1953 Mainichi Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 56-62
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Tadashi Wakabayashi (56-62)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

1953 Mainichi Orions Roster

The Mainichi Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1953 season with a record of 56 wins and 62 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Orions scored 455 runs and gave up 459 runs. Takuzo Miyake paced Mainichi with 14 home runs and drove in 63 runs, while leading all regular batters by hitting .273. Atsushi Aramaki topped the team with 17 wins and a team-best 2.14 earned run average, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Leo Kiely played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Mainichi Orions to do so.

Tadashi Wakabayashi 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
Atsushi Aramaki	17	14	.548	2.14	50	16	27	8	1		248.0	198	75	59	8	49		122	1	0	5	962
Yoshimi Ebara	13	8	.619	2.82	35	25	5	7	4		163.0	149	62	51	8	52		125	2	1	4	671
Kazuo Miyazaki	7	4	.636	2.79	32	5	16	0	0		106.3	90	37	33	6	29		45	3	0	1	426
Leo Kiely	6	0	1.000	1.80	6	5	1	3	1		45.0	36	14	9	2	15		32	6	0	0	183
Isao Wada	5	4	.556	3.43	20	14	2	3	0		89.3	84	44	34	4	38		59	0	0	2	378
Takeshi Nomura	3	9	.250	3.32	30	16	8	2	0		122.0	140	55	45	6	23		35	1	0	0	505
Hirokazu Shimizu	1	2	.333	3.32	23	3	11	1	1		65.0	61	28	24	2	29		25	1	0	0	279
Toshinobu Sueyoshi	1	4	.200	5.79	11	8	1	2	0		46.7	54	32	30	3	28		13	3	0	1	214
Isamu Wada	1	5	.167	3.86	15	9	4	0	0		51.3	53	30	22	3	18		25	0	2	1	224
Yoshinobu Uemura	1	5	.167	4.46	9	8	0	0	0		34.3	30	18	17	2	22		27	0	1	0	154
Toshihide Yamane	1	6	.143	3.44	22	9	10	1	0		68.0	73	36	26	4	24		23	2	0	2	290
Sadao Inagaki	0	0		2.25	3	0	2	0	0		8.0	7	2	2	1	0		3	0	1	0	31
Yoshihiko Taki	0	0		4.50	3	0	2	0	0		8.0	11	4	4	2	3		7	0	0	0	37
Shigeo Ueno	0	0		4.66	3	1	2	0	0		9.7	13	5	5	0	4		3	0	0	0	43
Susumu Aizawa	0	0		10.12	3	0	2	0	0		5.3	8	8	6	2	5		2	0	0	0	30
Tadashi Wakabayashi	0	1	.000	10.80	2	1	0	0	0		6.7	15	9	8	0	2		1	0	0	0	35
Totals	56	62	.475	3.13	267	120	93	27	7	0	1076.7	1022	459	375	53	341	0	547	19	5	16	4462

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
Takuzo Miyake	113	417	377	55	103	17	1	14	63	32	10	39	22	.273	.341	.435	.776	164	17	0	1
Yasuya Hondo	101	393	356	42	94	22	3	6	39	8	6	27	19	.264	.321	.393	.715	140	6	3	7
Kaoru Betto	82	312	279	38	85	16	4	11	48	14	9	33	18	.305	.378	.509	.887	142	11	0	0
Takeshi Doigaki	92	334	314	19	83	14	1	6	43	0	5	16	21	.264	.302	.373	.675	117	4	1	3
Hiroshi Arakawa	99	283	251	33	79	9	6	1	20	8	4	26	11	.315	.381	.410	.792	103	4	1	5
Takayuki Kuriki	90	281	259	31	71	8	6	3	11	13	13	10	36	.274	.314	.386	.700	100	2	5	7
Shoji Kitamura	111	348	290	26	70	2	1	1	23	1	3	26	26	.241	.304	.266	.569	77	8	0	32
Shosei Go	101	296	250	47	68	5	3	0	14	8	5	43	27	.272	.379	.316	.695	79	1	0	3
Yukio Nishimoto	94	225	193	33	58	6	2	0	20	5	4	24	5	.301	.386	.352	.739	68	5	3	5
Kazuhiro Yamauchi	72	247	213	36	52	8	4	7	24	9	3	31	40	.244	.343	.418	.761	89	4	1	2
Takuji Kouchi	70	214	184	17	45	8	2	0	15	5	2	20	14	.245	.319	.310	.628	57	4	0	10
Tsuneyuki Shimada	81	192	181	14	33	4	2	0	14	0	3	8	30	.182	.217	.227	.443	41	4	0	3
Charlie Hood	25	103	93	14	23	3	1	5	26	4	2	10	9	.247	.320	.462	.783	43	1	0	0
Zenzo Hasegawa	65	119	107	7	22	5	0	0	5	0	4	5	9	.206	.248	.252	.500	27	1	1	6
Atsushi Aramaki	51	95	87	7	21	5	1	0	9	1	0	4	9	.241	.275	.322	.597	28	0	0	4
Isao Odate	51	85	72	3	16	2	0	1	5	0	0	12	21	.222	.341	.292	.633	21	1	1	0
Koichiro Numazawa	38	69	61	5	14	2	0	0	3	1	3	6	3	.230	.309	.262	.571	16	0	1	1
Hirokuni Kataoka	51	90	81	3	13	0	1	0	9	0	0	8	16	.160	.236	.185	.421	15	3	0	1
Sadao Inagaki	22	53	51	1	11	3	1	0	5	1	0	1	3	.216	.231	.314	.544	16	2	0	1
Leo Kiely	7	20	19	4	10	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	3	.526	.550	.632	1.182	12	0	0	0
Takeshi Nomura	30	38	33	2	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	5	6	.242	.342	.303	.645	10	2	0	0
Yoshimi Ebara	35	56	51	2	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	7	.137	.154	.137	.291	7	0	0	4
Yoshihide Sakata	15	32	28	3	5	1	1	0	1	1	1	3	5	.179	.258	.286	.544	8	0	0	1
Shigejiro Kanbayashi	7	7	7	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.429	.429	.429	.857	3	0	0	0
Hirokazu Shimizu	23	20	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.176	.222	.176	.399	3	2	0	2
Shoshichi Ito	13	23	21	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	5	.143	.217	.143	.360	3	0	0	0
Isao Wada	21	31	23	4	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	3	.130	.231	.130	.361	3	0	0	5
Koji Nishiwaki	11	13	11	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	.182	.308	.182	.490	2	0	0	0
Isamu Wada	15	19	15	2	2	1	0	1	4	0	0	1	3	.133	.188	.400	.588	6	1	0	3
Toshinobu Sueyoshi	13	16	16	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.188	.312	3	0	0	0
Toshihide Yamane	32	20	18	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.111	.158	.111	.269	2	1	0	1
Shigeo Ueno	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0
Toshiaki Yamada	6	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0
Chikara Hashimoto	12	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	.077	.143	.077	.220	1	0	0	0
Kazuo Miyazaki	32	35	30	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	4	.033	.171	.033	.205	1	0	0	0
Yoshinobu Uemura	9	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	1	0	0
Yoshihiko Taki	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Wakabayashi	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Susumu Aizawa	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Akira Hagiwara	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Hyodo	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Totals	1706	4529	4028	455	1015	146	40	56	414	114	79	377	393	.252	.319	.350	.668	1409	85	17	107	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yukio Nishimoto	1B	76					.000
Takuzo Miyake	1B	63					.000
Isao Odate	1B	17					.000
Kaoru Betto	1B	11					.000
Tadashi Hyodo	1B	4					.000
Toshihide Yamane	1B	1					.000
Yasuya Hondo	2B	100					.000
Shoji Kitamura	2B	19					.000
Tsuneyuki Shimada	2B	18					.000
Zenzo Hasegawa	2B	5					.000
Toshinobu Sueyoshi	2B	2					.000
Koji Nishiwaki	2B	2					.000
Takuji Kouchi	3B	68					.000
Shoji Kitamura	3B	42					.000
Tsuneyuki Shimada	3B	16					.000
Sadao Inagaki	3B	16					.000
Charlie Hood	3B	13					.000
Koji Nishiwaki	3B	8					.000
Chikara Hashimoto	3B	5					.000
Toshihide Yamane	3B	1					.000
Yasuya Hondo	3B	1					.000
Akira Hagiwara	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Doigaki	C	86					.000
Hirokuni Kataoka	C	22					.000
Koichiro Numazawa	C	20					.000
Yoshihide Sakata	C	13					.000
Shigejiro Kanbayashi	C	5					.000
Charlie Hood	C	2					.000
Shosei Go	OF	86					.000
Hiroshi Arakawa	OF	78					.000
Takayuki Kuriki	OF	76					.000
Kaoru Betto	OF	70					.000
Kazuhiro Yamauchi	OF	65					.000
Takuzo Miyake	OF	55					.000
Charlie Hood	OF	12					.000
Shoshichi Ito	OF	8					.000
Toshiaki Yamada	OF	3					.000
Chikara Hashimoto	OF	3					.000
Koichiro Numazawa	OF	2					.000
Hirokuni Kataoka	OF	1					.000
Sadao Inagaki	OF	1					.000
Atsushi Aramaki	P	50					.000
Yoshimi Ebara	P	35					.000
Kazuo Miyazaki	P	32					.000
Takeshi Nomura	P	30					.000
Hirokazu Shimizu	P	23					.000
Toshihide Yamane	P	22					.000
Isao Wada	P	20					.000
Isamu Wada	P	15					.000
Toshinobu Sueyoshi	P	11					.000
Yoshinobu Uemura	P	9					.000
Leo Kiely	P	6					.000
Shigeo Ueno	P	3					.000
Yoshihiko Taki	P	3					.000
Sadao Inagaki	P	3					.000
Susumu Aizawa	P	3					.000
Tadashi Wakabayashi	P	2					.000
Shoji Kitamura	SS	60					.000
Zenzo Hasegawa	SS	56					.000
Tsuneyuki Shimada	SS	46					.000
Takuji Kouchi	SS	3					.000
Charlie Hood	SS	2					.000
Koji Nishiwaki	SS	1					.000
Totals		1532	0	0	0	0	.000

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