					.000
Hiromi Wada	C	93					.000
Yasuhiko Kawai	C	90					.000
Naoji Urata	C	10					.000
Takeshi Hibino	C	4					.000
Makoto Kuboyama	C	2					.000
Yoji Tamatsukuri	OF	124					.000
Teruyuki Takakura	OF	120					.000
Seiji Sekiguchi	OF	100					.000
Yu Hanai	OF	95					.000
Hiroshi Oshita	OF	79					.000
Yoshizo Tanabe	OF	34					.000
Takao Ogi	OF	27					.000
Kusuo Tanaka	OF	23					.000
Takao Miyake	OF	5					.000
Takara Hiratsuka	OF	5					.000
Tadao Wako	OF	3					.000
Futoshi Nakanishi	OF	2					.000
Takeshi Hibino	OF	2					.000
Yukio Shimabara	OF	1					.000
Yasuo Ogawa	OF	1					.000
Tadayuki Inoue	OF	1					.000
Kazuhisa Inao	OF	1					.000
Kazuhisa Inao	P	75					.000
Kihachiro Tanaka	P	55					.000
Yukio Shimabara	P	49					.000
Tadao Wako	P	40					.000
Sadao Nishimura	P	29					.000
Yasuo Yonekawa	P	28					.000
Hachiro Abe	P	28					.000
Tadashi Yamanomoto	P	21					.000
Hisafumi Kawamura	P	20					.000
Yasunobu Murayama	P	15					.000
Junichi Nakajima	P	12					.000
Takayuki Hata	P	8					.000
Shoji Kuwahara	P	5					.000
Fujio Danno	P	4					.000
Yoshio Sato	P	1					.000
Yasumitsu Toyoda	SS	132					.000
Taisuke Kobuchi	SS	19					.000
Yasuo Takiuchi	SS	9					.000
Akira Ogi	SS	1					.000
Totals		2026	0	0	0	0	.000

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