1983 Nippon Series

Nippon Series

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The Teams

Seibu Lions

Managed by Tatsuro Hirooka

Yomiuri Giants

Managed by Motoshi Fujita

The Games

Game 1

October 29 at 1:00 PM at Seibu Stadium (32,954)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Yomiuri Giants	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3
Seibu Lions	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	6

Giants: Suguru Egawa L (0-1) - Yoshitaka Katori - Shoji Sadaoka - Hajime Kato

Lions: Hirohisa Matsunuma W (1-0) - Tamotsu Nagai - Osamu Higashio S (1S)

Home Runs

Giants: Kazumasa Kono 1

Lions: Koichi Tabuchi 1

Game 2

October 30 at 1:00 PM at Seibu Stadium (33,696)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Yomiuri Giants	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4
Seibu Lions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Giants: Takashi Nishimoto W (1-0)

Lions: Naoki Takahashi L (0-1) - Masayuki Matsunuma - Seiji Kobayashi - Tamotsu Nagai - Hiroshi Kimura - Kimiyasu Kudo

Home Runs

Giants: Tatsunori Hara 1

Game 3

November 1 at 1:01 PM at Korakuen Stadium (40,279)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Seibu Lions	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	4
Yomiuri Giants	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	2X	5

Lions: Tadashi Sugimoto - Osamu Higashio L (0-1) - Shigekazu Mori

Giants: Hiromi Makihara - Yoshitaka Katori - Hajime Kato W (1-0)

Home Runs

Lions: Terry Whitfield 1

Giants: Hector Cruz 1

Cruz becomes the third player to hit a walk-off Series homer after five or fewer regular-season homers; it will be 33 years before Haruki Nishikawa becomes the 4th player to perform the feat.

Game 4

November 2 at 1:00 PM at Korakuen Stadium (43,436)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Seibu Lions	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	1	7
Yomiuri Giants	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4

Lions: Hirohisa Matsunuma - Masayuki Matsunuma W (1-0) - Shigekazu Mori S (1S)

Giants: Suguru Egawa - Yoshitaka Katori - Hajime Kato L (1-1) - Shoji Sadaoka

Home Runs

Lions: Yoshiie Tachibana 1, Hiroyuki Yamazaki 1

Giants: Kazuhiro Yamakura 1, Tatsunori Hara 1 (2)

Game 5

November 3 at 1:01 PM at Korakuen Stadium (43,500)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Seibu Lions	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
Yomiuri Giants	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3X	5

Lions: Naoki Takahashi - Tamotsu Nagai - Osamu Higashio - Shigekazu Mori L (0-1)

Giants: Takashi Nishimoto W (2-0)

Home Runs

Lions: Koichi Tabuchi 1 (2)

Giants: Tatsunori Hara 1 (3)

Game 6

November 5 at 1:00 PM at Seibu Stadium (31,396)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R
Yomiuri Giants	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3
Seibu Lions	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1X	4

Giants: Hiromi Makihara - Yoshitaka Katori - Hajime Kato - Takashi Nishimoto - Suguru Egawa L (0-2)

Lions: Tadashi Sugimoto - Masayuki Matsunuma - Tamotsu Nagai W (1-0)

Home Runs

Lions: Takuji Ota 1

Game 7

November 7 at 1:01 PM at Seibu Stadium (33,242)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Yomiuri Giants	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Seibu Lions	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	X	3

Giants: Takashi Nishimoto L (2-1) - Mitsuo Sumi

Lions: Hirohisa Matsunuma - Tamotsu Nagai - Masayuki Matsunuma - Osamu Higashio W (1-1)

Home Runs

Giants: Kazuhiro Yamakura 1 (2)