1981 Yomiuri Giants Statistics
Team Record: 73-48
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Motoshi Fujita (73-48)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium
Japan Series - Yomiuri Giants 4 games, Nippon Ham Fighters 2
The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1981 season with a record of 73 wins and 48 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.
The Giants conceded 418 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Yomiuri plated 517 runs. Tatsunori Hara paced the team with 22 home runs, while Kazumasa Kono, Gary Thomasson and Kiyoshi Nakahata each walloped 15 or more, too. Tatsunori Hara accounted for 67 RBI. Kazunori Shinozuka topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .357. Suguru Egawa led the squad with 20 wins, and Takashi Nishimoto also added 15 or more victories also Mitsuo Sumi recorded a 1.47 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.
Roy White and Gary Thomasson both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.
Motoshi Fujita served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Suguru Egawa | 20 | 6 | .769 | 2.28 | 31 | 30 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 240.3 | 187 | 68 | 61 | 27 | 38 | 2 | 221 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 931 |
Takashi Nishimoto | 18 | 12 | .600 | 2.58 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 257.7 | 232 | 84 | 74 | 23 | 55 | 7 | 126 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1020 |
Hajime Kato | 12 | 6 | .667 | 2.91 | 30 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 158.0 | 133 | 54 | 51 | 20 | 63 | 7 | 97 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 652 |
Shoji Sadaoka | 11 | 7 | .611 | 3.71 | 31 | 30 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 196.7 | 185 | 85 | 81 | 25 | 59 | 5 | 122 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 817 |
Mitsuo Sumi | 8 | 5 | .615 | 1.47 | 51 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 104.3 | 55 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 33 | 1 | 121 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 397 |
Yoshitaka Katori | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.39 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37.7 | 25 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 148 |
Keishi Asano | 1 | 2 | .333 | 3.95 | 25 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43.3 | 39 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 188 |
Kazuaki Fujishiro | 1 | 2 | .333 | 5.63 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38.3 | 40 | 26 | 24 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 170 |
Tsuneo Horiuchi | 1 | 3 | .250 | 4.50 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 92 |
Kenyu Akamine | 0 | 0 | 3.60 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
Hisao Niura | 0 | 5 | .000 | 3.39 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 58.3 | 55 | 32 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 3 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 248 |
Totals | 73 | 48 | .603 | 2.88 | 262 | 130 | 83 | 47 | 13 | 22 | 1161.7 | 983 | 418 | 372 | 125 | 319 | 29 | 833 | 23 | 2 | 8 | 4686 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kazunori Shinozuka | 116 | 457 | 412 | 51 | 147 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 45 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 39 | .357 | .400 | .468 | .868 | 193 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 |
Kiyoshi Nakahata | 109 | 440 | 416 | 55 | 134 | 17 | 7 | 16 | 66 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 37 | .322 | .352 | .512 | .864 | 213 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Kazumasa Kono | 130 | 579 | 503 | 73 | 133 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 42 | 27 | 7 | 45 | 65 | .264 | .333 | .396 | .729 | 199 | 3 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 1 |
Tatsunori Hara | 125 | 507 | 470 | 64 | 126 | 23 | 6 | 22 | 67 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 78 | .268 | .308 | .483 | .791 | 227 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Roy White | 127 | 499 | 422 | 58 | 115 | 20 | 2 | 13 | 55 | 18 | 3 | 61 | 68 | .273 | .374 | .422 | .796 | 178 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Kenji Awaguchi | 116 | 371 | 336 | 50 | 105 | 17 | 3 | 13 | 35 | 11 | 6 | 31 | 45 | .312 | .369 | .497 | .866 | 167 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Gary Thomasson | 120 | 435 | 402 | 39 | 105 | 23 | 0 | 20 | 50 | 5 | 7 | 32 | 132 | .261 | .317 | .468 | .785 | 188 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Tadashi Matsumoto | 115 | 284 | 261 | 33 | 79 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 33 | 13 | 14 | 44 | .303 | .339 | .379 | .719 | 99 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
Kazuhiro Yamakura | 124 | 417 | 371 | 31 | 76 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 59 | .205 | .271 | .329 | .600 | 122 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
Koji Yamamoto | 95 | 197 | 179 | 16 | 43 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 16 | .240 | .299 | .352 | .651 | 63 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Takashi Nishimoto | 34 | 97 | 85 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25 | .212 | .261 | .294 | .555 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
Makoto Matsubara | 36 | 67 | 60 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | .233 | .299 | .283 | .582 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Suguru Egawa | 31 | 91 | 80 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 37 | .175 | .179 | .250 | .429 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
Shoji Sadaoka | 31 | 72 | 65 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | .154 | .191 | .169 | .360 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Kaoru Hirata | 29 | 41 | 38 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .237 | .256 | .474 | .730 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Yasuyuki Nakai | 84 | 31 | 29 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | .276 | .290 | .414 | .704 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Isao Shibata | 40 | 47 | 43 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | .186 | .234 | .279 | .513 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Masahiro Yanagida | 42 | 53 | 46 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | .130 | .245 | .217 | .463 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Hajime Kato | 30 | 56 | 49 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | .122 | .120 | .143 | .263 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
Takashi Yoshida | 40 | 35 | 31 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | .161 | .229 | .258 | .487 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Tsuneo Horiuchi | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .667 | .667 | .667 | 1.333 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yoshitaka Katori | 22 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kazuaki Fujishiro | 13 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mitsuo Sumi | 51 | 27 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .087 | .087 | .087 | .174 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Yasutomo Suzuki | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .600 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tomoharu Fukushima | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | .143 | .400 | .143 | .543 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hisao Niura | 14 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Akira Moritani | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tokuzo Nakatsukasa | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Itaru Ninomiya | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Keishi Asano | 26 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 1737 | 4861 | 4370 | 517 | 1171 | 174 | 25 | 135 | 492 | 119 | 55 | 338 | 751 | .268 | .323 | .412 | .735 | 1800 | 73 | 32 | 87 | 34 | 41 |
Fielding:
Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Koji Yamamoto | 1B | 75 | .000 | |||||
Kiyoshi Nakahata | 1B | 75 | .000 | |||||
Makoto Matsubara | 1B | 27 | .000 | |||||
Kaoru Hirata | 1B | 1 | .000 | |||||
Kazunori Shinozuka | 2B | 108 | .000 | |||||
Tatsunori Hara | 2B | 29 | .000 | |||||
Kaoru Hirata | 2B | 8 | .000 | |||||
Tatsunori Hara | 3B | 101 | .000 | |||||
Kiyoshi Nakahata | 3B | 39 | .000 | |||||
Yasutomo Suzuki | 3B | 1 | .000 | |||||
Takashi Yoshida | C | 36 | .000 | |||||
Tomoharu Fukushima | C | 7 | .000 | |||||
Kazuhiro Yamakura | OF | 124 | .000 | |||||
Roy White | OF | 122 | .000 | |||||
Kenji Awaguchi | OF | 111 | .000 | |||||
Gary Thomasson | OF | 109 | .000 | |||||
Tadashi Matsumoto | OF | 99 | .000 | |||||
Yasuyuki Nakai | OF | 66 | .000 | |||||
Masahiro Yanagida | OF | 14 | .000 | |||||
Isao Shibata | OF | 9 | .000 | |||||
Koji Yamamoto | OF | 3 | .000 | |||||
Itaru Ninomiya | OF | 2 | .000 | |||||
Tokuzo Nakatsukasa | OF | 1 | .000 | |||||
Mitsuo Sumi | P | 51 | .000 | |||||
Takashi Nishimoto | P | 34 | .000 | |||||
Shoji Sadaoka | P | 31 | .000 | |||||
Suguru Egawa | P | 31 | .000 | |||||
Hajime Kato | P | 30 | .000 | |||||
Keishi Asano | P | 25 | .000 | |||||
Yoshitaka Katori | P | 22 | .000 | |||||
Hisao Niura | P | 14 | .000 | |||||
Kazuaki Fujishiro | P | 12 | .000 | |||||
Tsuneo Horiuchi | P | 9 | .000 | |||||
Kenyu Akamine | P | 3 | .000 | |||||
Kazumasa Kono | SS | 130 | .000 | |||||
Yasutomo Suzuki | SS | 6 | .000 | |||||
Kazunori Shinozuka | SS | 2 | .000 | |||||
Totals | 1567 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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