1972 Lotte Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 59-68
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Keiji Ozawa (59-68)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Tokyo Stadium

1972 Lotte Orions Roster

The Lotte Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1972 season with a record of 59 wins and 68 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Orions scored 583 runs and allowed 621 runs, most in the circuit. Michiyo Arito led Lotte with 29 home runs, while George Altman, Hiroyuki Yamazaki and Takenori Ikebe each walloped 15 or more, too. George Altman drove in 90 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time with a .328 average. Osamu Nomura paced the team with 14 wins, and Masaaki Kitaru registered a 3.88 earned run average, best among regular hurlers.

George Altman and Frank Johnson both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Keiji Ozawa 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	WP	BF
Osamu Nomura	14	10	.583	4.13	47	26	11	7	2		220.3	216	107	101	34	49	3	97	12	1	914
Fumio Narita	11	14	.440	4.43	41	33	4	13	2		233.7	229	121	115	37	55	2	122	9	2	967
Masaaki Koyama	9	6	.600	4.08	28	19	6	7	2		152.3	167	74	69	21	26	3	57	8	0	639
Masaaki Kitaru	9	7	.562	3.88	37	11	22	2	0		123.0	117	56	53	19	28	2	78	5	1	504
Soroku Yagisawa	7	8	.467	4.48	35	7	9	1	0		90.3	106	50	45	14	20	2	33	6	0	395
Choji Murata	3	3	.500	6.46	16	5	6	0	0		46.0	56	34	33	10	22	0	30	3	3	213
Shigeo Kondo	2	3	.400	4.58	29	4	14	0	0		59.0	63	33	30	10	13	0	30	5	1	252
Akira Kuramochi	1	0	1.000	3.48	4	2	1	0	0		10.3	9	4	4	1	8	0	2	2	0	47
Haruo Narishige	1	3	.250	4.68	26	7	4	0	0		59.7	49	35	31	11	40	0	39	8	0	266
Yozo Ueda	1	3	.250	6.46	6	4	1	0	0		15.3	17	11	11	3	8	0	6	0	0	69
Kojiro Yokoyama	1	6	.143	5.58	42	6	15	0	0		92.0	100	61	57	16	26	7	34	3	2	396
Satoshi Miyawaki	0	0		3.60	3	0	1	0	0		5.0	4	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	19
Shigeki Ikeda	0	0		6.39	6	2	2	0	0		12.7	15	9	9	3	8	0	2	0	1	58
Kosuke Maeda	0	5	.000	5.67	19	4	4	0	0		33.3	49	24	21	5	23	1	11	1	1	163
Totals	59	68	.465	4.54	339	130	100	30	6	0	1153.0	1197	621	581	184	328	20	542	62	12	4902

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
Michiyo Arito	130	565	494	88	141	20	7	29	71	31	6	58	85	.285	.366	.530	.897	262	16	8	0	5	1
George Altman	112	449	384	46	126	27	1	21	90	4	1	55	29	.328	.410	.568	.978	218	4	3	0	7	19
Takenori Ikebe	121	501	459	69	123	22	0	21	70	11	8	29	69	.268	.318	.453	.771	208	16	7	1	5	1
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	123	499	442	54	107	22	1	16	58	4	9	52	76	.242	.322	.405	.727	179	7	1	2	2	1
Kazuo Hasegawa	100	311	296	39	91	13	0	9	33	9	2	10	24	.307	.330	.443	.773	131	6	1	2	2	0
Frank Johnson	101	340	298	31	69	8	0	13	39	2	8	34	60	.232	.311	.389	.700	116	7	2	2	4	0
Keisuke Senda	93	282	256	49	68	13	0	4	19	26	6	23	28	.266	.329	.363	.692	93	2	1	2	0	2
Takahiro Tokutsu	91	241	219	26	61	11	1	4	22	2	1	20	22	.279	.338	.393	.730	86	5	0	1	1	2
Sumio Hirota	71	197	187	29	53	9	3	1	16	18	6	7	17	.283	.311	.380	.691	71	1	1	1	1	0
Osamu Hirose	80	239	221	35	52	10	3	6	23	5	5	16	34	.235	.286	.389	.675	86	4	0	1	1	0
Kimiyasu Murakami	64	162	149	11	40	4	0	4	19	1	0	7	20	.268	.314	.376	.690	56	2	3	3	0	0
Shinichi Sakaki	51	140	130	17	39	6	0	3	12	3	0	5	7	.300	.326	.415	.741	54	3	1	2	2	0
Takeo Daigo	70	205	186	13	39	4	0	5	15	0	2	17	39	.210	.283	.312	.595	58	10	2	0	0	4
Masuho Maeda	82	181	159	19	38	6	0	6	18	2	3	15	19	.239	.307	.390	.697	62	4	1	5	1	0
Kenji Doi	44	51	47	6	17	2	0	1	5	0	0	3	3	.362	.412	.468	.880	22	0	1	0	0	0
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	57	57	53	10	15	1	0	0	7	0	2	4	5	.283	.333	.302	.635	16	1	0	0	0	0
Osamu Nomura	47	77	69	4	15	2	0	0	6	0	0	3	26	.217	.250	.246	.496	17	2	0	5	0	0
Fumio Narita	41	80	71	6	15	2	0	2	11	1	0	4	20	.211	.263	.324	.587	23	0	1	4	0	0
Takayuki Nishida	45	61	55	14	12	1	1	0	2	8	1	6	9	.218	.295	.273	.568	15	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Kitaru	37	40	32	3	8	2	0	0	3	0	0	4	6	.250	.351	.312	.664	10	0	1	3	0	0
Masao Yamada	19	18	17	3	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.412	.444	.471	.915	8	0	1	0	0	0
Nobuyuki Fujii	18	38	35	5	7	2	0	2	4	0	0	3	11	.200	.263	.429	.692	15	1	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Koyama	28	53	51	1	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	14	.137	.170	.137	.307	7	2	0	0	0	0
Choji Murata	16	14	13	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	1	0	0
Fukuo Toiya	18	19	19	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	.158	.158	.316	.474	6	1	0	0	0	0
Soroku Yagisawa	35	24	22	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.136	.136	.182	.318	4	0	0	2	0	0
Shigeo Kondo	30	9	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.286	.375	.429	.804	3	1	0	1	0	0
Haruo Narishige	26	13	11	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	2	0	0
Shigeki Ikeda	6	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kosuke Maeda	19	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.400	.733	2	1	0	0	0	0
Kojiro Yokoyama	42	14	12	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	0	0	2	0	0
Masanori Arai	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yozo Ueda	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiaki Toyama	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Otsuka	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Kuramochi	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Satoru Yoshioka	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1839	4902	4414	583	1166	191	17	148	553	127	60	380	654	.264	.325	.416	.741	1835	96	35	42	31	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
George Altman	1B	63					.000
Masuho Maeda	1B	60					.000
Frank Johnson	1B	35					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	1B	8					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	123					.000
Sumio Hirota	2B	7					.000
Osamu Hirose	2B	6					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	2B	1					.000
Keisuke Senda	2B	1					.000
Frank Johnson	2B	1					.000
Michiyo Arito	3B	130					.000
Sumio Hirota	3B	1					.000
Takeo Daigo	C	68					.000
Kimiyasu Murakami	C	59					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	C	49					.000
Takenori Ikebe	OF	118					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	OF	75					.000
Takahiro Tokutsu	OF	62					.000
Frank Johnson	OF	58					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	OF	51					.000
George Altman	OF	47					.000
Takayuki Nishida	OF	38					.000
Sumio Hirota	OF	38					.000
Susumu Satomi	OF	22					.000
Nobuyuki Fujii	OF	12					.000
Kenji Doi	OF	5					.000
Masao Yamada	OF	3					.000
Fukuo Toiya	OF	3					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	OF	1					.000
Yasuo Otsuka	OF	1					.000
Shigeo Kondo	OF	1					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	47					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	P	42					.000
Fumio Narita	P	41					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	P	37					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	P	35					.000
Shigeo Kondo	P	29					.000
Masaaki Koyama	P	28					.000
Haruo Narishige	P	26					.000
Kosuke Maeda	P	19					.000
Choji Murata	P	16					.000
Yozo Ueda	P	6					.000
Shigeki Ikeda	P	6					.000
Akira Kuramochi	P	4					.000
Satoshi Miyawaki	P	3					.000
Keisuke Senda	SS	77					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	71					.000
Sumio Hirota	SS	10					.000
Masanori Arai	SS	1					.000
Totals		1645	0	0	0	0	.000

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