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2013 Central League Climax Series
The 2013 Central League Climax Series (CLCS) consisted of two consecutive series, Stage 1 being a best-of-three series and Stage 2 being a best-of-six with the top seed being awarded a one-win advantage. The winner of the series advanced to the 2013 Japan Series The 2013 Japan Series (known as the ''Konami Nippon Series 2013'' for sponsorship reasons) was the 64th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) championship series known colloquially as the Japan Series. The best-of-seven playoff was won ..., where they competed against the 2013 Pacific League Climax Series (PLCS) winner. The top three regular-season finishers played in the two series. The CLCS began on with the first game of Stage 1 on October 12 and ended with the final game of Stage 2 on October 18. First Stage Summary Game 1 Game 2 Final Stage Summary :* The Central League regular season champion is given a one-game advantage in the Final Stage. Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 References {{Yomiuri G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
The is a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by , who is a descendant of Mazda founder Jujiro Matsuda. Mazda is the largest single shareholder (34.2%), which is less than the portion owned by the Matsuda family (about 60%). Because of that, Mazda is not considered the owner firm. However, the company connection is highlighted in the club name; until 1984, Mazda's official name was . The Carp are the only one of the 28 Asian professional baseball teams to be majority privately owned. History Early years The Nippon Professional Baseball league was planned to be split into two separate leagues in 1949, and Hiroshima prefecture decided to establish a professional baseball team as part of the reconstruction process after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The team joined the Central League in December 1949 as the Hiroshima Carp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shintaro Fujinami
is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers. Amateur career Fujinami started playing Little League Baseball for the Takeshirodai Club, then played for the Osaka Senboku Boys upon entering Miyayamadai Junior High, where he pitched as fast as . He also pitched for the national team in the 16U(AA) Baseball World Championship. He graduated grade school at , and junior high at . He and his father were avid fans of the Yomiuri Giants. In 2010, Fujinami entered Osaka Toin High School. In his final year in 2012 he led Tōin as their ace pitcher at the Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament and Japanese High School Baseball Championship, where the school won both competitions. During the Summer Koshien tournaments, he pitched two consecutive complete shutout games in both the semi-finals and finals (only surrendering two hits in ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kentaro Nishimura
is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consist .... On October 3, 2018, he announced retirement after the season. References External links 1985 births Japanese baseball players Living people Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Baseball people from Hiroshima Prefecture Yomiuri Giants players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuji Yokoyama
is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp The is a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. They compete in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by , who is a descendant of Mazda founder Jujiro Matsuda .... External links * NPB.com 1976 births Living people Baseball people from Fukui Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Hiroshima Toyo Carp players Japanese baseball coaches Nippon Professional Baseball coaches {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Yamaguchi
is a former Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League. Career He was playing in the Missoula Osprey (Advanced Rookie level under Arizona Diamondbacks) before he was drafted by the Giants in 2005. He was awarded as Central League's Rookie of the Year in 2008, beating his teammate and another award favorite Hayato Sakamoto, by finishing with an 11-2 with 67 appearances, the most wins of all-time in Giants' relief pitchers. On October 5, 2018, he announced retirement after the season. International career He was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic and 2013 World Baseball Classic The 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, held from March 2 to March 19, 2013. This was the third iteration of the WBC, following the two previous tournaments, held in 2006 and 2009. Unlike .... References External links 1983 births Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunkyō
is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area, Bunkyō is a residential and educational center. Beginning in the Meiji period, literati like Natsume Sōseki, as well as scholars and politicians have lived there. Bunkyō is home to the Tokyo Dome, Judo's Kōdōkan, and the University of Tokyo's Hongo Campus. Bunkyō has a sister-city relationship with Kaiserslautern in the Rhineland-Palatinate of Germany. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Hongo and Koishikawa wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Bunkyo ward exhibits contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural division. The Nezu and Sendagi neighborhoods in the ward's eastern corner is attached to the Shitamachi area in Ueno with more traditional Japanese atmosphere. On the other hand, the remaining areas of the ward typically represent Yamanote districts. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has a population of 217,743 (including abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Dome
is an indoor stadium in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a baseball stadium following its predecessor, Korakuen Stadium. Construction on the stadium began on May 16, 1985, and it opened on March 17, 1988. It was built on the site of the Velodrome, adjacent to the predecessor ballpark, Korakuen Stadium. It has a maximum total capacity of 57,000 depending on configuration, with an all-seating configuration of 42,000. Tokyo Dome's original nickname was "The Big Egg", with some calling it the "Tokyo Big Egg".Haberman, Clyde Some Doubts, a Tokyo Dome New York Times, March 23, 1988 Its dome-shaped roof is an air-supported structure, a flexible membrane supported by slightly pressurizing the inside of the stadium. It was developed by Nikken Sekkei and Takenaka Corporation. It was modeled after the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is the home field of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team. On March 18, 1988, the day after the Tokyo Dome opened, the Yomiri Giants held the game as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinjiro Hiyama
is a Korean baseball player from Ukyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. He plays as an outfielder for the Hanshin Tigers of the Central League. Biography A second-generation Zainichi Korean, Hiyama graduated from Heian High School and entered Toyo University is a university with several branches in Japan, including Hakusan, Asaka, Kawagoe, Itakura, and Akabane. Overview The predecessor to Toyo University was , which was founded at Rinsho-in Temple by Enryo Inoue in 1887. Inoue felt that the .... He played in the Tohto University Baseball League, and got 83 hits (13 home runs) in 261 at bats (batting average: .318), and batted in 45 runs. He was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers in 1991, and through 2011 season, his statistics are 1240 hits (including 159 home runs) in 4754 at bats (average: .261), and 688 RBIs ( :ja:桧山進次郎). References External linksBaseball Reference 1969 births Living people Zainichi Korean baseball players Baseball people from Kyoto People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuyoshi Nishioka
is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines and Hanshin Tigers, as well as Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins. Nishioka played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a member of the Japanese national team. In 2010, he became the fifth person to record 200 hits in a single NPB season. Early life and high school career Nishioka was born in Daitō, Osaka, and grew up in the city of Nara. He played in the national tournament as a member of Kōriyama Senior while attending Nara Prefectural Heijō East Junior High School, starting baseball as a right-handed hitter and switched to the left side during junior high. Nishioka led Osaka Tōin to the 84th National High School Baseball Championship in his senior year of high school as the team captain and leadoff hitter, but the team lost in the first round to Tōhō High School, the Aichi champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Messenger
Randall Jerome Messenger (born August 13, 1981) is an American former professional baseball pitcher, best known for his time with the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball. He is tall and weighs . He made his Major League debut on June 22, for the Florida Marlins. Messenger graduated from Sparks High School in 1999. Messenger is nicknamed Big Mess. Professional career Florida Marlins He was drafted in the 1999 Major League Baseball Draft in the 11th round, 326th overall, by the Florida Marlins. In Messenger went 0–3 with a 7.52 ERA in 13 outings, including two starts, for Gulf Coast League Marlins. He also spent the with the GCL Marlins going 2–2 with a 4.83 ERA in 12 starts. Messenger went 2–1 with a 3.93 ERA in 14 relief outings for the Class-A Kane County Cougars of the Midwest League. He also was 7–4 with a 4.08 ERA in 18 starts for the Class-A Advanced Brevard County Manatees of the Florida State League. In Messenger set a career high in wins with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Bullington
Bryan Paul Bullington (born September 30, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Bullington was the first overall selection in the 2002 Major League Baseball draft. In Major League Baseball (MLB), he has played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays, and Kansas City Royals. He has also played in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hiroshima Carp and the Orix Buffaloes. High school career During his senior year at Madison Consolidated High School, Bullington was 15–0, and pitched a one-hit game to win the 1999 Indiana High School Athletic Association Baseball State Finals. Bullington was named Mr. Baseball for the state of Indiana in 1999; an award presented annually to the best high school baseball player in Indiana. Bullington was drafted in the 37th round of that year's Major League draft by the Kansas City Royals, but decided not to sign and attended college instead. He was recruited by Ball State University, Ball State, Purdue U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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