1985 NPB All-Star Game

There were three 1985 NPB All-Star Games, and the Central League won twice while the Pacific League won another.

Game 1

Game 1 took place on July 20 at Meiji-Jingu Stadium, with an attendance of 28,499. Yutaka Takagi drove in the only runs of this game with a single in the 5th inning and won the MVP. The CL's starter Suguru Egawa struck out 5 in 3 innings, and he shut out the PL alongside Takao Obana, Nobuhiro Takagi, Akio Saito and Kazuyuki Yamamoto.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Pacific	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
Central	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	x	2	5	0

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Makoto Shimada, CF (Nippon Ham Fighters)
2. Yasushi Tao, RF (Seibu Lions)
3. Hiromitsu Ochiai, 2B (Lotte Orions)
4. Greg Wells, 1B (Hankyu Braves)
5. Koji Minoda, LF (Hankyu)
6. Koji Akiyama, 3B (Seibu)
7. Hiromichi Ishige, SS (Seibu)
8. Tsutomu Itoh, C (Seibu)
9. Hisashi Yamada, P (Hankyu)

Backups Used

• Hidetoshi Hakamada, C (Lotte)
• Masataka Nashida, PH (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
• Hiromi Matsunaga, PH (Hankyu)
• Koji Yamamoto, PH (Lotte)
• Hideo Furuya, PH (Nippon Ham)
• Eiji Kanamori, LF (Seibu)
• Yutaka Fukumoto, CF (Hankyu)
• Tatsumi Murata, P (Kintetsu)
• Hiroshi Tsuno, P (Nippon Ham)
• Osamu Higashio, P (Seibu)
• Hisanobu Watanabe, P (Seibu)

Manager

• Toshiharu Ueda

Coaches

• Kazuhisa Inao
• Tatsuro Hirooka

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Yutaka Takagi, SS (Taiyo Whales)
2. Kazunori Shinozuka, 2B (Yomiuri Giants)
3. Randy Bass, 1B (Hanshin Tigers)
4. Koji Yamamoto, LF (Hiroshima Carp)
5. Masayuki Kakefu, 3B (Hanshin)
6. Warren Cromartie, CF (Yomiuri)
7. Toru Sugiura, RF (Yakult Swallows)
8. Kazuhiro Yamakura, C (Yomiuri)
9. Suguru Egawa, P (Yomiuri)

Backups Used

• Akinobu Mayumi, RF (Hanshin)
• Katsuo Hirata, SS (Hanshin)
• Tatsunori Hara, 3B (Yomiuri)
• Kiyoshi Nakahata, 1B (Yomiuri)
• Akinobu Okada, PH (Hanshin)
• Sachio Kinugasa, 1B (Hiroshima)
• Yoshihiko Takahashi, SS (Hiroshima)
• Tadashi Matsumoto, LF (Yomiuri)
• Yukio Yaegashi, PH (Yakult)
• Yoshiharu Wakana, C (Taiyo)
• Takao Obana, P (Yakult)
• Nobuhiro Takagi, P (Hiroshima)
• Akio Saito, P (Yakult)
• Kazuyuki Yamamoto, P (Hanshin)

Manager

• Takeshi Koba

Coaches

• Kazuhiro Yamauchi
• Sadaharu Oh

Umpires

• Toshiyuki Tanaka (Home), Noriyuki Fujimoto (1B), Toru Suzuki (2B), Tadatoshi Saida (3B), Osamu Kubota (LF), Tadayoshi Hayashi (RF)

Game 2

Game 2 was held July 21 in front of 28,188 fans at Kawasaki Stadium. Warren Cromartie was 2-for-3 with a game-winning 2-run shot off Hirohisa Matsunuma and won the MVP. The PL's Hiromitsu Ochiai blasted 2 homers and Tsutomu Itoh also had one, but they still lost the one-run game.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Central	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	6	14	0
Pacific	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	5	11	0

Players used

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Takahashi, SS
2. Mayumi, RF
3. Bass, 1B
4. Yamamoto, LF
5. Hara, 3B
6. Cromartie, CF
7. Shinozuka, 2B
8. Wakana, C
9. Tatsuo Komatsu, P (Chunichi Dragons)

Backups used

• Sugiura, CF
• Matsumoto, LF
• Kakefu, 3B
• Nakahata, 1B
• Kinugasa, 1B
• Yamakura, C
• Takagi, PH
• Hirata, SS
• Okada, PH
• Yutaka Ohno, P (Hiroshima)
• Takamasa Suzuki, P (Chunichi)
• Jun Kawabata, P (Hiroshima)
• Kazuyuki Yamamoto, P

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Shimada, CF
2. Fukumoto, LF
3. Ochiai, 2B
4. Wells, 1B
5. Matsunaga, SS
6. Akiyama, 3B
7. Kanamori, RF
8. Itoh, C
9. Yoshinori Sato, P (Hankyu)

Backups Used

• Minoda, RF
• Tao, PH
• Yamamoto, 1B
• Ishige, PH
• Hakamada, C
• Nashida, C
• Furuya, 3B
• Norifumi Nishimura, 2B (Lotte)
• Hirohisa Matsunuma, P (Seibu)
• Shinichi Kato, P (Nankai Hawks)
• Katsuo So, P (Lotte)
• Yasumitsu Shibata, P (Nippon Ham)

Umpires

• Osamu Tachibana (Home), Suzuki (1B), Saida (2B), Kubota (3B), Hayashi (LF), Masao Ota (RF)

Game 3

Game 3 was held July 23 in front of 23,515 fans at Fujiidera Stadium. All-Star home run record holder Koji Yamamoto blasted his 14th homer in the 5th inning and drove in 2 runs. However, those were the only runs of the CL in this game, and the PL collected 17 hits and scored double-digit runs. Hiromi Matsunaga won MVP as his RBI single brought the game-winning run for the PL, and Koji Minoda added 3 insurance runs with a homer off Akio Saito in the 8th inning.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Central	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	9	1
Pacific	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	4	x	10	17	0

Players used

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Takagi, SS
2. Matsumoto, CF
3. Kakefu, 3B
4. Yamamoto, LF
5. Bass, 1B
6. Mayumi, RF
7. Shinozuka, 2B
8. Wakana, C
9. Kazuhiko Endo, P (Chunichi Dragons)

Backups used

• Hirata, SS
• Takahashi, PH
• Yamakura, C
• Hara, 3B
• Sugiura, RF
• Nakahata, 1B
• Kinugasa, 1B
• Okada, PH
• Cromartie, PH
• Yaegashi, C
• Obana, P
• Takagi, P
• Ono, P
• Suzuki, P
• Saito, P

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Fukumoto, LF
2. Kanamori, RF
3. Ochiai, 2B
4. Wells, 1B
5. Matsunaga, SS
6. Furuya, 3B
7. Akiyama, CF
8. Nashida, C
9. Choji Murata, P (Lotte)

Backups Used

• Minoda, LF
• Tao, RF
• Yamamoto, 1B
• Itoh, C
• Ishige, SS
• Nishimura, 2B
• Shimada, CF
• Takanori Yamauchi, P (Nankai)
• T.Murata, P
• Watanabe, P
• So, P
• Shibata, P

Umpires

• Ota (Home), Hayashi (1B), Kubota (2B), Fujimoto (3B), Tanaka (LF), Tachibana (RF)

Sources

• Japanese Wikipedia entry