Motoaki Horigome

Motoaki Horigome (堀込 基明)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 9", Weight 156 lb.

• School Senshu University
• High School Komoro Commercial High School

• Born October 31, 1939 in Komoro, Nagano Japan
• Died February 16, 1997

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Biographical Information

Motoaki Horigome has played in Nippon Pro Baseball.

Horigome was signed by the Nankai Hawks in 1962. He only batted .176/.247/.255 in his rookie year, but improved soon and recorded a .257/.305/.387 batting line in 1963. Horigome was selected into the 1964 NPB All-Star Game, but only went 0-for-1. He ended up batting .275/.313/.400 with a league-leading 8 sacrifice flies in that season. In the 1964 Nippon Series, Horigome collected a double and a single in both Game 6 and Game 7, to help the Hawks won the Nippon Series Title; he hit .250/.375/.250 for the Series. The Nagano native participated in the All-Star Game again, and collected a single in each game. He hit .277/.319/.398 and won the only Best Nine award as an outfielder. He regressed and only batted .227/.260/.343 in the 1966 season. Inthe 1966 Nippon Series, Horigome blasted a homer off Kunio Jonouchi in Game 1, but then went 1-for-12 in the rest of the series; the only hit was a double from Jonouchi in Game 3. He lost the starting outfielder spot to Tsuneyoshi Koizumi in 1967, when he only batted .233/.272/.331 in 305 at-bats. The Hawks traded him to the Chunichi Dragons for Ikuo Shimano and Kimihiro Sato in the middle of the 1968 season. Horigome didn't bat well with the Dragons, as he recorded a .248/.317/.302 line in 1968. He then announced his retirement after the 1969 season, and became a coach for the Dragons from 1970 to 1971.

Overall, Horigome had hit .246/.291/.356 in 8 seasons in NPB.