1988 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-69
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Junzo Sekine (58-69)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1988 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1988 season with a record of 58 wins and 69 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Swallows plated 496 runs and surrendered 534 runs. Takahiro Ikeyama walloped 31 home runs for Yakult, while Doug DeCinces, Katsumi Hirosawa and Toru Sugiura each swatted 15 or more as well. Takahiro Ikeyama accounted for 81 RBI. Katsumi Hirosawa paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .288. Akimitsu Ito topped the team with 18 wins, and Takao Obana recorded a 2.87 ERA, tops among regular hurlers.

Members of the 1988 Yakult Swallows who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Doug DeCinces, Bob Gibson and Terry Harper.

Junzo Sekine 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
Akimitsu Ito	18	9	.667	3.15	55	0	48	0	0	17	122.7	120	46	43	10	25	3	72	4	0	4	509
Takao Obana	9	16	.360	2.87	31	31	0	10	3	0	232.0	242	81	74	17	42	5	125	1	0	2	949
Hikaru Takano	7	7	.500	3.41	21	13	0	7	1	0	116.0	104	45	44	7	56	3	76	2	1	6	495
Bob Gibson	7	11	.389	4.87	23	23	0	4	0	0	140.3	127	83	76	14	70	3	80	0	0	8	600
Kenji Miyamoto	5	5	.500	4.52	40	13	7	0	0	0	99.7	101	52	50	18	30	5	33	2	0	0	421
Shigeki Nakamoto	5	7	.417	3.60	42	20	6	2	0	0	147.7	141	64	59	9	47	5	43	2	0	5	616
Daisuke Araki	3	3	.500	4.37	12	8	1	3	0	0	55.7	50	31	27	13	9	1	21	2	0	2	231
Naoyuki Naito	2	1	.667	2.05	22	3	10	0	0	0	48.3	35	14	11	2	17	4	31	0	0	2	191
Kenichi Kajima	1	0	1.000	2.76	18	2	3	0	0	0	29.3	27	9	9	2	14	1	14	1	0	1	127
Kazuya Yano	1	7	.125	6.53	18	13	2	1	1	0	62.0	85	49	45	9	23	2	28	2	0	2	289
Yukihito Ranbashi	0	0		0.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Keiichi Sakai	0	0		2.86	34	0	6	0	0	0	50.3	51	21	16	3	22	3	22	2	0	2	214
Eijiro Ai	0	0		4.19	13	1	7	0	0	0	19.3	17	9	9	1	10	2	12	0	0	3	84
Koichi Nishizawa	0	0		4.70	5	0	2	0	0	0	7.7	8	5	4	2	3	0	3	0	0	0	33
Yoshikatsu Umezawa	0	0		8.10	5	0	4	0	0	0	6.7	9	6	6	2	3	0	4	0	0	0	31
Akira Okawa	0	1	.000	13.50	2	1	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	9
Tsuyoshi Nishioka	0	2	.000	7.08	12	2	4	0	0	0	20.3	24	16	16	6	10	0	20	1	0	4	91
Totals	58	69	.457	3.81	357	130	103	27	5	17	1163.3	1145	534	492	115	382	37	585	19	1	41	4901

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
Katsumi Hirosawa	130	544	496	71	143	26	0	30	80	13	7	43	111	.288	.344	.522	.867	259	12	1	1	3	2
Takahiro Ikeyama	130	554	504	72	128	21	2	31	81	12	8	31	120	.254	.304	.488	.792	246	8	7	8	4	0
Hideki Kuriyama	90	370	338	33	112	11	4	0	17	7	5	7	33	.331	.354	.388	.742	131	0	5	20	0	0
Toru Sugiura	122	477	416	52	106	20	0	20	53	0	0	56	51	.255	.342	.447	.789	186	11	1	0	4	11
Shinji Hata	122	388	354	33	89	17	3	7	29	3	1	27	52	.251	.308	.376	.684	133	8	2	5	0	8
Doug DeCinces	84	326	291	39	71	13	0	19	44	1	1	32	63	.244	.316	.485	.800	141	13	0	0	3	1
Yukio Arai	70	269	252	31	67	16	3	6	25	2	5	12	18	.266	.305	.425	.729	107	0	2	3	0	0
Junji Ogawa	103	229	207	28	60	16	1	8	24	2	1	15	51	.290	.338	.493	.831	102	0	1	4	2	0
Fujio Sumi	98	230	209	16	48	8	0	6	23	0	0	10	41	.230	.266	.354	.620	74	7	1	8	2	3
Shinichi Sakurai	67	188	163	20	41	8	0	5	12	2	0	6	23	.252	.285	.393	.678	64	4	2	16	1	1
Keiichi Shibui	108	223	189	25	39	6	1	2	8	1	2	11	47	.206	.266	.280	.546	53	2	5	16	2	3
Kazushige Nagashima	88	206	187	14	38	9	1	4	22	3	1	17	59	.203	.272	.326	.598	61	5	1	0	1	0
Yukio Yaegashi	53	102	92	7	24	5	0	2	11	0	0	9	17	.261	.324	.380	.704	35	2	0	0	1	3
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	73	75	66	1	23	2	1	1	18	0	0	7	1	.348	.400	.455	.855	30	2	0	0	2	3
Masahiko Goseki	56	101	94	11	22	2	0	4	7	1	0	5	18	.234	.273	.383	.656	36	1	0	2	0	0
Shintaro Mizutani	63	91	81	10	18	4	0	0	3	2	2	7	16	.222	.284	.272	.556	22	2	0	3	0	0
Terry Harper	10	41	35	5	5	1	0	2	6	0	0	5	6	.143	.268	.343	.611	12	1	1	0	0	0
Hikaru Takano	21	43	35	1	5	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	18	.143	.189	.143	.332	5	2	0	6	0	0
Kaoru Hirata	43	40	29	4	4	1	0	0	5	0	0	9	8	.138	.325	.172	.497	5	1	0	0	2	1
Bob Gibson	23	46	44	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	.091	.091	.091	.182	4	1	0	2	0	0
Naoyuki Naito	22	8	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.375	.375	.375	.750	3	0	0	0	0	0
Takayoshi Kiminami	5	17	16	2	3	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	.188	.235	.312	.548	5	0	0	0	0	1
Shigeki Nakamoto	44	45	35	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	18	.086	.158	.086	.244	3	1	0	7	0	0
Hideki Hashigami	35	18	16	9	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	.125	.176	.188	.364	3	0	1	1	0	0
Kenji Miyamoto	41	21	18	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.111	.111	.167	.278	3	0	0	3	0	0
Daisuke Araki	12	21	21	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.095	.095	.095	.190	2	0	0	0	0	0
Akimitsu Ito	55	29	26	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.077	.111	.077	.188	2	0	0	2	0	0
Takao Obana	31	79	70	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	31	.029	.042	.029	.071	2	1	1	8	0	0
Hideharu Takani	12	16	13	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.077	.200	.077	.277	1	0	0	1	0	0
Chikashi Nakanishi	15	15	15	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	1	0	0	0	0
Kazuya Yano	20	18	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.062	.118	.062	.180	1	0	0	1	0	0
Keiichi Sakai	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsuyoshi Nishioka	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	18	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Totals	1910	4837	4341	496	1069	190	16	147	477	52	34	319	877	.246	.301	.399	.700	1732	85	31	119	27	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Toru Sugiura	1B	79					.000
Doug DeCinces	1B	39					.000
Masahiko Goseki	1B	24					.000
Kaoru Hirata	1B	12					.000
Fujio Sumi	1B	5					.000
Takayoshi Kiminami	1B	5					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	104					.000
Shinichi Sakurai	2B	60					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	2B	42					.000
Fujio Sumi	2B	16					.000
Kaoru Hirata	2B	2					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	69					.000
Kazushige Nagashima	3B	60					.000
Doug DeCinces	3B	47					.000
Shinji Hata	C	119					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	36					.000
Chikashi Nakanishi	C	15					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	OF	130					.000
Junji Ogawa	OF	101					.000
Hideki Kuriyama	OF	87					.000
Yukio Arai	OF	63					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	44					.000
Hideki Hashigami	OF	21					.000
Masahiko Goseki	OF	14					.000
Terry Harper	OF	10					.000
Hideharu Takani	OF	5					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	4					.000
Akimitsu Ito	P	55					.000
Shigeki Nakamoto	P	42					.000
Kenji Miyamoto	P	40					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	34					.000
Takao Obana	P	31					.000
Bob Gibson	P	23					.000
Naoyuki Naito	P	22					.000
Hikaru Takano	P	21					.000
Kazuya Yano	P	18					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	18					.000
Eijiro Ai	P	13					.000
Tsuyoshi Nishioka	P	12					.000
Daisuke Araki	P	12					.000
Yoshikatsu Umezawa	P	5					.000
Koichi Nishizawa	P	5					.000
Yukihito Ranbashi	P	4					.000
Akira Okawa	P	2					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	SS	130					.000
Totals		1700	0	0	0	0	.000

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