1963 Japan Series
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| Dates: | October 26 – November 4 | |||||||||
| MVP: | Shigeo Nagashima (YOM) | |||||||||
| FSA: | Kazuhisa Inao (NIS) | |||||||||
The 1963 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1963 season. It was the 14th Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Nishitetsu Lions, against the Central League champions, the Yomiuri Giants.
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Summary
CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Nishitetsu Lions (3)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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| 1 | October 26 | Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 6 | Heiwadai Stadium | 2:29 | 29,806[1] |
| 2 | October 27 | Yomiuri Giants – 9, Nishitetsu Lions – 6 | Heiwadai Stadium | 2:54 | 29,969[1] |
| 3 | October 30 | Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 8 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:28 | 30,384[1] |
| 4 | October 31 | Nishitetsu Lions – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 1 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:42 | 29,960[1] |
| 5 | November 1 | Nishitetsu Lions – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:10 | 30,386[1] |
| 6 | November 3 | Yomiuri Giants – 0, Nishitetsu Lions – 6 | Heiwadai Stadium | 2:09 | 27,079[1] |
| 7 | November 4 | Yomiuri Giants – 18, Nishitetsu Lions – 4 | Heiwadai Stadium | 2:32 | 17,436[1] |
Matchups
Game 1
Saturday, October 26, 1963 – 1:00 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Nishitetsu | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||
| WP: Kazuhisa Inao (1–0) LP: Yoshiaki Itō (0–1) Home runs: YOM: Masayuki Yamazaki (1) NIS: Hiromi Wada (1), George Wilson (1) |
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Game 2
Sunday, October 27, 1963 – 1:00 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Nishitetsu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | |||||||||||
| WP: Motoshi Fujita (1–0) LP: Kazuhara Abe (0–1) Home runs: YOM: Sadaharu Oh (1) NIS: George Wilson (2) |
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Game 3
Wednesday, October 30, 1963 – 1:00 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Nishitetsu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||
| WP: Yoshiaki Itō (1–1) LP: Kazuhisa Inao (1–1) Home runs: NIS: None YOM: Shigeo Nagashima (1) |
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Game 4
Thursday, October 31, 1963 – 1:00 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Nishitetsu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||
| WP: Kazuhara Abe (1–1) LP: Yukinori Miyata (0–1) Home runs: NIS: Kusuo Tanaka (1) YOM: None |
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Game 5
Friday, November 1, 1963 – 1:00 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | |||||||||||||
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| Nishitetsu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Yomiuri | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | |||||||||||||
| WP: Akira Takahashi (1–0) LP: Yoshio Inoue (0–1) Home runs: NIS: Jim Baumer (1) YOM: Shigeo Nagashima 2 (3), Sadaharu Oh (2) |
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Game 6
Sunday, November 3, 1963 – 12:59 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Nishitetsu | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
| WP: Kazuhisa Inao (2–1) LP: Yoshiaki Itō (1–2) Home runs: YOM: None NIS: Jim Baumer (2) |
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Game 7
Monday, November 4, 1963 – 12:59 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 19 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nishitetsu | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 1 | |||||||||||
| WP: Akira Takahashi (2–0) LP: Kazuhisa Inao (2–2) Home runs: YOM: Toshio Yanagida (1), Isao Shibata (1), Sadaharu Oh 2 (4), Yoshiyuki Ikezawa, (1) NIS: Koshiro Ito (1) |
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