1979 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 48-69
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Takao Sato (0-0), Tatsuro Hiroka (0-0)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1979 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1979 season with a record of 48 wins and 69 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 550 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 646 runs, most in the circuit. John Scott led Yakult with 28 home runs, while Katsuo Osugi, Toru Sugiura, Dave Hilton and Tsutomu Wakamatsu each walloped 15 or more, too. John Scott drove in 81 runs. Tsutomu Wakamatsu topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .306. Kenichi Kajima paced the squad with 10 wins, and Hiromu Matsuoka registered a 3.97 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Dave Hilton and John Scott both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Takao Sato and Tatsuro Hiroka 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
Kenichi Kajima	10	12	.455	5.09	43	21	6	1	0	0	141.3	137	91	80	27	60	4	116	10	0	2	623
Hiromu Matsuoka	9	11	.450	3.96	50	17	26	4	1	13	181.7	182	92	80	21	52	2	139	6	1	1	762
Yasujiro Suzuki	8	11	.421	4.27	37	30	4	4	1	0	185.7	198	95	88	20	45	7	68	8	0	1	772
Shinichiro Ihara	6	4	.600	4.39	35	1	23	0	0	4	80.0	72	42	39	16	32	4	55	2	0	3	339
Toshio Kanbe	6	8	.429	4.32	25	24	0	3	1	0	125.0	146	64	60	21	49	5	65	2	0	1	557
Takao Obana	4	9	.308	4.93	36	22	5	2	1	0	137.0	163	84	75	15	49	4	75	7	0	1	615
Tetsuo Nishii	3	2	.600	3.60	43	0	8	0	0	0	70.0	74	33	28	14	20	5	39	2	0	0	295
Makoto Kurata	1	1	.500	3.83	36	0	16	0	0	0	49.3	39	23	21	5	23	4	47	0	0	2	208
Takeshi Yasuda	1	4	.200	6.22	19	10	4	0	0	0	46.3	69	32	32	8	21	3	19	1	0	1	221
Sueki Harada	0	0		3.60	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	4	2	2	1	4	0	3	0	0	0	20
Koji Torihara	0	0		4.50	6	0	2	0	0	0	10.0	10	5	5	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	42
Yukio Kurosaka	0	0		4.55	19	0	9	0	0	0	31.7	34	16	16	6	13	2	26	0	0	0	137
Masaki Miura	0	1	.000	3.38	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	5	2	2	0	3	0	6	1	0	0	24
Kunio Kobayashi	0	1	.000	4.50	13	0	3	0	0	0	10.0	15	5	5	2	5	0	6	0	0	0	49
Teruo Aida	0	2	.000	9.45	8	2	0	0	0	0	13.3	23	17	14	5	7	1	6	0	0	0	71
Keiichi Sakai	0	3	.000	6.65	24	3	7	0	0	0	44.7	51	43	33	10	24	1	31	1	0	0	203
Totals	48	69	.410	4.59	402	130	116	14	4	17	1136.3	1222	646	580	173	412	42	702	40	1	12	4938

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
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	120	492	438	81	134	30	1	17	65	8	4	45	38	.306	.376	.495	.871	217	6	5	2	2	7
Toru Sugiura	126	498	423	63	120	19	1	22	54	10	6	64	67	.284	.382	.489	.871	207	2	5	3	3	4
John Scott	112	470	434	72	118	19	0	28	81	19	11	28	84	.272	.320	.509	.829	221	3	3	4	1	0
Kazuhide Funada	105	420	371	51	105	13	0	14	49	6	2	29	33	.283	.337	.431	.768	160	9	3	13	4	1
Dave Hilton	105	432	399	59	103	14	3	19	48	1	1	25	65	.258	.302	.451	.753	180	7	1	5	2	0
Katsuo Osugi	118	456	413	46	100	18	0	17	68	1	1	38	74	.242	.309	.409	.718	169	10	3	0	2	1
Akihiko Oya	100	342	321	26	87	10	0	6	31	6	3	11	32	.271	.305	.358	.663	115	7	5	4	1	1
Kunio Fukutomi	102	228	202	24	54	8	1	8	29	1	4	22	46	.267	.336	.436	.772	88	5	0	2	2	0
Shigeru Sugimura	77	209	185	10	45	5	1	0	9	0	1	11	32	.243	.286	.281	.567	52	9	0	13	0	1
Fujio Sumi	48	179	153	27	44	5	0	7	21	1	0	18	29	.288	.368	.458	.825	70	8	2	5	1	0
Shintaro Mizutani	100	236	209	21	44	5	2	1	11	4	2	17	45	.211	.276	.268	.544	56	3	2	8	0	2
Yukio Yaegashi	74	203	173	24	36	3	0	10	27	0	0	18	55	.208	.313	.399	.712	69	2	9	2	1	0
Yoshitaka Terada	67	69	62	5	15	4	0	1	9	1	0	6	19	.242	.319	.355	.674	22	0	1	0	0	0
Keiichi Shibui	32	79	64	6	14	1	0	1	5	2	0	6	18	.219	.306	.281	.587	18	1	2	7	0	0
Hiromu Matsuoka	50	57	53	4	9	2	0	1	3	0	0	2	12	.170	.200	.264	.464	14	0	0	2	0	0
Yasujiro Suzuki	37	64	51	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	17	.137	.241	.137	.379	7	0	0	6	0	0
Hajime Kugitani	9	29	27	1	6	1	0	1	4	0	0	1	6	.222	.276	.370	.646	10	0	1	0	0	0
Toshio Kanbe	25	48	39	3	6	0	0	1	3	0	0	5	15	.154	.250	.231	.481	9	0	0	4	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	43	46	40	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	20	.150	.171	.150	.321	6	0	0	5	0	0
Shinichiro Ihara	35	21	18	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.278	.316	.278	.594	5	0	0	2	0	0
Takao Ise	35	36	35	2	5	0	0	1	5	0	0	1	9	.143	.167	.229	.395	8	0	0	0	0	0
Minoru Aoki	68	42	36	8	5	0	0	0	1	3	2	3	14	.139	.205	.139	.344	5	1	0	3	0	0
Takehide Sato	16	32	29	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	9	.138	.194	.172	.366	5	0	0	1	0	0
Takahiro Yanagihara	23	32	30	4	4	0	0	2	4	0	0	1	16	.133	.188	.333	.521	10	0	1	0	0	0
Susumu Watanabe	17	41	40	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	12	.100	.122	.125	.247	5	1	0	0	0	0
Takao Obana	36	36	31	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	13	.065	.094	.065	.158	2	0	0	4	0	0
Teruo Aida	8	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Ramoto	10	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Yasuda	19	12	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	0	0	2	0	0
Keiichi Sakai	24	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Koji Torihara	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuo Nishii	43	8	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	1	1	0	0
Masanori Matsui	6	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinya Ashizawa	6	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Makoto Kurata	36	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1838	4845	4313	550	1085	159	9	157	531	63	39	369	804	.252	.316	.402	.718	1733	74	44	100	19	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	111					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	29					.000
Takao Ise	1B	3					.000
Dave Hilton	1B	3					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	1B	1					.000
Susumu Watanabe	1B	1					.000
Dave Hilton	2B	93					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	32					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	2B	16					.000
Fujio Sumi	2B	5					.000
Shinji Ramoto	2B	3					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	2B	2					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	1					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	64					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	41					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	3B	18					.000
Susumu Watanabe	3B	14					.000
Dave Hilton	3B	6					.000
Masanori Matsui	3B	3					.000
Shinji Ramoto	3B	2					.000
John Scott	3B	1					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	3B	1					.000
Takao Ise	3B	1					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	92					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	58					.000
Shinya Ashizawa	C	3					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	1					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	114					.000
John Scott	OF	110					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	106					.000
Kunio Fukutomi	OF	53					.000
Minoru Aoki	OF	32					.000
Takahiro Yanagihara	OF	16					.000
Hajime Kugitani	OF	9					.000
Yoshitaka Terada	OF	8					.000
Takehide Sato	OF	7					.000
Dave Hilton	OF	1					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	50					.000
Tetsuo Nishii	P	43					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	43					.000
Yasujiro Suzuki	P	37					.000
Takao Obana	P	36					.000
Makoto Kurata	P	36					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	35					.000
Toshio Kanbe	P	25					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	24					.000
Takeshi Yasuda	P	19					.000
Yukio Kurosaka	P	19					.000
Kunio Kobayashi	P	13					.000
Teruo Aida	P	8					.000
Koji Torihara	P	6					.000
Masaki Miura	P	4					.000
Sueki Harada	P	4					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	SS	78					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	SS	58					.000
Keiichi Shibui	SS	29					.000
Kazuhide Funada	SS	13					.000
Susumu Watanabe	SS	1					.000
Totals		1642	0	0	0	0	.000

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