1955 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 92-37
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Shigeru Mizuhara (92-37)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1955 Yomiuri Giants Roster

Japan Series - Yomiuri Giants 4 games, Nankai Hawks 3

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1955 season with a record of 92 wins and 37 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Giants topped the circuit with 579 runs, ignited by 84 home runs. Yomiuri allowed 291 runs, least in the league. Wally Yonamine paced the team with 13 home runs Tetsuharu Kawakami recorded 79 runs batted in and topped all regular batters by hitting .338. Takumi Otomo recorded 30 wins on the mound for the squad, while Takehiko Bessho and Hiroshi Nakao, too added 15 or more wins, too Takehiko Bessho registered a 1.33 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound. Shigeru Mizuhara 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	WP	BF
Takumi Otomo	30	6	.833	1.75	42	34	8	25	7		303.7	213	73	59	15	54	1	206	9	0	1164
Takehiko Bessho	23	8	.742	1.33	50	27	23	17	7		312.0	241	65	46	12	45	1	152	2	1	1197
Hiroshi Nakao	16	9	.640	2.11	31	23	6	7	1		183.0	149	54	43	11	44	1	81	5	0	722
Tatsuyoshi Yasuhara	12	8	.600	1.75	37	27	7	8	4		195.3	144	48	38	11	64	1	98	3	3	777
Masanori Iritani	5	0	1.000	2.17	16	7	6	2	0		70.7	51	18	17	5	11	0	26	1	0	268
Takao Aoki	2	1	.667	1.63	12	3	6	0	0		27.7	21	6	5	1	10	0	16	0	0	104
Sho Horiuchi	2	2	.500	2.23	13	5	5	1	0		44.3	23	13	11	2	10	0	31	1	0	163
Hideo Fujimoto	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	1	0	0		5.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
Bill Nishita	1	2	.333	2.09	10	3	4	1	1		38.7	26	9	9	2	8	0	21	0	0	149
Kiyoshi Matsuda	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0		2.0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	8
Masayoshi Miura	0	0		2.45	1	0	0	0	0		3.7	4	1	1	0	0	0	4	0	1	14
Akira Kunimatsu	0	1	.000	3.86	8	1	2	0	0		7.0	10	3	3	0	4	0	0	0	0	35
Totals	92	37	.713	1.75	223	130	69	61	20	0	1193.0	885	291	232	59	251	4	635	21	5	4617

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
Tetsuharu Kawakami	120	515	435	55	147	15	1	12	79	17	10	69	33	.338	.425	.460	.885	200	10	3	0	8	34
Wally Yonamine	107	486	424	68	132	22	2	13	65	10	3	49	66	.311	.382	.465	.846	197	5	1	9	3	3
Tatsuro Hiroka	125	511	447	76	115	16	9	11	43	17	6	49	70	.257	.339	.407	.746	182	2	7	6	2	0
Takashi Iwamoto	118	437	383	60	102	7	10	12	60	18	6	37	50	.266	.329	.431	.760	165	3	3	6	8	0
Saburo Hirai	111	409	353	47	99	17	0	5	32	14	10	27	35	.280	.332	.371	.704	131	3	2	24	3	0
Yuko Minamimura	105	371	330	34	83	9	2	2	30	13	2	25	29	.252	.303	.309	.612	102	12	1	11	4	0
Shigeru Chiba	96	393	321	37	76	6	2	4	30	1	2	55	36	.237	.348	.305	.654	98	12	0	17	0	0
Bunji Kashiwaeda	85	250	214	33	72	14	3	2	31	10	2	30	26	.336	.419	.458	.877	98	1	1	4	1	0
Jun Hirota	97	340	297	32	66	11	1	6	30	7	0	35	33	.222	.312	.327	.638	97	4	4	3	1	2
Toshio Miyamoto	51	201	183	23	48	3	1	6	22	4	4	13	40	.262	.320	.388	.708	71	7	3	1	1	0
Shigeru Fujio	60	171	154	22	44	4	2	5	29	3	2	16	25	.286	.357	.435	.792	67	1	1	0	0	2
Kazuo Higasa	69	184	169	13	38	5	2	2	20	2	1	12	25	.225	.275	.314	.588	53	9	0	2	1	0
Hirofumi Naito	104	152	138	23	28	4	0	3	16	8	6	8	25	.203	.253	.297	.550	41	5	2	2	2	0
Tatsuyoshi Yasuhara	37	75	72	7	25	6	0	0	4	0	0	0	15	.347	.347	.431	.778	31	0	0	3	0	0
Takehiko Bessho	50	122	113	8	25	4	0	1	11	0	0	2	16	.221	.233	.283	.516	32	3	0	6	1	0
Takumi Otomo	42	129	116	11	24	4	0	0	13	0	0	2	33	.207	.233	.241	.475	28	3	2	9	0	0
Morimichi Iwashita	54	71	68	10	14	1	0	0	3	6	1	2	13	.206	.229	.221	.449	15	0	0	1	0	0
Minoru Kakurai	72	84	76	11	13	4	2	0	10	3	2	8	21	.171	.250	.276	.526	21	2	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Nakao	31	69	57	0	10	0	0	0	7	0	0	4	21	.175	.226	.175	.401	10	0	0	7	1	0
Bill Nishita	10	13	12	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	4	1	0	1	0	0
Susumu Munesue	11	17	17	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.235	.235	.294	.529	5	0	0	0	0	0
Masataka Tsuchiya	7	14	12	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	.250	.357	.417	.774	5	0	0	0	0	0
Masanori Iritani	16	25	21	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	3	.143	.250	.190	.440	4	0	0	1	0	0
Sho Horiuchi	13	15	12	3	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.167	.231	.167	.397	2	0	1	2	0	0
Masayoshi Miura	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Kunimatsu	8	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Mori	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kunio Watanabe	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Fujimoto	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takao Aoki	12	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	1	0	1	0	0
Totals	1615	5068	4436	579	1179	156	38	84	540	133	57	449	625	.266	.335	.375	.710	1663	84	31	116	36	41

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Tetsuharu Kawakami	1B	129					.000
Morimichi Iwashita	1B	37					.000
Hirofumi Naito	2B	96					.000
Shigeru Chiba	2B	95					.000
Tatsuro Hiroka	2B	10					.000
Tatsuro Hiroka	3B	98					.000
Bunji Kashiwaeda	3B	67					.000
Masataka Tsuchiya	3B	6					.000
Jun Hirota	C	96					.000
Shigeru Fujio	C	51					.000
Susumu Munesue	C	9					.000
Takashi Iwamoto	OF	115					.000
Wally Yonamine	OF	107					.000
Yuko Minamimura	OF	91					.000
Minoru Kakurai	OF	61					.000
Kazuo Higasa	OF	58					.000
Toshio Miyamoto	OF	50					.000
Kunio Watanabe	OF	1					.000
Takehiko Bessho	P	50					.000
Takumi Otomo	P	42					.000
Tatsuyoshi Yasuhara	P	37					.000
Hiroshi Nakao	P	31					.000
Masanori Iritani	P	16					.000
Sho Horiuchi	P	13					.000
Takao Aoki	P	12					.000
Bill Nishita	P	10					.000
Akira Kunimatsu	P	8					.000
Kiyoshi Matsuda	P	2					.000
Masayoshi Miura	P	1					.000
Hideo Fujimoto	P	1					.000
Saburo Hirai	SS	106					.000
Tatsuro Hiroka	SS	42					.000
Totals		1548	0	0	0	0	.000

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