The 1959 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1959 season. It was the tenth Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Nankai Hawks, against the Central League champions, the Yomiuri Giants.
1959 Japan Series | ||||||||||
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Dates | October 24–29 | |||||||||
MVP | Tadashi Sugiura (NAN) | |||||||||
FSA | Masataka Tsuchiya (YOM) | |||||||||
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Summary edit
PL Nankai Hawks (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (0)
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 24 | Yomiuri Giants – 7, Nankai Hawks – 10 | Osaka Stadium | 3:13 | 30,038[1] |
2 | October 25 | Yomiuri Giants – 3, Nankai Hawks – 6 | Osaka Stadium | 2:33 | 30,288[1] |
3 | October 27 | Nankai Hawks – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 2 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:47 | 32,056[1] |
4 | October 29 | Nankai Hawks – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 0 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:23 | 32,266[1] |
Matchups edit
Game 1 edit
Saturday, October 24, 1959 – 1:00 pm at Osaka Stadium in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nankai | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 10 | 19 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Tadashi Sugiura (1–0) LP: Taketoshi Yoshihara (0–1) Home runs: YOM: None NAN: Isami Okamoto 2 (2) |
Game 2 edit
Sunday, October 25, 1959 – 1:00 pm at Osaka Stadium in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Yomiuri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nankai | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Tadashi Sugiura (2–0) LP: Motoshi Fujita (0–1) Home runs: YOM: Shigeo Nagashima (1) NAN: None |
Game 3 edit
Tuesday, October 27, 1959 – 1:00 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Nankai | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Yomiuri | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Tadashi Sugiura (3–0) LP: Taketoshi Yoshihara (0–2) Home runs: NAN: Katsuya Nomura (1) YOM: Kazuhiko Sakazaki (1) |
Game 4 edit
Thursday, October 29, 1959 – 1:00 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Nankai | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Tadashi Sugiura (4–0) LP: Motoshi Fujita (0–2) |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d 1959年度日本シリーズ 試合結果 [1959 Japan Series Results] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved April 21, 2010.