1992 Japan Series
The 1992 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1992 season. It was the 43rd Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champion Seibu Lions against the Central League champion Yakult Swallows. Seibu won their third consecutive PL pennant in convincing fashion to reach the series, and Yakult finished the season atop the competitive CL for the first time since 1978. Played at Meiji Jingu Stadium and Seibu Lions Stadium, the Lions defeated the Swallows four games to three in the best-of-seven series to win the franchise's 11th Japan Series title. Seibu's Sawamura Award winner Takehiro Ishii was named Most Valuable Player of the series. The series was played between October 17 and October 26 with home field advantage going to the Central League.
| 1992 Japan Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 17–26 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Takehiro Ishii (SEI) | ||||||||||||
| FSA | Yoichi Okabayashi (YKS) | ||||||||||||
| Broadcast | |||||||||||||
| Television | Fuji TV (Games 1,6), TV Asahi (Games 2,4,5,7) TBS (Game 3), NHK BS-1 (All Games) | ||||||||||||
| Radio | NHK Radio 1, TBS (JRN), JOQR (NRN), NBS (NRN), NACK5 | ||||||||||||
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Summary
PL Seibu Lions (4) vs. CL Yakult Swallows (3)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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| 1 | October 17 | Seibu Lions – 3, Yakult Swallows – 7 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 4:04 | 34,767[1] |
| 2 | October 18 | Seibu Lions – 2, Yakult Swallows – 0 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 3:21 | 35,876[1] |
| 3 | October 21 | Yakult Swallows – 1, Seibu Lions – 6 | Seibu Lions Stadium | 3:24 | 31,370[1] |
| 4 | October 22 | Yakult Swallows – 0, Seibu Lions – 1 | Seibu Lions Stadium | 2:38 | 31,457[1] |
| 5 | October 23 | Yakult Swallows – 7, Seibu Lions – 6 | Seibu Lions Stadium | 3:53 | 31,489[1] |
| 6 | October 25 | Seibu Lions – 7, Yakult Swallows – 8 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 4:10 | 35,391[1] |
| 7 | October 26 | Seibu Lions – 2, Yakult Swallows – 1 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 4:05 | 34,101[1] |
Matchups
Game 1
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E | ||||||||
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| Seibu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||
| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||
| WP: Yoichi Okabayashi (1–0) LP: Yoshitaka Katori (0–1) Home runs: SEI: Orestes Destrade 2 (2) YKS: Atsuya Furuta (1), Toru Sugiura (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 2
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Seibu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| WP: Kuo Tai-yuan (1–0) LP: Daisuke Araki (0–1) Sv: Tetsuya Shiozaki (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 3
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Seibu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | X | 6 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
| WP: Takehiro Ishii (1–0) LP: Kazuhisa Ishii (0–1) Home runs: YKS: Katsumi Hirosawa (1) SEI: None | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 4
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Seibu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| WP: Yoshitaka Katori (1–1) LP: Yoichi Okabayashi (1–1) Sv: Tetsuya Shiozaki (2) Home runs: YKS: None SEI: Koji Akiyama (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 5
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||
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| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Seibu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 0 | ||||||||||
| WP: Akimitsu Itoh (1–0) LP: Tetsuya Shiozaki (0–1) Home runs: YKS: Jack Howell (1), Takahiro Ikeyama (1) SEI: Orestes Destrade (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 6
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||
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| Seibu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 1 | ||||||||||
| WP: Akimitsu Itoh (2–0) LP: Tetsuya Shiozaki (0–2) Home runs: SEI: Hiromichi Ishige (1), Ken Suzuki (1) YKS: Hideki Hashigami (1), Takahiro Ikeyama (2), Jack Howell (2), Shinji Hata (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 7
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||
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| Seibu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
| WP: Takehiro Ishii (2–0) LP: Yoichi Okabayashi (1–2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- 1992年度日本シリーズ 試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved June 10, 2010.