1989 Japan Series

October 2015 Japan 1989 Yomiuri Giants (4) Motoshi Fujita 84 44 2 (.656), 9 GA Games ahead Kintetsu Buffaloes (3) Akira Ohgi 71 54 5 (.568), 0 GA Games ahead October 21–29 Norihiro Komada (Yomiuri) Hiromasa Arai (Kintetsu) ABC (Games 1-2), NTV (Games 3-5), MBS (Game 6), YTV (Game 7), NHK BS-1 (All Games, Tape Delay), NHK General TV (Game 4, Tape Delay) NHK Radio 1, TBS (JRN), JOQR (NRN), NBS (NRN), Radio Nippon, MBS Radio The 1989 Japan Series was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1989 season. The 40th edition of the Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the Pacific League champion Kintetsu Buffaloes against the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants. Kintetsu barely squeaked into the series with a winning percentage only .001 higher than the second place Orix Braves, and Yomiuri won the CL pennant by eight games to return to the series for the 25th time in franchise history. Played at Fujiidera Stadium and Tokyo Dome, the Giants won the series after losing the first three games to the underdog Buffaloes and staging a miraculous comeback, winning four games in a row with the final two wins coming on the road for the first comeback from a 3–0 series deficit since 1986 and first in seven games since 1958. Yomiuri slugger Norihiro Komada was named Most Valuable Player of the series. The series was played between October 21 and October 29 with home field advantage going to the Pacific League. Summary CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Kintetsu Buffaloes (3) October 21 Yomiuri Giants – 3, Kintetsu Buffaloes – 4 Fujiidera Stadium 2:40 23,477 http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1989.html ja:1989年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 June 8, 2011 Nippon Professional Baseball Japanese October 22 Yomiuri Giants – 3, Kintetsu Buffaloes – 6 Fujiidera Stadium 3:40 24,207 October 24 Kintetsu Buffaloes – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 0 Tokyo Dome 2:50 45,711 October 25 Kintetsu Buffaloes – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 5 Tokyo Dome 3:05 45,825 October 26 Kintetsu Buffaloes – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 6 Tokyo Dome 3:01 45,717 October 28 Yomiuri Giants – 3, Kintetsu Buffaloes – 1 Fujiidera Stadium 3:31 23,030 October 29 Yomiuri Giants – 8, Kintetsu Buffaloes – 5 Fujiidera Stadium 3:11 23,091 Matchups Game 1 Saturday, October 21, 1989 Fujiidera Stadium, Fujiidera, Osaka Yomiuri YOM 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 2 Kintetsu KIN 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 X 4 7 0 Hideyuki Awano (1–0) Masaki Saito (0–1) Kaoru Okazaki (1) Daijiro Oishi (1), Takahisa Suzuki (1) Game 2 Sunday, October 22, 1989 Fujiidera Stadium, Fujiidera, Osaka Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 9 1 Kintetsu KIN 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 X 6 10 2 Hideaki Sato (1–0) Masumi Kuwata (0–1) Takayoshi Nakao (1) Game 3 Tuesday, October 24, 1989 Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo Kintetsu KIN 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Tetsuro Katoh (1–0) Kazutomo Miyamoto (0–1) Masato Yoshii (1) Hidekazu Mitsuyama (1) Game 4 Wednesday, October 25, 1989 Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo Kintetsu KIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Yomiuri YOM 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 X 5 8 0 Isao Koda (1–0) Kazuyoshi Ono (0–1) Masato Yoshii (2) Game 5 Thursday, October 26, 1989 Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo Kintetsu KIN 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 X 6 8 1 Masaki Saito (1–1) Hideyuki Awano (1–1) Ralph Bryant (1) Tatsunori Hara (1) Game 6 Saturday, October 28, 1989 Fujiidera Stadium, Fujiidera, Osaka Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 9 2 Kintetsu KIN 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 Masumi Kuwata (1–1) Shintaro Yamasaki (0–1) Katsuhito Mizuno (1) Kaoru Okazaki (2) Germán Rivera (1) Game 7 Sunday, October 29, 1989 Fujiidera Stadium, Fujiidera, Osaka Yomiuri YOM 0 1 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 8 10 0 Kintetsu KIN 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 5 7 3 Isao Koda (2–0) Tetsuro Katoh (1–1) Kazutomo Miyamoto (1) Norihiro Komada (1), Tatsunori Hara (2), Kiyoshi Nakahata (1), Warren Cromartie (1) Yasunaga Makishi (1), Takayuki Murakami (1), Daijiro Oishi (2) See also 1989 World Series References External links Nippon Professional Baseball—Official website (in English) Category:Japan Series Japan Series Japan Series Japan Series Category:Yomiuri Giants Category:Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Category:Events at Tokyo Dome