1953 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-57
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Michinori Tsubochi (70-57)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1953 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1953 season with a record of 70 wins and 57 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 524 runs and conceded 508 runs. Michio Nishizawa led Chunichi with 22 home runs, while Satoru Sugiyama walloped 15 or more also. Michio Nishizawa accounted for 81 RBI and topped all regular hitters by hitting .325. Shigeru Sugishita notched 23 wins on the mound for the squad, and Katsuhiko Ishikawa added 15 or more victories as well Katsuhiko Ishikawa earned a 2.32 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances. Michinori Tsubochi 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
Shigeru Sugishita	23	9	.719	2.84	45	27	15	13	1		266.7	230	98	84	16	91		156	9	0	4	1114
Katsuhiko Ishikawa	18	4	.818	2.31	38	24	11	12	2		198.3	169	65	51	5	59		88	5	0	3	807
Nobuo Oshima	12	9	.571	3.84	37	15	12	4	1		159.3	174	78	68	8	44		48	2	1	1	686
Kikuo Tokunaga	9	10	.474	2.62	48	17	16	5	2		189.0	166	74	55	8	45		36	7	0	0	775
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi	6	9	.400	3.47	31	21	6	6	4		135.0	114	66	52	5	75		62	4	2	1	590
Shiro Ito	1	1	.500	2.76	7	1	3	0	0		16.3	13	6	5	3	6		5	0	0	1	63
Tsutomu Ina	1	4	.200	3.64	12	7	3	1	0		47.0	34	24	19	3	33		16	1	0	2	208
Katsumi Ishibachi	0	0		4.50	1	0	0	0	0		2.0	1	1	1	0	3		3	0	0	0	10
Shigeki Ukisu	0	0		6.23	3	0	1	0	0		4.3	5	3	3	0	1		2	0	0	1	19
Nobuaki Miyashita	0	1	.000	5.27	8	3	2	0	0		13.7	15	12	8	4	10		2	1	0	0	66
Takehiko Wada	0	1	.000	7.20	3	0	1	0	0		5.0	5	4	4	0	1		3	0	0	0	20
Mitsuhisa Fujino	0	1	.000	7.71	11	1	6	0	0		18.7	24	17	16	0	7		9	0	0	1	89
Sadao Kondo	0	2	.000	4.23	15	3	6	0	0		44.7	48	23	21	3	16		11	1	0	0	189
Tsuguhiro Hattori	0	3	.000	4.06	8	6	1	0	0		31.0	31	19	14	1	10		6	1	0	0	134
Tsuneo Mitomi	0	3	.000	5.61	13	5	6	0	0		25.7	28	18	16	2	14		8	1	0	0	113
Totals	70	57	.551	3.24	280	130	89	41	10	0	1156.7	1057	508	417	58	415	0	455	32	3	14	4883

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
Michio Nishizawa	119	486	446	76	145	24	4	22	81	8	2	38	41	.325	.381	.545	.926	243	15	2	0
Satoru Sugiyama	104	418	378	54	107	20	3	16	70	13	7	38	45	.283	.352	.479	.831	181	6	2	0
Riichi Kodama	106	404	347	36	105	24	2	5	58	6	4	51	32	.303	.397	.427	.823	148	5	3	3
Tokuzo Harada	130	522	447	75	102	19	6	4	32	14	3	52	34	.228	.310	.324	.634	145	7	1	22
Shigeru Makino	118	441	395	46	95	18	3	4	35	21	6	32	33	.241	.297	.332	.629	131	8	0	14
Toshimichi Kunieda	109	396	354	39	92	12	3	1	26	27	10	31	28	.260	.319	.319	.639	113	4	0	11
Itsuro Honda	112	378	349	42	85	9	1	3	18	15	5	21	43	.244	.288	.301	.589	105	1	1	7
Akira Noguchi	90	284	260	25	70	10	1	2	38	0	0	23	15	.269	.329	.338	.667	88	4	0	1
Kansuke Onishi	71	167	157	13	38	5	1	2	17	1	3	5	16	.242	.265	.325	.590	51	8	0	5
Susumu Kato	75	199	173	16	38	3	0	1	17	2	4	21	23	.220	.304	.254	.558	44	6	0	5
Teiichi Kinoshita	66	156	139	15	37	7	3	1	19	3	1	14	15	.266	.346	.381	.727	53	4	3	0
Toru Tsuchiya	92	206	186	13	36	8	2	1	17	0	3	14	24	.194	.254	.274	.528	51	6	1	5
Shigeru Sugishita	48	108	96	17	22	7	1	0	18	0	0	10	8	.229	.302	.323	.625	31	5	0	2
Nobuo Oshima	42	68	54	7	13	0	0	0	4	1	0	7	6	.241	.339	.241	.579	13	0	1	6
Mitsuhisa Fujino	48	56	51	7	12	2	0	1	4	0	0	4	8	.235	.291	.333	.624	17	2	0	1
Katsuhiko Ishikawa	38	68	64	4	11	2	0	1	2	0	0	2	15	.172	.197	.250	.447	16	1	0	2
Shigemitsu Ozawa	36	52	47	9	10	2	0	2	6	0	0	3	6	.213	.260	.383	.643	18	0	0	2
Kikuo Tokunaga	49	64	52	1	10	2	0	0	3	0	0	4	12	.192	.263	.231	.494	12	1	1	7
Zenpei Yamazaki	78	91	73	15	10	3	0	0	2	11	5	11	11	.137	.250	.178	.428	13	1	0	7
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi	31	46	40	2	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.225	.244	.250	.494	10	0	0	5
Tsuguhiro Hattori	55	61	54	4	9	0	0	0	4	2	0	7	10	.167	.262	.167	.429	9	1	0	0
Yasuhiko Kawai	33	45	38	1	6	1	1	0	3	1	0	6	14	.158	.273	.237	.510	9	0	0	1
Sadao Kondo	23	18	18	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	4	0	0	0
Noboru Inoue	9	20	20	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.150	.150	.150	.300	3	1	0	0
Takehiko Wada	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0
Nobuaki Miyashita	10	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0
Shiro Ito	7	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0
Akiro Kato	5	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Ina	12	13	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1
Shinji Hayakawa	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tsuneo Mitomi	13	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals	1733	4788	4271	524	1072	179	31	66	479	125	53	395	456	.251	.317	.354	.670	1511	86	15	107	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Michio Nishizawa	1B	114					.000
Teiichi Kinoshita	1B	14					.000
Mitsuhisa Fujino	1B	10					.000
Riichi Kodama	1B	3					.000
Akiro Kato	1B	2					.000
Tsuguhiro Hattori	1B	2					.000
Toshimichi Kunieda	2B	107					.000
Toru Tsuchiya	2B	18					.000
Shigemitsu Ozawa	2B	14					.000
Teiichi Kinoshita	2B	10					.000
Noboru Inoue	2B	7					.000
Riichi Kodama	3B	101					.000
Toru Tsuchiya	3B	54					.000
Shigemitsu Ozawa	3B	5					.000
Noboru Inoue	3B	2					.000
Kazuyuki Niwa	3B	1					.000
Toshimichi Kunieda	3B	1					.000
Akira Noguchi	C	76					.000
Susumu Kato	C	63					.000
Yasuhiko Kawai	C	31					.000
Mitsuhisa Fujino	C	6					.000
Tokuzo Harada	OF	129					.000
Itsuro Honda	OF	110					.000
Satoru Sugiyama	OF	99					.000
Kansuke Onishi	OF	65					.000
Zenpei Yamazaki	OF	62					.000
Teiichi Kinoshita	OF	15					.000
Toshimichi Kunieda	OF	2					.000
Hiroshi Kimura	OF	1					.000
Susumu Kato	OF	1					.000
Noboru Inoue	OF	1					.000
Toshiro Ashiki	OF	1					.000
Kikuo Tokunaga	P	48					.000
Shigeru Sugishita	P	45					.000
Katsuhiko Ishikawa	P	38					.000
Nobuo Oshima	P	37					.000
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi	P	31					.000
Sadao Kondo	P	15					.000
Tsuneo Mitomi	P	13					.000
Tsutomu Ina	P	12					.000
Mitsuhisa Fujino	P	11					.000
Nobuaki Miyashita	P	8					.000
Tsuguhiro Hattori	P	8					.000
Shiro Ito	P	7					.000
Takehiko Wada	P	3					.000
Shigeki Ukisu	P	3					.000
Katsumi Ishibachi	P	1					.000
Shigeru Makino	SS	116					.000
Toru Tsuchiya	SS	13					.000
Shigemitsu Ozawa	SS	11					.000
Mokuo Sakamoto	SS	1					.000
Totals		1548	0	0	0	0	.000

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