1970 Nishitetsu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 43-78
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuhisa Inao (43-78)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Ballpark: Heiwadai Stadium

1970 Nishitetsu Lions Roster

The Nishitetsu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1970 season with a record of 43 wins and 78 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Lions plated 417 runs, worst in the circuit, and yielded 576 runs. Carl Boles paced Nishitetsu with 28 home runs, while Aaron Pointer, Mitsuo Motoi and Masashi Takenouchi each walloped 15 or more, too. Aaron Pointer drove in 67 runs and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .260. Akira Kawahara led the squad with 13 wins, and Satoru Miwa recorded a 2.92 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Aaron Pointer and Carl Boles both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Kazuhisa Inao 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
Akira Kawahara	13	19	.406	4.17	51	28	12	12	3		237.3	210	123	110	24	92	5	174	20	0	2	1020
Osamu Higashio	11	18	.379	5.14	40	31	5	3	0		173.3	183	107	99	22	90	2	94	7	0	4	786
Satoru Miwa	7	14	.333	2.91	45	30	7	5	2		225.7	207	80	73	22	87	4	87	9	0	4	938
Masaaki Ikenaga	4	3	.571	2.58	9	5	4	3	1		52.3	38	17	15	4	13	4	29	2	0	0	204
Etsuo Nakai	3	0	1.000	3.26	42	1	17	0	0		85.7	79	35	31	8	33	0	64	3	0	1	362
Yutaka Yanagida	3	6	.333	4.41	20	6	5	1	0		65.3	58	36	32	10	17	0	37	5	1	0	274
Akira Izumisawa	1	2	.333	2.74	18	5	5	0	0		46.0	37	14	14	4	21	0	27	3	0	0	191
Kiyoshi Goto	1	5	.167	3.60	38	5	15	0	0		95.0	82	38	38	11	44	1	37	2	0	1	393
Eisuke Fukunaga	0	0		4.50	2	0	2	0	0		2.0	4	1	1	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	12
Goji Hisano	0	0		5.62	11	0	6	0	0		16.0	20	12	10	2	5	0	2	0	0	0	70
Hideki Yamamoto	0	0		7.50	3	0	2	0	0		6.0	9	5	5	1	3	0	1	1	0	0	30
Terufumi Uchida	0	0		9.00	3	0	1	0	0		4.0	7	5	4	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	20
Isamu Ito	0	0		9.22	10	1	3	0	0		13.7	20	14	14	2	9	1	3	0	1	0	69
Kunimitsu Sato	0	0		18.00	2	0	1	0	0		2.0	3	4	4	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	10
Yoshinori Okamura	0	0		135.00	2	0	0	0	0		0.3	4	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Akio Masuda	0	1	.000	3.14	3	3	0	0	0		14.3	10	6	5	4	3	0	5	0	0	0	55
Tetsumi Furuya	0	1	.000	4.70	8	0	3	0	0		15.3	18	8	8	3	7	0	7	0	0	0	69
Yoshinobu Yoda	0	1	.000	9.00	3	1	1	0	0		7.0	7	7	7	1	4	1	6	0	0	1	34
Keizo Akiba	0	3	.000	4.35	22	4	11	0	0		39.3	45	22	19	6	14	0	20	1	0	0	175
Toshiyoshi Norikae	0	5	.000	5.92	32	10	5	1	0		48.7	54	37	32	12	28	1	36	5	0	0	231
Totals	43	78	.355	4.12	364	130	105	25	6	0	1149.3	1095	576	526	139	477	19	633	58	2	14	4949

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
Aaron Pointer	126	515	469	56	122	17	0	22	67	16	8	39	89	.260	.318	.437	.755	205	8	2	3	2	1
Masayoshi Higashida	124	494	450	43	105	17	2	13	48	6	2	36	75	.233	.294	.367	.661	165	12	4	1	3	0
Carl Boles	119	441	402	48	102	11	1	28	59	4	2	30	36	.254	.311	.495	.806	199	5	5	0	4	6
Mitsuo Motoi	111	469	393	59	100	15	0	21	43	15	9	57	62	.254	.353	.453	.806	178	8	3	16	0	1
Masashi Takenouchi	117	409	373	44	86	14	0	19	40	5	4	18	56	.231	.293	.421	.714	157	6	15	3	0	0
Katsutoshi Miyadera	120	363	326	26	73	10	2	7	24	2	4	27	82	.224	.285	.331	.616	108	7	1	8	1	7
Shojiro Kikukawa	94	291	259	27	63	8	0	2	12	5	6	24	40	.243	.309	.297	.606	77	1	2	3	3	0
Takashi Hamamura	89	206	190	13	44	7	1	1	3	5	4	10	33	.232	.270	.295	.565	56	1	0	6	0	0
Isao Hirono	95	237	218	17	41	6	1	9	26	1	1	16	46	.188	.253	.349	.602	76	3	3	0	0	1
Yoshio Abe	85	193	186	15	36	2	1	2	11	3	5	2	23	.194	.214	.247	.461	46	3	3	1	1	0
Takashi Takagi	91	165	144	11	34	6	0	2	8	1	0	18	17	.236	.329	.319	.649	46	2	2	1	0	3
Shonan Hashino	70	69	63	4	21	0	0	0	12	0	0	3	7	.333	.348	.333	.681	21	2	0	0	3	0
Shoichi Shimosusaki	74	89	82	9	20	0	0	4	14	1	0	4	14	.244	.276	.390	.666	32	1	0	2	1	0
Kazuhide Funada	18	79	70	13	18	1	0	1	5	6	2	4	6	.257	.312	.314	.626	22	1	2	2	1	0
Kimiyasu Murakami	16	50	46	6	12	2	1	2	5	0	1	3	7	.261	.320	.478	.798	22	2	1	0	0	0
Takuji Ota	23	53	49	5	12	3	0	1	2	0	1	2	10	.245	.269	.367	.637	18	0	0	1	1	0
Kazuo Kai	44	91	85	6	12	4	0	2	6	2	1	3	21	.141	.189	.259	.448	22	1	2	1	0	0
Akira Kawahara	51	76	73	1	10	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	27	.137	.149	.137	.286	10	0	0	2	0	0
Hiromi Wada	43	43	42	1	9	0	0	0	5	2	3	1	7	.214	.233	.214	.447	9	1	0	0	0	0
Osamu Higashio	45	55	49	2	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	10	.184	.184	.204	.388	10	0	0	6	0	0
Koshiro Ito	58	62	54	2	9	2	0	1	4	1	0	6	9	.167	.242	.259	.501	14	2	0	0	2	0
Satoru Miwa	45	68	60	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	24	.083	.127	.083	.210	5	1	0	5	0	0
Akira Kurata	32	25	22	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	.182	.217	.182	.399	4	1	1	2	0	0
Toshiyoshi Norikae	32	9	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	2	0	0
Yasutoshi Ono	22	19	18	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	.111	.158	.111	.269	2	0	1	0	0	0
Yasuhiro Aratake	20	28	26	0	2	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	6	.077	.143	.154	.297	4	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Takahashi	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yutaka Yanagida	21	16	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.062	.062	.062	.125	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Ikenaga	9	20	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.062	.167	.062	.229	1	1	0	2	0	0
Etsuo Nakai	42	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Keizo Akiba	22	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsumi Furuya	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kiyoshi Goto	39	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Seiichi Hirai	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Isamu Ito	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Izumisawa	18	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ippei Kasuga	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuichi Kawano	27	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Akio Masuda	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshinobu Yoda	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1986	4703	4253	417	956	129	9	137	404	77	54	311	749	.225	.284	.356	.640	1514	69	47	70	22	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Isao Hirono	1B	74					.000
Takashi Takagi	1B	63					.000
Carl Boles	1B	34					.000
Yasuhiro Aratake	1B	18					.000
Aaron Pointer	1B	14					.000
Osamu Higashio	1B	4					.000
Yasutoshi Ono	1B	3					.000
Yoshinobu Yoda	1B	1					.000
Yutaka Yanagida	1B	1					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	1B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Goto	1B	1					.000
Eisuke Fukunaga	1B	1					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	2B	109					.000
Akira Kurata	2B	23					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	2B	21					.000
Seiichi Hirai	2B	3					.000
Masashi Takenouchi	3B	108					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	3B	24					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	18					.000
Yoshio Abe	3B	5					.000
Takashi Hamamura	3B	4					.000
Seiichi Hirai	3B	3					.000
Katsutoshi Miyadera	C	119					.000
Yuichi Kawano	C	26					.000
Kimiyasu Murakami	C	15					.000
Ippei Kasuga	C	8					.000
Hiromi Wada	C	1					.000
Aaron Pointer	OF	121					.000
Masayoshi Higashida	OF	118					.000
Carl Boles	OF	95					.000
Yoshio Abe	OF	62					.000
Shoichi Shimosusaki	OF	49					.000
Takuji Ota	OF	15					.000
Masashi Takenouchi	OF	5					.000
Akira Takahashi	OF	2					.000
Koshiro Ito	OF	2					.000
Osamu Higashio	OF	1					.000
Akira Kawahara	P	51					.000
Satoru Miwa	P	45					.000
Etsuo Nakai	P	42					.000
Osamu Higashio	P	40					.000
Kiyoshi Goto	P	38					.000
Toshiyoshi Norikae	P	32					.000
Keizo Akiba	P	22					.000
Yutaka Yanagida	P	20					.000
Akira Izumisawa	P	18					.000
Goji Hisano	P	11					.000
Isamu Ito	P	10					.000
Masaaki Ikenaga	P	9					.000
Tetsumi Furuya	P	8					.000
Yoshinobu Yoda	P	3					.000
Hideki Yamamoto	P	3					.000
Terufumi Uchida	P	3					.000
Akio Masuda	P	3					.000
Kunimitsu Sato	P	2					.000
Yoshinori Okamura	P	2					.000
Eisuke Fukunaga	P	2					.000
Takashi Hamamura	SS	79					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	SS	67					.000
Kazuo Kai	SS	41					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	SS	3					.000
Seiichi Hirai	SS	2					.000
Totals		1728	0	0	0	0	.000

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