1953 Taiyo-Shochiku Robins Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 52-77
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Tokuro Konishi (52-77)
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1953 Taiyo-Shochiku Robins Roster

The Taiyo-Shochiku Robins of the Japan Central League ended the 1953 season with a record of 52 wins and 77 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Robins plated 467 runs and allowed 622 runs. Isamu Fujii paced Taiyo-Shochiku with 15 home runs and drove in 57 runs, while leading batters with significant playing time with a .299 average. Masatoshi Gondo topped the team with 15 wins and a team-best 2.78 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances. Tokuro Konishi 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
Masatoshi Gondo	15	12	.556	2.77	35	26	7	13	1		220.7	179	96	68	12	105		170	11	3	6	940
Hiroyoshi Takano	12	9	.571	3.98	25	24	0	14	3		196.7	195	100	87	19	56		69	12	0	1	845
Takashi Eda	7	15	.318	4.07	32	21	10	9	2		159.3	162	80	72	14	34		33	0	1	1	653
Hideo Shimizu	5	3	.625	3.25	15	14	1	2	1		80.3	76	32	29	9	29		27	1	0	0	342
Ienari Arimura	5	8	.385	3.92	20	18	0	3	0		110.3	109	57	48	6	56		34	1	0	2	485
Kikuo Sugikawa	3	5	.375	3.62	35	2	18	0	0		107.0	108	54	43	5	36		43	5	0	1	454
Katsuyoshi Kamamoto	2	6	.250	4.37	22	6	12	2	0		80.3	86	43	39	5	27		32	6	0	1	347
Masao Kanda	1	2	.333	5.26	24	0	17	0	0		63.3	72	38	37	8	18		30	1	0	0	267
Takashi Ogihara	1	3	.250	5.27	9	2	5	0	0		27.3	26	16	16	1	7		5	0	0	0	113
Tsuneo Kobayashi	1	5	.167	6.93	13	9	1	0	0		49.3	71	39	38	6	20		12	0	0	0	231
Kazuo Shimamoto	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0		2.0	3	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	8
Hisaji Kitagawa	0	0		3.38	5	0	3	0	0		10.7	7	5	4	0	6		7	1	0	1	47
Itsuro Ukita	0	0		6.35	9	0	5	0	0		11.3	14	8	8	0	5		3	0	0	1	50
Kimio Sato	0	1	.000	7.94	8	0	7	0	0		17.0	20	17	15	1	13		6	2	0	2	84
Naoaki Hayashi	0	8	.000	7.75	9	8	0	0	0		33.7	57	37	29	4	13		11	0	0	1	167
Totals	52	77	.403	4.10	263	130	87	43	7	0	1169.3	1185	622	533	90	425	0	482	40	4	17	5033

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
Isamu Fujii	112	443	412	51	123	18	4	15	57	3	0	29	27	.299	.348	.471	.819	194	5	2	0
Akiyoshi Kobayashi	126	527	488	52	117	14	3	3	38	9	10	37	45	.240	.293	.299	.593	146	9	0	2
Haruo Medoki	120	428	406	41	111	21	4	12	56	5	7	16	36	.273	.311	.433	.744	176	13	6	0
Nobuyuki Hikiji	130	484	462	44	111	13	4	0	37	18	5	16	21	.240	.270	.286	.556	132	16	3	3
Yoshiyuki Iwamoto	110	455	411	47	110	17	1	9	49	8	4	38	40	.268	.337	.380	.717	156	10	5	1
Takeshi Miyazaki	112	503	468	43	101	18	1	5	29	21	7	23	42	.216	.254	.291	.545	136	6	1	11
Noboru Aota	105	438	404	45	99	18	4	9	40	2	2	31	30	.245	.300	.376	.677	152	14	1	2
Kikuji Hirayama	85	226	205	23	58	12	2	4	20	4	1	18	22	.283	.341	.420	.760	86	4	0	3
Shoji Arakawa	76	205	176	17	46	7	1	1	20	12	3	26	17	.261	.356	.330	.686	58	6	0	3
Jiro Miyazaki	64	204	190	16	44	5	0	0	11	5	1	9	15	.232	.277	.258	.535	49	2	3	2
Naofumi Yasui	55	145	126	20	29	3	1	0	2	6	3	11	19	.230	.292	.270	.562	34	2	0	8
Shigemasa Masu	50	96	86	7	21	2	0	1	8	3	1	3	16	.244	.270	.302	.572	26	4	0	7
Ichiro Matsuoka	36	82	79	6	20	2	1	2	7	0	0	3	11	.253	.280	.380	.660	30	1	0	0
Masatoshi Gondo	35	79	73	4	17	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	16	.233	.233	.260	.493	19	1	0	6
Shinya Tsunashima	87	110	97	28	17	3	0	1	12	11	3	11	15	.175	.273	.237	.510	23	5	2	0
Ienari Arimura	44	71	64	6	16	1	1	0	5	1	0	7	7	.250	.324	.297	.621	19	1	0	0
Hiroyoshi Takano	25	71	63	2	13	0	1	0	4	0	0	4	15	.206	.254	.238	.492	15	0	0	4
Shozo Nakatsu	42	45	38	3	9	1	1	0	4	0	0	6	4	.237	.356	.316	.671	12	2	1	0
Hideo Shimizu	15	31	27	3	8	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	.296	.321	.407	.729	11	3	0	3
Takashi Eda	32	53	49	3	8	0	0	1	4	0	1	3	8	.163	.212	.224	.436	11	1	0	1
Katsuyoshi Kamamoto	22	22	22	1	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.227	.227	.273	.500	6	0	0	0
Kikuo Sugikawa	35	32	28	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	10	.179	.281	.214	.496	6	1	2	0
Takashi Ogihara	11	8	7	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	.429	.500	.429	.929	3	0	1	0
Masaru Sugimoto	19	19	18	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	.167	.211	.167	.377	3	1	0	0
Itsuro Ukita	9	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0
Kunio Nakamura	3	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0
Masao Kanda	25	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	3
Tsuneo Kobayashi	13	14	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.083	.154	.083	.237	1	0	0	1
Kenji Hirano	15	15	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.071	.133	.071	.205	1	0	0	0
Hisaji Kitagawa	5	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	1	1
Masaki Takahashi	27	10	10	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Naoaki Hayashi	9	9	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	2
Kimio Sato	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Masanori Mori	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Kazuo Shimamoto	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1.000			0	0	1	0
Totals	1665	4852	4461	467	1099	161	30	63	417	109	49	299	442	.246	.298	.338	.636	1509	107	29	63	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Akiyoshi Kobayashi	1B	125					.000
Shoji Arakawa	1B	10					.000
Takeshi Miyazaki	1B	4					.000
Takeshi Miyazaki	2B	110					.000
Shoji Arakawa	2B	16					.000
Naofumi Yasui	2B	14					.000
Shigemasa Masu	2B	5					.000
Shoji Tezawa	2B	1					.000
Nobuyuki Hikiji	3B	60					.000
Shigemasa Masu	3B	43					.000
Ichiro Matsuoka	3B	35					.000
Naofumi Yasui	3B	26					.000
Shoji Arakawa	3B	12					.000
Kenji Hirano	3B	11					.000
Takeshi Miyazaki	3B	5					.000
Haruo Medoki	C	108					.000
Shoji Arakawa	C	35					.000
Akiyoshi Kobayashi	C	6					.000
Kunio Nakamura	C	2					.000
Isamu Fujii	OF	111					.000
Yoshiyuki Iwamoto	OF	109					.000
Noboru Aota	OF	104					.000
Kikuji Hirayama	OF	67					.000
Shinya Tsunashima	OF	64					.000
Masaki Takahashi	OF	14					.000
Shozo Nakatsu	OF	3					.000
Masaru Sugimoto	OF	1					.000
Kikuo Sugikawa	P	35					.000
Masatoshi Gondo	P	35					.000
Takashi Eda	P	32					.000
Hiroyoshi Takano	P	25					.000
Masao Kanda	P	24					.000
Katsuyoshi Kamamoto	P	22					.000
Ienari Arimura	P	20					.000
Hideo Shimizu	P	15					.000
Tsuneo Kobayashi	P	13					.000
Itsuro Ukita	P	9					.000
Takashi Ogihara	P	9					.000
Naoaki Hayashi	P	9					.000
Kimio Sato	P	8					.000
Hisaji Kitagawa	P	5					.000
Kazuo Shimamoto	P	2					.000
Nobuyuki Hikiji	SS	82					.000
Jiro Miyazaki	SS	63					.000
Shigemasa Masu	SS	2					.000
Totals		1511	0	0	0	0	.000

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