1996 Nippon Series

Nippon Series

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The Teams

Orix BlueWave

Managed by Akira Ohgi

Yomiuri Giants

Managed by Shigeo Nagashima

The Games

Game 1

October 19 at 6:04 PM at Tokyo Dome (45,121)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R
Orix BlueWave	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	4
Yomiuri Giants	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	3

BlueWave: Nobuyuki Hoshino - Hiroshi Kobayashi - Takehide Ito - Takahito Nomura - Taira Suzuki W (1-0) - Masafumi Hirai S (1S)

Giants: Masaki Saito - Kazuhisa Kawaguchi - Hiroshi Ishige - Hirofumi Kono L (0-1) - Katsuhito Mizuno

Home Runs

Giants: Takeshi Omori 1 (2)

BlueWave: Ichiro Suzuki 1

Game 2

October 20 at 6:33 PM at Tokyo Dome (45,086)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Orix BlueWave	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
Yomiuri Giants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

BlueWave: Willie Fraser W (1-0) - Hiroshi Kobayashi - Takahito Nomura - Taira Suzuki S (1S)

Giants: Hiromi Makihara L (0-1) - Hideyuki Awano - Masao Kida - Kazuhisa Kawaguchi - Katsuhito Mizuno

Home Runs

None

Game 3

October 22 at 6:10 PM at Green Stadium Kobe (33,026)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Yomiuri Giants	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Orix BlueWave	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	5

Giants: Balvino Galvez L (0-1) - Katsuhito Mizuno - Hideyuki Awano - Kazutaka Nishiyama - Mario Brito

BlueWave: Koji Noda W (1-0) - Takehide Ito - Masafumi Hirai - Takahito Nomura - Taira Suzuki S (2S)

Home Runs

Giants: Toshihisa Nishi 1, Shane Mack 1

Game 4

October 23 at 6:10 PM at Green Stadium Kobe (33,070)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Yomiuri Giants	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	5
Orix BlueWave	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

Giants: Kazutomo Miyamoto - Masao Kida W (1-0) - Hideyuki Awano - Hiroshi Ishige S (1S)

BlueWave: Jiro Toyoda L (0-1) - Masahiko Kaneda - Hiroshi Kobayashi - Shigetoshi Hasegawa

Home Runs

Giants: Takeshi Omori 1

Game 5

October 24 at 6:10 PM at Green Stadium Kobe (33,222)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Yomiuri Giants	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Orix BlueWave	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	X	5

Giants: Masaki Saito L (0-1) - Hirofumi Kono - Kazutaka Nishiyama - Kazuhisa Kawaguchi

BlueWave: Nobuyuki Hoshino - Takehide Ito W (1-0) - Takahito Nomura - Taira Suzuki S (3S)

Home Runs

Giants: Toshihisa Nishi 1 (2)