
1961 Yomiuri Giants Statistics
Team Record: 71-53
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Tetsuharu Kawakami (71-53)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium
Japan Series - Yomiuri Giants 4 games, Nankai Hawks 2
The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1961 season with a record of 71 wins and 53 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.
The Giants paced the league with 435 runs, spearheaded by 89 home runs. Yomiuri surrendered 383 runs. Shigeo Nagashima powered the team with 28 home runs and accounted for 86 RBI, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .353. Minoru Nakamura topped the squad with 17 wins, and Yoshiaki Ito recorded a 2.12 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound. Tetsuharu Kawakami 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 |
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Minoru Nakamura | 17 | 10 | .630 | 2.13 | 63 | 24 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 241.0 | 202 | 69 | 57 | 13 | 63 | 8 | 142 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 975 | |
Yoshiaki Ito | 13 | 6 | .684 | 2.11 | 51 | 19 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 187.7 | 146 | 49 | 44 | 9 | 83 | 0 | 166 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 778 | |
Ritsuo Horimoto | 11 | 12 | .478 | 3.11 | 40 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 179.3 | 156 | 68 | 62 | 15 | 73 | 7 | 93 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 751 | |
Masayuki Yamazaki | 9 | 5 | .643 | 2.17 | 40 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 149.0 | 106 | 41 | 36 | 14 | 36 | 3 | 77 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 585 | |
Motoshi Fujita | 8 | 13 | .381 | 2.74 | 42 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 141.0 | 130 | 54 | 43 | 4 | 61 | 6 | 64 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 589 | |
Hiromoto Murase | 5 | 1 | .833 | 2.12 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 51.0 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 196 | |
Sho Horiuchi | 5 | 2 | .714 | 3.07 | 29 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 76.3 | 64 | 27 | 26 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 303 | |
Hiroaki Aoki | 2 | 2 | .500 | 2.03 | 24 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 57.7 | 42 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 223 | |
Taketoshi Yoshiwara | 1 | 2 | .333 | 1.60 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 45.0 | 35 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 181 | |
Takamasa Kondo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
Seiji Saito | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
Eiichiro Takahashi | 0 | 0 | 2.52 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 106 | ||
Tsunetoshi Nakamura | 0 | 0 | 2.70 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | ||
Nobuyuki Okuma | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||
Yoshinori Kido | 0 | 0 | 6.61 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16.3 | 27 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 75 | ||
Akira Takahashi | 0 | 0 | 15.00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||
Totals | 71 | 53 | .573 | 2.50 | 348 | 130 | 107 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 1183.0 | 968 | 383 | 329 | 68 | 418 | 26 | 675 | 31 | 3 | 16 | 4831 |
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 |
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Shigeo Nagashima | 130 | 543 | 448 | 84 | 158 | 32 | 9 | 28 | 86 | 14 | 11 | 88 | 34 | .353 | .456 | .652 | 1.108 | 292 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 35 |
Sadaharu Oh | 127 | 471 | 396 | 50 | 100 | 25 | 6 | 13 | 53 | 10 | 5 | 64 | 72 | .253 | .358 | .444 | .802 | 176 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Akira Kunimatsu | 127 | 463 | 408 | 49 | 91 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 43 | 54 | .223 | .297 | .321 | .618 | 131 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
Kazuhiko Sakazaki | 114 | 374 | 340 | 30 | 87 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 47 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 57 | .256 | .303 | .406 | .709 | 138 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
Tatsuro Hiroka | 125 | 466 | 429 | 38 | 87 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 41 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 54 | .203 | .255 | .315 | .570 | 135 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Masahiko Mori | 113 | 344 | 323 | 17 | 72 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 24 | .223 | .265 | .313 | .578 | 101 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Tsuneo Takabayashi | 119 | 370 | 320 | 34 | 70 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 43 | .219 | .279 | .275 | .554 | 88 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 0 |
Toshio Miyamoto | 112 | 326 | 290 | 29 | 69 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 41 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 48 | .238 | .311 | .366 | .676 | 106 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Akira Shiobara | 48 | 137 | 127 | 14 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | .276 | .303 | .354 | .657 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Tatsuyoshi Yasuhara | 86 | 173 | 155 | 19 | 34 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 35 | .219 | .292 | .284 | .576 | 44 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Shigeru Fujio | 89 | 190 | 161 | 15 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 30 | .186 | .293 | .267 | .560 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Shoji Tokai | 76 | 142 | 123 | 17 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 23 | .211 | .307 | .325 | .632 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Shin Fujimoto | 107 | 162 | 152 | 6 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 23 | .158 | .205 | .178 | .383 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Hiroshi Masuda | 45 | 93 | 87 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 21 | .161 | .207 | .195 | .402 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Yoshiaki Ito | 51 | 65 | 60 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .217 | .217 | .233 | .450 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Minoru Nakamura | 63 | 74 | 68 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17 | .147 | .194 | .162 | .356 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Masayuki Yamazaki | 41 | 47 | 44 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .159 | .178 | .182 | .360 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Tadaomi Nishino | 47 | 43 | 41 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | .146 | .186 | .146 | .332 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ritsuo Horimoto | 43 | 60 | 54 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .074 | .123 | .074 | .197 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Fumio Kitsugi | 28 | 27 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .130 | .222 | .174 | .396 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Motoshi Fujita | 43 | 44 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | .077 | .100 | .077 | .177 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Shosuke Doi | 33 | 45 | 43 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .070 | .111 | .070 | .181 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shojiro Namba | 10 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .250 | .400 | .375 | .775 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sho Horiuchi | 32 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .154 | .214 | .154 | .368 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Hiromoto Murase | 9 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .143 | .143 | .214 | .357 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Eiichiro Takahashi | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tadashi Kawano | 20 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tsugio Kada | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Taketoshi Yoshiwara | 23 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Isao Sasaki | 13 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .100 | .250 | .100 | .350 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hiroaki Aoki | 29 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Genzo Noguchi | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Akira Takahashi | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Masami Nishiyama | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shizuo Nasu | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yoshinori Kido | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hideo Yawata | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 1951 | 4770 | 4228 | 435 | 958 | 165 | 30 | 89 | 406 | 78 | 60 | 405 | 657 | .227 | .297 | .343 | .640 | 1450 | 72 | 28 | 84 | 25 | 46 |
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