1964 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 71-69
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Tetsuharu Kawakami (71-69)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1964 Yomiuri Giants Roster

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1964 season with a record of 71 wins and 69 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Giants led the league with 560 runs, sparked by 147 home runs. Yomiuri allowed 472 runs. Sadaharu Oh crushed 55 homers for the team, while Isao Shibata and Shigeo Nagashima walloped 15 or more, too. Sadaharu Oh drove in 119 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .320. Kunio Jonouchi paced the team with 18 wins and a team-best 2.23 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers. Tetsuharu Kawakami 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
Kunio Jonouchi	18	16	.529	2.23	52	32	13	17	5		262.0	238	79	65	15	39	2	119	6	0	2	1040
Akira Takahashi	12	14	.462	3.03	35	25	6	10	2		181.0	190	71	61	17	27	3	90	1	1	1	742
Yoshiaki Ito	11	12	.478	3.44	44	31	6	9	2		206.7	173	84	79	21	75	2	130	4	2	1	847
Yoshio Kitagawa	8	5	.615	3.25	38	13	14	2	1		130.3	127	52	47	15	31	3	35	4	0	0	528
Motoshi Fujita	8	11	.421	2.72	41	15	19	3	2		175.3	149	63	53	15	61	3	86	3	0	6	710
Yukinori Miyata	7	5	.583	2.33	35	4	13	3	1		96.7	67	26	25	4	33	0	74	1	1	1	379
Nobuyuki Okuma	2	0	1.000	5.33	8	5	1	1	0		25.3	26	18	15	3	11	0	8	0	0	0	112
Yoshiyasu Nanamori	2	1	.667	2.00	4	3	1	1	1		18.0	6	4	4	0	11	0	7	1	0	0	70
Hidetake Watanabe	2	5	.286	5.14	15	11	1	2	1		61.3	66	36	35	10	22	0	23	0	0	1	260
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	1	0	1.000	2.45	24	0	12	0	0		58.7	46	16	16	6	11	0	31	2	0	0	227
Akio Masuda	0	0		5.00	4	0	3	0	0		9.0	10	5	5	1	2	0	7	0	0	0	39
Minoru Nakamura	0	0		5.50	9	1	3	0	0		18.0	27	18	11	5	6	0	4	1	0	0	89
Totals	71	69	.507	3.01	309	140	92	48	15	0	1242.3	1125	472	416	112	329	13	614	23	4	12	5043

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
Sadaharu Oh	140	599	472	110	151	24	0	55	119	6	4	119	81	.320	.456	.720	1.176	340	8	3	0	5	20
Shigeo Nagashima	133	566	459	81	144	19	6	31	90	13	2	96	34	.314	.433	.584	1.017	268	8	5	0	6	15
Isao Shibata	134	566	495	86	125	20	6	15	40	50	11	68	77	.253	.344	.408	.752	202	4	1	2	0	0
Masahiko Mori	123	459	426	35	115	17	1	12	65	1	1	27	22	.270	.314	.399	.713	170	8	1	3	2	1
Tatsuro Hiroka	117	391	349	35	73	10	2	6	34	3	3	31	67	.209	.273	.301	.574	105	8	1	7	3	0
Kazuhiko Sakazaki	114	324	283	27	67	12	0	5	38	3	0	30	53	.237	.312	.332	.644	94	4	2	7	2	1
Akira Kunimatsu	126	382	346	34	67	7	1	4	17	16	3	26	29	.194	.251	.254	.505	88	4	1	7	2	0
Yutaka Sudo	84	244	225	29	63	9	1	0	24	9	4	11	26	.280	.319	.329	.648	74	4	2	6	0	0
Kazuhide Funada	95	301	272	27	59	11	2	2	10	7	9	19	40	.217	.283	.294	.577	80	9	6	4	0	3
Toshio Yanagida	94	239	223	25	42	7	0	8	28	9	4	13	34	.188	.235	.327	.563	73	6	1	1	1	0
Akira Shiobara	78	158	147	12	31	4	0	0	13	0	0	7	14	.211	.256	.238	.495	35	5	2	2	0	0
Yoshiyuki Ikezawa	77	138	126	8	27	4	0	3	12	0	0	11	11	.214	.283	.317	.600	40	5	1	0	0	2
Yoshihiro Aiba	34	72	70	6	15	1	2	0	8	2	3	2	13	.214	.236	.286	.522	20	1	0	0	0	0
Yasuharu Taki	50	97	90	4	15	2	0	1	5	2	0	6	11	.167	.227	.222	.449	20	1	1	0	0	0
Yoshiaki Ito	45	74	66	4	11	2	0	0	8	0	0	4	15	.167	.211	.197	.408	13	0	0	3	1	0
Kunio Jonouchi	52	93	82	3	11	1	1	0	1	0	0	4	41	.134	.174	.171	.345	14	0	0	7	0	0
Masayuki Yamazaki	36	57	49	5	9	1	0	2	3	2	0	8	19	.184	.298	.327	.625	16	1	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Fujio	33	66	62	4	8	2	0	1	4	2	0	4	16	.129	.182	.210	.391	13	2	0	0	0	0
Isao Ohashi	30	40	38	2	7	3	0	0	5	0	0	2	9	.184	.225	.263	.488	10	1	0	0	0	0
Yukinobu Kuroe	26	49	43	7	7	0	0	0	1	2	4	3	7	.163	.250	.163	.413	7	0	2	1	0	0
Akira Hotta	8	20	18	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	.333	.400	.389	.789	7	0	0	0	0	0
Motoshi Fujita	42	60	52	3	6	1	0	1	6	0	1	4	21	.115	.175	.192	.368	10	0	0	3	1	0
Yoshio Kitagawa	39	43	39	1	5	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	9	.128	.150	.205	.355	8	1	0	3	0	0
Akira Takahashi	37	65	57	0	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	24	.088	.148	.088	.235	5	0	0	4	0	0
Masahisa Fukuda	45	14	13	7	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.231	.286	.231	.516	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yukinori Miyata	35	29	26	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	10	.077	.107	.192	.299	5	1	0	1	1	0
Nobuyuki Okuma	10	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	27	13	13	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	1	0	0	0	0
Hidetake Watanabe	16	21	18	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.056	.056	.056	.111	1	0	0	3	0	0
Masaharu Matsumura	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Yawata	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Minoru Nakamura	11	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Michio Hei	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyasu Nanamori	6	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Makoto Kato	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1906	5201	4576	560	1077	161	22	147	538	128	50	505	705	.235	.314	.377	.690	1723	82	29	67	24	42

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Sadaharu Oh	1B	139					.000
Akira Kunimatsu	1B	3					.000
Yutaka Sudo	2B	76					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	66					.000
Akira Shiobara	2B	35					.000
Yasuharu Taki	2B	14					.000
Masaharu Matsumura	2B	1					.000
Yoshiaki Ito	2B	1					.000
Shigeo Nagashima	3B	133					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	9					.000
Akira Shiobara	3B	4					.000
Yukinobu Kuroe	3B	1					.000
Masahiko Mori	C	122					.000
Shigeru Fujio	C	25					.000
Isao Ohashi	C	21					.000
Hideo Yawata	C	1					.000
Hiroshi Ogo	C	1					.000
Isao Shibata	OF	123					.000
Akira Kunimatsu	OF	116					.000
Kazuhiko Sakazaki	OF	103					.000
Toshio Yanagida	OF	83					.000
Yoshiyuki Ikezawa	OF	41					.000
Masahisa Fukuda	OF	37					.000
Masayuki Yamazaki	OF	25					.000
Masahiro Saito	OF	16					.000
Kazuhide Funada	OF	9					.000
Akira Hotta	OF	8					.000
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	OF	3					.000
Hiromoto Murase	OF	3					.000
Akira Takahashi	OF	2					.000
Nobuyuki Okuma	OF	2					.000
Yoshiyasu Nanamori	OF	2					.000
Minoru Nakamura	OF	2					.000
Akio Masuda	OF	2					.000
Yoshihiro Aiba	OF	2					.000
Hidekazu Yoshizawa	OF	1					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	OF	1					.000
Katsutoshi Miyadera	OF	1					.000
Yoshio Kitagawa	OF	1					.000
Motoshi Fujita	OF	1					.000
Kunio Jonouchi	P	52					.000
Yoshiaki Ito	P	44					.000
Motoshi Fujita	P	41					.000
Yoshio Kitagawa	P	38					.000
Akira Takahashi	P	35					.000
Yukinori Miyata	P	35					.000
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	P	24					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	P	15					.000
Minoru Nakamura	P	9					.000
Nobuyuki Okuma	P	8					.000
Yoshiyasu Nanamori	P	4					.000
Akio Masuda	P	4					.000
Tatsuro Hiroka	SS	111					.000
Kazuhide Funada	SS	25					.000
Yukinobu Kuroe	SS	20					.000
Yasuharu Taki	SS	19					.000
Akira Shiobara	SS	1					.000
Totals		1721	0	0	0	0	.000

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