1990 NPB All-Star Game

The 1990 NPB All-Star Games featured two contests, and the Pacific League won both.

Game 1

Game 1 was July 24 at the Yokohama Stadium, with 27,431 in attendance. The Pacific League got a six-hit shutout from Hideyuki Awano (W), Hisanobu Watanabe, Taigen Kaku, Yukihiko Yamaoki, Hideo Nomo and Yoshihisa Shiratake. It was the second year in a row that the first NPB All-Star Game was a shutout, just as the PL did last year. Ralph Bryant's game-winning, two-run shot off Masaki Saito earned him the MVP, and the PL added three insurance runs as their batters hit a single in four consecutive at-bats. Kazuhiro Kiyohara also added a two-run homer in the 5th inning, and the CL's only highlight was Hiromitsu Ochiai, who had half of their 6 hits.

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

Players used

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Koji Akiyama, CF (Seibu Lions)
2. Daijiro Oishi, 2B (Kintetsu Buffaloes)
3. Ralph Bryant, RF (Kintetsu)
4. Kazuhiro Kiyohara, 1B (Seibu)
5. Kazuhiko Ishimine, LF (Orix BlueWave)
6. Yoshiaki Kanemura, 3B (Kintetsu)
7. Yukio Tanaka, SS (Nippon Ham Fighters)
8. Tsutomu Itoh, C (Seibu)
9. Hideyuki Awano, P (Kintetsu)

Backups Used

• Hatsuhiko Tsuji, 2B (Seibu)
• Takahisa Suzuki, RF (Kintetsu)
• Hiromi Matsunaga, SS (Orix)
• Toshiya Adachi, SS (Kintetsu)
• Hiromichi Ishige, PH (Seibu)
• Kazunori Yamamoto, LF (Daiei Hawks)
• Fujio Tamura, C (Nippon Ham)
• Norifumi Nishimura, PR (Lotte Orions)
• Hiromitsu Kadota, PH (Kintetsu)
• Hisanobu Watanabe, P (Seibu)
• Taigen Kaku, P (Seibu)
• Yukihiko Yamaoki, P (Orix)
• Hideo Nomo, P (Kintetsu)
• Yoshihisa Shiratake, P (Lotte)

Manager

• Akira Ogi

Coaches

• Masaaki Mori
• Toshiharu Ueda

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Takahiro Ikeyama, SS (Yakult Swallows)
2. Toshikatsu Hikono, CF (Chunichi Dragons)
3. Tatsunori Hara, LF (Yomiuri Giants)
4. Hiromitsu Ochiai, 3B (Chunichi)
5. Larry Parrish, 1B (Hanshin Tigers)
6. Katsumi Hirosawa, RF (Yakult)
7. Akinobu Okada, 2B (Hanshin)
8. Kazuhiro Yamakura, C (Yomiuri)
9. Hiroki Nomura, P (Taiyo Whales)

Backups Used

• Yutaka Takagi, PH (Taiyo)
• Atsuya Furuta, C (Yakult)
• Kenichi Yamazaki, CF (Taiyo)
• Kaoru Okazaki, 3B (Yomiuri)
• Kenjiro Nomura, CF (Hiroshima Carp)
• Kozo Shoda, PH (Hiroshima)
• Masahiro Kawai, 2B (Yomiuri)
• Norihiro Komada, RF (Yomiuri)
• Takeshi Nakamura, C (Chunichi)
• Warren Cromartie, PH (Yomiuri)
• Masaki Saito, P (Yakult)
• Masao Kida, P (Chunichi)
• Shinji Sasaoka, P (Yakult)
• Kazuhiko Endo, P (Taiyo)

Manager

• Motoshi Fujita

Coaches

• Koji Yamamoto
• Senichi Hoshino

Umpires

• Hitoshi Watarida (Home), Osamu Tachibana (1B), Kiyoshi Hirakou (2B), Toshiaki Takagi (3B), Masato Tomoyose (LF), Hitoshi Hasuike (RF)

Game 2

The second game was a day later, at Heiwadai Stadium; 23,541 were present. It was the first time in All-Star history that both sides' starter were rookies, but Tsuyoshi Yoda allowed a solo shot to Kazuhiro Kiyohara in the 2nd inning, and Nomo also gave up a 2-run homer in the third inning to Hiromitsu Ochiai. Kiyohara added another homer off Kazuhisa Kawaguchi in the 6th inning, and he won the MVP. Ochiai also blasted two homers, but Kazuhiro Takeda allowed 5 runs, including homers by Daijiro Oishi and Takahisa Suzuki in the 8th inning, so the PL swept them.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Central	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	4	7	9	0
Pacific	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	5	x	12	15	0

Players used

Central League Starting Lineup

1. Cromartie, CF
2. Nomura, SS
3. Hara, LF
4. Ochiai, DH
5. Hirosawa, RF
6. Okazaki, 3B
7. Komada, 1B
8. Kawai, 2B
9. Furuta, C

• Tsuyoshi Yoda, P (Chunichi)

Backups used

• Yamasaki, CF
• Ikeyama, 3B
• Nakamura, C
• Yamakura, C
• Okada, 2B
• Hikono, RF
• Shoda, PR
• Parrish, PH
• Kenjiro Kawasaki, P (Yakult)
• Kazuhisa Kawaguchi, P (Hiroshima)
• Takashi Nishimoto, P (Chunichi)
• Yoshihiro Nakada, P (Hanshin)

Pacific League Starting Lineup

1. Nishimura, CF
2. Yamamoto, DH
3. Bryant, RF
4. Kiyohara, 1B
5. Ishimine, LF
6. Matsunaga, 3B
7. Tanaka, SS
8. Nakajima, C
9. Tsuji, 2B

• Nomo, P

Backups Used

• Suzuki, LF
• Akiyama, P
• Kanemura, 2B
• Adachi, C
• Kadota, P
• Ishige, PH
• Itoh, C
• Tamura, RF
• Oishi, PH
• Yukihiro Nishizaki, P (Nippon Ham)
• Tomio Watanabe, P (Seibu)
• Takehiro Ishii, P (Seibu)
• Kazuhiro Takeda, P (Nippon Ham)

Umpires

• Takeshi Nagami (Home), Wataru Washiya (1B), Hasuike (2B), Tomoyose (3B), Takagi (LF), Watarida (RF)

Sources

• Japanese Wikipedia