1987 Seibu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 71-45
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Masahiko Mori (71-45)
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
Ballpark: MetLife Dome

1987 Seibu Lions Roster

Japan Series - Seibu Lions 4 games, Yomiuri Giants 2

The Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1987 season with a record of 71 wins and 45 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Lions led the league with just 434 runs allowed. Seibu scored 525 runs. Koji Akiyama walloped 43 home runs for the squad, while Kazuhiro Kiyohara swatted 15 or more also. Koji Akiyama drove in 94 runs. Hiromichi Ishige paced batters with significant playing time with a .269 average. Kimiyasu Kudo and Osamu Higashio topped the team with 15 wins each, and Kimiyasu Kudo recorded a 2.42 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

George Vukovich played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Seibu Lions to do so.

Masahiko Mori 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
Kimiyasu Kudo	15	4	.789	2.41	27	26	0	23	2	0	223.7	181	65	60	18	64	4	175	2	0	2	899
Osamu Higashio	15	9	.625	2.59	28	27	0	17	3	0	222.7	215	81	64	16	29	6	85	6	0	3	904
Taigen Kaku	13	4	.765	3.02	22	21	0	11	2	0	158.0	136	56	53	12	40	6	81	4	1	2	640
Hirohisa Matsunuma	8	5	.615	3.82	15	14	0	2	0	0	77.7	69	34	33	8	30	4	39	6	1	0	332
Hisanori Yokota	5	2	.714	1.64	18	8	2	4	1	0	88.0	67	21	16	5	23	3	39	1	0	0	347
Hisanobu Watanabe	5	3	.625	3.07	30	9	20	5	1	8	105.7	81	43	36	10	42	4	74	4	0	1	434
Kazuyuki Ono	4	11	.267	3.86	23	20	1	4	2	0	130.7	131	61	56	15	31	5	65	1	0	0	544
Norio Ichimura	2	0	1.000	5.82	27	0	0	0	0	0	21.7	26	15	14	5	7	3	5	0	0	0	96
Shigekazu Mori	1	0	1.000	1.57	22	0	7	0	0	1	28.7	24	6	5	0	12	4	10	0	0	0	119
Ryoji Moriyama	1	0	1.000	1.69	4	1	1	0	0	0	10.7	9	4	2	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	43
Masayuki Matsunuma	1	1	.500	2.00	21	0	16	0	0	5	27.0	25	6	6	2	10	3	12	0	0	1	112
Takeshi Ishii	1	1	.500	6.75	7	0	1	0	0	1	9.3	12	7	7	3	3	0	9	0	0	0	43
Yuji Kurohara	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Kazuo Yamane	0	0		2.57	6	0	3	0	0	0	7.0	5	2	2	1	7	0	4	1	0	0	33
Yukihiro Narita	0	0		3.77	7	0	4	0	0	0	14.3	17	7	6	1	5	0	3	0	0	0	61
Kazuaki Kawamura	0	0		4.50	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	3	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	9
Hirokazu Okada	0	0		6.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	16
Munenao Ogawa	0	1	.000	4.91	6	1	2	0	0	0	7.3	9	4	4	0	3	0	8	0	0	0	33
Koji Maeda	0	1	.000	8.22	6	2	2	0	0	0	7.7	16	8	7	2	2	1	4	2	0	0	43
Shinya Oda	0	3	.000	5.17	23	0	3	0	0	0	15.7	15	9	9	1	9	1	14	0	0	0	69
Totals	71	45	.612	2.97	296	130	64	66	11	15	1161.7	1044	434	383	102	323	44	635	27	2	10	4781

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
Hiromichi Ishige	130	582	525	80	141	20	0	11	41	14	3	47	89	.269	.331	.370	.701	194	6	3	5	2	5
Koji Akiyama	130	550	496	82	130	13	2	43	94	38	12	48	102	.262	.329	.556	.886	276	8	3	0	3	5
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	130	536	444	66	115	25	3	29	83	11	4	80	88	.259	.382	.525	.907	233	10	10	0	2	6
Tsutomu Ito	124	465	405	42	100	14	1	10	51	7	3	34	77	.247	.311	.360	.672	146	7	6	15	5	2
George Vukovich	101	364	320	38	78	15	1	14	46	0	3	41	53	.244	.332	.428	.761	137	2	2	0	1	2
Eiji Kanamori	91	291	268	21	65	13	1	2	22	3	1	13	25	.243	.279	.321	.600	86	6	1	8	1	1
Seiji Tomashino	106	313	277	31	61	7	4	7	22	14	5	14	49	.220	.257	.350	.607	97	6	0	21	1	0
Osamu Abe	83	228	203	27	55	6	2	7	26	4	2	18	37	.271	.329	.424	.753	86	5	1	3	3	3
Haruki Yoshitake	77	222	200	23	53	3	0	5	16	4	6	6	35	.265	.288	.355	.643	71	4	1	14	1	0
Norio Tanabe	78	241	223	24	50	10	1	7	15	3	2	11	37	.224	.260	.372	.632	83	7	0	6	1	0
Yoshihiro Nishioka	93	171	154	17	38	7	0	5	21	7	5	6	17	.247	.275	.390	.665	60	1	0	11	0	0
Masakazu Seike	72	174	152	18	34	6	0	0	8	1	1	7	29	.224	.256	.263	.519	40	2	0	14	1	0
Takahiro Shirahata	50	118	109	6	32	5	1	2	9	1	1	7	18	.294	.339	.413	.752	45	2	1	0	1	1
Koju Hirohashi	59	106	96	18	31	4	1	1	17	2	1	5	9	.323	.356	.417	.773	40	0	0	5	0	0
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	51	136	125	9	25	5	1	2	9	10	1	5	21	.200	.242	.304	.546	38	2	2	4	0	0
Hiromoto Okubo	56	78	71	4	17	1	0	3	17	0	0	2	18	.239	.282	.380	.662	27	1	3	0	2	0
Yoshiie Tachibana	40	74	70	8	16	5	0	2	5	0	1	4	13	.229	.270	.386	.656	27	2	0	0	0	0
Hisataka Yukizawa	57	66	58	6	12	1	0	3	7	1	0	5	13	.207	.266	.379	.645	22	2	0	2	1	1
Hideshi Nakada	23	29	27	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	10	.074	.107	.074	.181	2	0	1	1	0	0
Takanori Okamura	37	13	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.091	.231	.091	.322	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hisanobu Watanabe	30	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Seigo Fujino	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tadakatsu Haniyuda	13	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1638	4760	4237	525	1056	160	18	153	510	123	52	355	743	.249	.311	.404	.715	1711	73	34	109	25	26

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	1B	129					.000
Osamu Abe	1B	5					.000
Seiji Tomashino	1B	1					.000
Seiji Tomashino	2B	89					.000
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	2B	51					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	2B	24					.000
Masakazu Seike	2B	8					.000
Seigo Fujino	2B	2					.000
Norio Tanabe	2B	1					.000
Koju Hirohashi	2B	1					.000
Hiromichi Ishige	3B	128					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	3B	26					.000
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	3B	1					.000
Tsutomu Ito	C	123					.000
Hideshi Nakada	C	15					.000
Hiromoto Okubo	C	6					.000
Takahiro Shirahata	C	2					.000
Katsuya Soma	C	1					.000
Koji Akiyama	OF	130					.000
George Vukovich	OF	98					.000
Yoshihiro Nishioka	OF	86					.000
Haruki Yoshitake	OF	70					.000
Osamu Abe	OF	66					.000
Takanori Okamura	OF	37					.000
Eiji Kanamori	OF	14					.000
Seiji Tomashino	OF	11					.000
Yoshiie Tachibana	OF	6					.000
Tadakatsu Haniyuda	OF	4					.000
Koju Hirohashi	OF	2					.000
Hisanobu Watanabe	P	30					.000
Osamu Higashio	P	28					.000
Kimiyasu Kudo	P	27					.000
Norio Ichimura	P	27					.000
Kazuyuki Ono	P	23					.000
Shinya Oda	P	23					.000
Shigekazu Mori	P	22					.000
Taigen Kaku	P	22					.000
Masayuki Matsunuma	P	21					.000
Hisanori Yokota	P	18					.000
Hirohisa Matsunuma	P	15					.000
Yukihiro Narita	P	7					.000
Takeshi Ishii	P	7					.000
Kazuo Yamane	P	6					.000
Munenao Ogawa	P	6					.000
Koji Maeda	P	6					.000
Ryoji Moriyama	P	4					.000
Kazuaki Kawamura	P	2					.000
Hirokazu Okada	P	1					.000
Yuji Kurohara	P	1					.000
Norio Tanabe	SS	76					.000
Masakazu Seike	SS	65					.000
Hiromichi Ishige	SS	27					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	SS	3					.000
Seigo Fujino	SS	3					.000
Totals		1607	0	0	0	0	.000

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