1992 Japan Series
{{Short description|Japanese baseball championship}}
{{Infobox Japan Series
| image =
| caption =
| country = Japan
| year = 1992
| champion = Seibu Lions (4)
| champion_manager = Masaaki Mori
| champion_games = 80–47–3, .630, GA: 4.5
| runnerup = Yakult Swallows (3)
| runnerup_manager = Katsuya Nomura
| runnerup_games = 69–61–1, .531, GA: 2
| date = October 17–26
| MVP = Takehiro Ishii (SEI)
| FSA = Yoichi Okabayashi (YKS)
| television = Fuji TV (Games 1,6), TV Asahi (Games 2,4,5,7) TBS (Game 3), NHK BS-1 (All Games)
| announcers =
| radio_network = NHK Radio 1, TBS (JRN), JOQR (NRN), NBS (NRN), NACK5
| radio_announcers =
| umpires =
}}
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.
Summary
{{MLB Playoff Summary
| summary = PL Seibu Lions (4) vs. CL Yakult Swallows (3)
| winner =
| leader =
| score =
| date1 = October 17
| score1 = Seibu Lions – 3, Yakult Swallows – 7
| loc1 = Meiji Jingu Stadium
| time1 = 4:04
| att1 = 34,767
| ref1 ={{cite web|url=http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1992.html|script-title=ja:1992年度日本シリーズ 試合結果 |accessdate=June 10, 2010 |publisher=Nippon Professional Baseball| language=Japanese}}
| date2 = October 18
| score2 = Seibu Lions – 2, Yakult Swallows – 0
| loc2 = Meiji Jingu Stadium
| time2 = 3:21
| att2 = 35,876
| date3 = October 21
| score3 = Yakult Swallows – 1, Seibu Lions – 6
| loc3 = Seibu Lions Stadium
| time3 = 3:24
| att3 = 31,370
| date4 = October 22
| score4 = Yakult Swallows – 0, Seibu Lions – 1
| loc4 = Seibu Lions Stadium
| time4 = 2:38
| att4 = 31,457
| date5 = October 23
| score5 = Yakult Swallows – 7, Seibu Lions – 6
| loc5 = Seibu Lions Stadium
| time5 = 3:53
| att5 = 31,489
| date6 = October 25
| score6 = Seibu Lions – 7, Yakult Swallows – 8
| loc6 = Meiji Jingu Stadium
| time6 = 4:10
| att6 = 35,391
| date7 = October 26
| score7 = Seibu Lions – 2, Yakult Swallows – 1
| loc7 = Meiji Jingu Stadium
| time7 = 4:05
| att7 = 34,101
}}
Matchups
=Game 1=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Saturday, October 17, 1992
|Location=Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
|Road=Seibu|RoadAbr=SEI
|R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=1|R10=0|R11=0|R12=0|RR=3|RH=10|RE=0
|Home=Yakult|HomeAbr=YKS
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=2|H4=0|H5=0|H6=1|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|H10=0|H11=0|H12=4|HR=7|HH=14|HE=0
|WP=Yoichi Okabayashi (1–0)|LP=Yoshitaka Katori (0–1)|
|RoadHR=Orestes Destrade 2 (2)|
HomeHR=Atsuya Furuta (1), Toru Sugiura (1)|
}}
=Game 2=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Sunday, October 18, 1992
|Location=Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
|Road=Seibu|RoadAbr=SEI
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=2|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=2|RH=8|RE=0
|Home=Yakult|HomeAbr=YKS
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|HR=0|HH=3|HE=1
|WP=Kuo Tai-yuan (1–0)|LP=Daisuke Araki (0–1)|
SV=Tetsuya Shiozaki (1)
|
}}
=Game 3=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Wednesday, October 21, 1992
|Location=Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama
|Road=Yakult|RoadAbr=YKS
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=0|RR=1|RH=5|RE=0
|Home=Seibu|HomeAbr=SEI
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=2|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=4|H9=X|HR=6|HH=11|HE=0
|WP=Takehiro Ishii (1–0)|LP=Kazuhisa Ishii (0–1)|
|RoadHR=Katsumi Hirosawa (1)|
}}
=Game 4=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Thursday, October 22, 1992
|Location=Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama
|Road=Yakult|RoadAbr=YKS
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|RR=0|RH=5|RE=0
|Home=Seibu|HomeAbr=SEI
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=X|HR=1|HH=4|HE=1
|WP=Yoshitaka Katori (1–1)|LP=Yoichi Okabayashi (1–1)|
SV=Tetsuya Shiozaki (2)|
HomeHR=Koji Akiyama (1)|
}}
=Game 5=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Friday, October 23, 1992
|Location=Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama
|Road=Yakult|RoadAbr=YKS
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=3|R5=2|R6=1|R7=0|R8=0|R9=0|R10=1|RR=7|RH=11|RE=1
|Home=Seibu|HomeAbr=SEI
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=0|H5=0|H6=5|H7=1|H8=0|H9=0|H10=0|HR=6|HH=11|HE=0
|WP=Akimitsu Itoh (1–0)|LP=Tetsuya Shiozaki (0–1)
|RoadHR=Jack Howell (1), Takahiro Ikeyama (1)|
HomeHR=Orestes Destrade (3)|
}}
=Game 6=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Sunday, October 25, 1992
|Location=Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
|Road=Seibu|RoadAbr=SEI
|R1=0|R2=1|R3=0|R4=2|R5=0|R6=3|R7=0|R8=0|R9=1|R10=0|RR=7|RH=6|RE=0
|Home=Yakult|HomeAbr=YKS
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=2|H4=2|H5=0|H6=1|H7=2|H8=0|H9=0|H10=1|HR=8|HH=14|HE=1
|WP=Akimitsu Itoh (2–0)|LP=Tetsuya Shiozaki (0–2)|
RoadHR=Hiromichi Ishige (1), Ken Suzuki (1)|
HomeHR=Hideki Hashigami (1), Takahiro Ikeyama (2), Jack Howell (2), Shinji Hata (1)|
}}
=Game 7=
{{Linescore|
|Date=Monday, October 26, 1992
|Location=Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
|Road=Seibu|RoadAbr=SEI
|R1=0|R2=0|R3=0|R4=0|R5=0|R6=0|R7=1|R8=0|R9=0|R10=1|RR=2|RH=8|RE=1
|Home=Yakult|HomeAbr=YKS
|H1=0|H2=0|H3=0|H4=1|H5=0|H6=0|H7=0|H8=0|H9=0|H10=0|HR=1|HH=9|HE=1
|WP=Takehiro Ishii (2–0)|LP=Yoichi Okabayashi (1–2)
}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.npb.or.jp/eng/ Nippon Professional Baseball]—Official website (in English)
{{JapanSeries}}
{{Saitama Seibu Lions}}
{{Tokyo Yakult Swallows}}