1997 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 83-52
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Katsuya Nomura (83-52)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1997 Yakult Swallows Roster

Japan Series - Yakult Swallows 4 games, Seibu Lions 1

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1997 season with a record of 83 wins and 52 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Swallows paced the league with 672 runs. Yakult surrendered 503 runs, least in the league. Dwayne Hosey walloped 38 home runs for the team, while Takahiro Ikeyama and Atsunori Inaba added 15 or more also. Dwayne Hosey drove in 100 runs. Atsuya Furuta led all regular batters by hitting .322. Kazuya Tabata topped the team with 15 wins, and Kazuhisa Ishii registered a 1.92 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Jim Tatum, Masato Yoshii, Kazuhisa Ishii, Shingo Takatsu, Dwayne Hosey, Terry Bross and Luis Ortiz were all players from the 1997 Yakult Swallows who played in the Majors during their careers.

Katsuya Nomura 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
Kazuya Tabata	15	5	.750	2.96	26	25	0	5	3	0	170.3	160	58	56	15	43	1	83	4	0	1	696
Masato Yoshii	13	6	.684	2.99	28	26	1	6	2	0	174.3	149	61	58	15	48	6	104	6	0	4	702
Kazuhisa Ishii	10	4	.714	1.91	18	17	0	2	2	0	117.7	73	28	25	5	50	2	120	4	1	6	466
Tomohito Ito	7	2	.778	1.51	34	0	28	0	0	19	47.7	23	8	8	3	10	3	53	1	0	0	172
Shingo Takatsu	7	4	.636	2.04	51	3	21	0	0	7	79.3	55	20	18	9	20	4	68	5	0	0	313
Kenjiro Kawasaki	7	5	.583	4.19	22	19	0	4	1	0	116.0	118	61	54	20	46	2	48	3	0	8	496
Terry Bross	7	8	.467	4.99	23	21	0	0	0	0	115.3	129	73	64	16	56	0	89	0	1	5	524
Hiroto Kato	5	1	.833	1.99	60	0	13	0	0	6	45.3	31	13	10	1	21	5	39	3	0	0	188
Akimitsu Ito	3	1	.750	4.31	9	7	0	0	0	0	39.7	43	19	19	5	7	0	15	2	0	0	165
Tatsuki Yamamoto	3	6	.333	3.67	46	10	7	1	0	1	105.3	96	50	43	13	31	2	81	3	0	3	435
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	2	0	1.000	5.16	16	0	6	0	0	0	22.7	23	14	13	4	11	3	19	2	0	1	102
Tetsuhiro Nonaka	2	3	.400	2.28	44	0	11	0	0	0	55.3	42	16	14	6	25	5	47	3	1	2	230
Hiroaki Hirota	1	0	1.000	2.71	59	0	14	0	0	3	63.0	58	19	19	3	27	1	37	3	1	3	267
Yoichi Okabayashi	1	1	.500	4.88	12	4	1	0	0	0	31.3	41	19	17	6	6	2	14	2	1	0	143
Takeshi Sato	0	0		3.38	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	3	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	12
Daigo Matsuoka	0	0		5.00	9	0	1	0	0	0	9.0	14	6	5	1	3	0	2	0	0	1	42
Tsutomu Yamada	0	0		7.04	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.7	15	6	6	2	6	0	7	0	0	0	42
Hirotoshi Ishii	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	1	6	0	2	0	0	0	13
Tetsuya Kitagawa	0	0		9.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	11
Hisanori Iwasaki	0	1	.000	3.68	7	0	5	0	0	0	7.3	8	5	3	2	2	0	7	0	0	0	33
Fuminobu Kinoshita	0	1	.000	5.06	12	0	2	0	0	0	10.7	12	6	6	2	9	1	6	1	0	0	53
Futoshi Yamabe	0	2	.000	3.51	14	5	3	0	0	2	25.7	18	11	10	1	13	0	24	0	0	0	106
Masayuki Masuda	0	2	.000	10.38	4	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	7	5	5	3	1	0	2	1	0	0	22
Totals	83	52	.615	3.29	504	137	119	18	8	38	1254.7	1124	503	458	134	442	37	870	44	5	34	5233

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
Atsuya Furuta	137	598	509	74	164	32	2	9	86	9	4	69	64	.322	.413	.446	.859	227	11	13	3	4	4
Dwayne Hosey	137	576	498	101	144	32	3	38	100	20	9	61	107	.289	.371	.594	.965	296	7	7	4	6	4
Tetsuya Iida	108	464	421	62	129	15	7	3	37	26	10	23	43	.306	.349	.397	.745	167	4	6	11	3	1
Takahiro Ikeyama	124	505	439	65	121	26	3	18	79	11	1	49	76	.276	.350	.472	.821	207	21	6	2	9	7
Atsunori Inaba	130	494	439	71	117	24	4	21	65	9	6	37	67	.267	.333	.483	.816	212	6	7	10	1	4
Shinya Miyamoto	115	432	387	44	109	15	3	1	33	16	5	31	37	.282	.340	.344	.684	133	11	5	6	3	10
Katsuyuki Dobashi	101	405	355	45	107	22	0	8	61	4	3	25	39	.301	.346	.431	.777	153	8	2	18	5	0
Mitsuru Manaka	87	250	228	40	77	11	3	3	19	8	2	15	32	.338	.384	.452	.835	103	2	2	5	0	0
Takehiko Kobayakawa	116	359	309	37	77	13	0	12	33	0	2	45	72	.249	.351	.408	.759	126	8	4	0	1	2
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	85	308	279	33	73	10	1	2	18	6	2	17	37	.262	.315	.326	.641	91	12	5	6	1	1
Jim Tatum	51	159	139	27	43	7	0	13	25	4	1	16	28	.309	.390	.640	1.030	89	2	3	0	1	3
Toshifumi Baba	57	160	140	16	38	7	1	3	18	2	1	12	25	.271	.327	.400	.727	56	3	1	4	3	0
Shinji Hata	71	73	63	9	17	2	1	2	11	1	0	7	18	.270	.361	.429	.790	27	0	2	1	0	1
Masato Yoshii	35	67	56	4	10	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	17	.179	.179	.196	.375	11	3	0	11	0	0
Shinichi Sato	61	45	40	8	9	1	0	2	7	3	0	3	9	.225	.273	.400	.673	16	1	0	1	1	0
Susumu Aoyagi	28	28	27	4	8	3	0	0	5	0	0	1	10	.296	.321	.407	.729	11	1	0	0	0	0
Katsunori Nomura	26	33	31	1	8	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	10	.258	.303	.387	.690	12	3	0	0	0	0
Yuji Ono	35	39	38	2	8	2	0	0	4	0	2	1	11	.211	.231	.263	.494	10	2	0	0	0	0
Tomohiro Jo	30	28	22	2	7	1	0	0	0	2	2	5	2	.318	.444	.364	.808	8	0	0	1	0	0
Terry Bross	25	43	41	1	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	23	.171	.190	.171	.361	7	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuya Tabata	34	66	51	3	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	18	.137	.154	.137	.291	7	0	0	14	0	0
Luis Ortiz	20	31	29	3	5	1	1	0	7	0	0	2	7	.172	.226	.276	.502	8	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhisa Ishii	23	43	39	4	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	17	.128	.171	.205	.376	8	0	0	2	0	0
Toshihiro Noguchi	16	9	9	3	3	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	3	.333	.333	.556	.889	5	0	0	0	0	0
Kota Soejima	10	18	16	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	4	.188	.278	.312	.590	5	0	1	0	0	0
Kenjiro Kawasaki	30	38	32	2	3	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	18	.094	.121	.125	.246	4	0	0	5	0	0
Hiroki Nobayashi	17	17	13	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	5	.154	.312	.231	.543	3	1	0	1	0	0
Tatsuki Yamamoto	48	25	21	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	.095	.095	.095	.190	2	0	0	4	0	0
Kosei Ono	4	3	2	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	1	.500	.667	2.000	2.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
Yasutaka Hironaga	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Futoshi Yamabe	16	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shuichiro Matsumoto	11	9	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Akimitsu Ito	10	13	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.100	.182	.100	.282	1	0	0	2	0	0
Shingo Takatsu	52	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	16	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tomohito Ito	34	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Daigo Matsuoka	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoichi Okabayashi	13	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hajime Miki	19	7	7	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Hirota	59	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroto Kato	60	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuhiro Nonaka	44	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chikara Tsugawa	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2110	5390	4742	672	1309	230	30	138	639	123	50	433	844	.276	.342	.425	.767	2013	106	64	113	38	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takehiko Kobayakawa	1B	101					.000
Jim Tatum	1B	41					.000
Luis Ortiz	1B	14					.000
Atsunori Inaba	1B	9					.000
Kota Soejima	1B	5					.000
Katsunori Nomura	1B	4					.000
Susumu Aoyagi	1B	4					.000
Yuji Ono	1B	2					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	1B	1					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	1B	1					.000
Atsuya Furuta	1B	1					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	2B	74					.000
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	2B	73					.000
Toshifumi Baba	2B	26					.000
Hiroki Nobayashi	2B	6					.000
Jim Tatum	2B	3					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	3B	123					.000
Toshifumi Baba	3B	28					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	3B	6					.000
Hiroki Nobayashi	3B	5					.000
Luis Ortiz	3B	1					.000
Atsuya Furuta	C	137					.000
Katsunori Nomura	C	12					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	C	4					.000
Kosei Ono	C	2					.000
Susumu Aoyagi	C	1					.000
Dwayne Hosey	OF	137					.000
Atsunori Inaba	OF	127					.000
Tetsuya Iida	OF	105					.000
Mitsuru Manaka	OF	71					.000
Shinichi Sato	OF	53					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	OF	17					.000
Tomohiro Jo	OF	16					.000
Shinji Hata	OF	7					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	OF	3					.000
Chikara Tsugawa	OF	1					.000
Jim Tatum	OF	1					.000
Hiroto Kato	P	60					.000
Hiroaki Hirota	P	59					.000
Shingo Takatsu	P	51					.000
Tatsuki Yamamoto	P	46					.000
Tetsuhiro Nonaka	P	44					.000
Tomohito Ito	P	34					.000
Masato Yoshii	P	28					.000
Kazuya Tabata	P	26					.000
Terry Bross	P	23					.000
Kenjiro Kawasaki	P	22					.000
Kazuhisa Ishii	P	18					.000
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	P	16					.000
Futoshi Yamabe	P	14					.000
Yoichi Okabayashi	P	12					.000
Fuminobu Kinoshita	P	12					.000
Daigo Matsuoka	P	9					.000
Akimitsu Ito	P	9					.000
Hisanori Iwasaki	P	7					.000
Tsutomu Yamada	P	4					.000
Masayuki Masuda	P	4					.000
Takeshi Sato	P	3					.000
Tetsuya Kitagawa	P	2					.000
Hirotoshi Ishii	P	1					.000
Shinya Miyamoto	SS	115					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	SS	37					.000
Hajime Miki	SS	18					.000
Hiroki Nobayashi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1897	0	0	0	0	.000

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