1968 Tokyo Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 67-63
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Wataru Nonin (67-63)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Tokyo Stadium

1968 Tokyo Orions Roster

The Tokyo Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1968 season with a record of 67 wins and 63 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Orions paced the circuit with 578 runs, ignited by 155 home runs. Tokyo surrendered 553 runs. George Altman walloped 34 home runs for the team, while Takenori Ikebe, Art López and Kihachi Enomoto each swatted 15 or more also. George Altman drove in 100 runs and topped all regular batters with a .320 average. Fumio Narita led the squad with 20 wins, and Katsuji Sakai added 15 or more wins, too Fumio Narita recorded a 2.91 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

George Altman and Art López 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	20	11	.645	2.91	49	38	9	19	2		306.7	238	112	99	33	88	13	187	7	0	0	1235
Katsuji Sakai	16	17	.485	3.03	45	40	1	14	4		276.3	259	112	93	23	71	15	170	15	0	0	1147
Motohiko Sato	12	13	.480	3.70	48	26	17	9	1		207.0	207	95	85	22	73	10	88	7	0	0	880
Yoshiro Tsumajima	4	1	.800	3.95	38	1	14	0	0		66.0	60	36	29	7	14	1	16	0	0	0	267
Masaaki Koyama	4	4	.500	3.31	25	12	12	0	0		87.0	82	38	32	11	27	2	53	4	0	0	372
Kojiro Yokoyama	4	4	.500	3.51	34	4	15	0	0		89.7	81	39	35	8	27	8	53	4	1	1	375
Ryunosuke Kawato	3	4	.429	2.41	28	9	4	2	1		86.0	79	34	23	5	29	8	27	0	0	4	367
Shichiro Sakota	3	4	.429	4.12	27	4	9	2	0		67.7	68	38	31	7	21	1	24	3	0	0	289
Kazuto Kawabata	1	1	.500	2.74	8	1	3	0	0		23.0	18	8	7	3	4	0	13	0	0	0	91
Takayuki Ryu	0	0		18.00	4	0	1	0	0		2.0	5	4	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	11
Katsuhiko Maki	0	0		27.00	2	1	1	0	0		1.0	5	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Choji Murata	0	1	.000	3.86	3	0	1	0	0		7.0	8	3	3	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	29
Mitsuo Nishi	0	1	.000	3.86	5	0	3	0	0		9.3	16	11	4	2	3	1	4	0	0	0	47
Soroku Yagisawa	0	1	.000	4.19	6	3	2	0	0		19.3	16	10	9	2	6	1	4	3	0	0	81
Masaaki Kitaru	0	1	.000	5.65	5	0	1	0	0		14.3	11	9	9	3	7	0	11	1	0	0	59
Totals	67	63	.515	3.32	327	139	93	46	8	0	1262.3	1153	553	466	128	371	60	655	45	1	6	5259

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
George Altman	139	586	531	84	170	33	1	34	100	8	5	43	80	.320	.372	.578	.950	307	10	5	0	7	3
Art López	137	600	561	81	162	27	3	23	74	10	11	30	56	.289	.328	.471	.798	264	22	4	2	3	2
Kihachi Enomoto	129	554	487	70	149	31	0	21	77	7	1	62	62	.306	.384	.499	.883	243	8	2	0	3	10
Takenori Ikebe	131	544	504	61	124	19	0	15	47	9	4	19	56	.246	.282	.373	.655	188	4	7	12	2	0
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	128	466	420	47	107	18	5	14	49	8	7	33	75	.255	.316	.421	.737	177	5	6	4	3	4
Takeo Daigo	123	376	348	23	73	9	0	8	32	3	3	20	51	.210	.257	.305	.561	106	10	2	6	0	8
Masuho Maeda	102	321	285	31	70	12	3	10	27	4	5	25	36	.246	.306	.414	.720	118	6	1	7	3	1
Tadashi Hatta	82	235	214	24	60	3	1	4	20	3	3	14	9	.280	.322	.360	.682	77	3	0	5	2	0
Yoshiaki Shinohara	104	249	225	30	59	8	2	3	16	2	2	12	32	.262	.317	.356	.673	80	6	7	3	2	0
Takayuki Nishida	110	191	178	37	50	6	1	4	14	14	5	8	28	.281	.319	.393	.712	70	1	2	3	0	0
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	79	178	155	23	41	5	0	9	25	3	1	21	28	.265	.350	.471	.821	73	0	0	1	1	1
Masao Yamada	65	125	116	12	37	3	1	2	12	0	1	5	12	.319	.352	.414	.766	48	4	1	3	0	1
Takahiro Tokutsu	65	137	121	7	35	9	1	1	19	3	1	10	18	.289	.343	.405	.748	49	1	2	0	4	0
Katsuji Sakai	51	102	96	9	21	2	0	0	7	1	0	2	19	.219	.232	.240	.472	23	0	0	3	1	0
Yasuo Otsuka	71	130	113	7	21	3	0	2	3	0	0	13	25	.186	.281	.265	.547	30	3	2	2	0	2
Reiji Iishi	57	103	88	5	17	1	0	3	13	0	1	9	20	.193	.291	.307	.598	27	1	4	0	2	0
Fumio Narita	52	118	102	4	17	2	0	1	8	0	0	6	33	.167	.213	.216	.429	22	0	0	10	0	0
Motohiko Sato	52	68	61	6	14	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	16	.230	.254	.262	.516	16	1	1	5	0	0
Masahiko Osaka	91	38	34	8	9	1	0	0	5	4	1	3	13	.265	.324	.294	.618	10	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Sonoda	24	15	15	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	.333	.333	.333	.667	5	1	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Koyama	31	26	23	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.130	.130	.174	.304	4	0	0	3	0	0
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	11	4	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	1.250	1.750	5	0	0	0	0	0
Ryunosuke Kawato	29	25	24	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	11	.083	.083	.208	.292	5	0	0	1	0	0
Choji Murata	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Susumu Satomi	43	7	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.143	.167	.310	1	1	0	0	1	0
Soroku Yagisawa	15	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiro Tsumajima	46	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shichiro Sakota	28	17	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.062	.062	.062	.125	1	1	0	1	0	0
Kojiro Yokoyama	36	20	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.062	.167	.062	.229	1	0	0	2	0	0
Kazuo Hasegawa	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuto Kawabata	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Kitaru	7	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Uchida	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshihiko Kodama	41	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Toru Mori	7	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Nishi	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teruo Namiki	8	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2125	5289	4794	578	1254	196	19	155	552	80	52	339	723	.262	.314	.407	.722	1953	89	46	76	34	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kihachi Enomoto	1B	129					.000
George Altman	1B	10					.000
Masuho Maeda	1B	7					.000
Masao Yamada	1B	6					.000
Reiji Iishi	1B	4					.000
Mitsuo Nishi	1B	3					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	1B	1					.000
Keiichi Uchida	1B	1					.000
Fumio Narita	1B	1					.000
Masaaki Koyama	1B	1					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	1B	1					.000
Masuho Maeda	2B	71					.000
Tadashi Hatta	2B	66					.000
Yoshiaki Shinohara	2B	52					.000
Yoshinori Sonoda	2B	22					.000
Yoshihiko Kodama	2B	15					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	11					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	2B	7					.000
Mitsuo Nishi	2B	5					.000
Motohiko Sato	2B	4					.000
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	2B	4					.000
Yoshiro Tsumajima	2B	2					.000
Katsuji Sakai	2B	2					.000
Fumio Narita	2B	2					.000
Katsuhiko Maki	2B	2					.000
Tsugunobu Ishida	2B	2					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	2B	1					.000
Keiichi Uchida	2B	1					.000
Susumu Satomi	2B	1					.000
Choji Murata	2B	1					.000
Masaaki Koyama	2B	1					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	2B	1					.000
Ryunosuke Kawato	2B	1					.000
Takenori Ikebe	3B	125					.000
Masuho Maeda	3B	18					.000
Yoshiaki Shinohara	3B	6					.000
Yoshihiko Kodama	3B	5					.000
Takeo Daigo	C	121					.000
Susumu Satomi	C	14					.000
Art López	OF	137					.000
George Altman	OF	136					.000
Takayuki Nishida	OF	91					.000
Masahiko Osaka	OF	68					.000
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	OF	55					.000
Takahiro Tokutsu	OF	43					.000
Masao Yamada	OF	31					.000
Susumu Satomi	OF	27					.000
Reiji Iishi	OF	23					.000
Yoshihiko Kodama	OF	18					.000
Yoshiro Tsumajima	OF	6					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	OF	6					.000
Katsuji Sakai	OF	4					.000
Masaaki Koyama	OF	4					.000
Takenori Ikebe	OF	3					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	OF	1					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	OF	1					.000
Keiichi Uchida	OF	1					.000
Shichiro Sakota	OF	1					.000
Mitsuo Nishi	OF	1					.000
Toru Mori	OF	1					.000
Katsuhiko Maki	OF	1					.000
Masuho Maeda	OF	1					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	OF	1					.000
Tadashi Hatta	OF	1					.000
Fumio Narita	P	49					.000
Motohiko Sato	P	48					.000
Katsuji Sakai	P	45					.000
Yoshiro Tsumajima	P	38					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	P	34					.000
Ryunosuke Kawato	P	28					.000
Shichiro Sakota	P	27					.000
Masaaki Koyama	P	25					.000
Kazuto Kawabata	P	8					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	P	6					.000
Mitsuo Nishi	P	5					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	P	5					.000
Takayuki Ryu	P	4					.000
Choji Murata	P	3					.000
Katsuhiko Maki	P	2					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	SS	119					.000
Yoshiaki Shinohara	SS	45					.000
Takenori Ikebe	SS	2					.000
Yoshihiko Kodama	SS	1					.000
Totals		1883	0	0	0	0	.000

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