1957 Japan Series

Japan 1957 Nishitetsu Lions (4) Osamu Mihara 83 44 5 (.648), 7 GA Games ahead Yomiuri Giants (0) Shigeru Mizuhara 74 53 3 (.581), 1 GA Games ahead October 26 – November 1 Hiroshi Ōshita (Nishitetsu) Andy Miyamoto (Yomiuri) The 1957 Japan Series was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the 1957 season. The eighth edition of the Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the Pacific League champion Nishitetsu Lions against the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants. The Lions won the series in five games that saw one game end in a tie and the other four all end with them winning by just one run each. Summary PL Nishitetsu Lions (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (0) October 26 Yomiuri Giants – 2, Nishitetsu Lions – 3 Heiwadai Stadium 2:38 23,992 http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1957.html ja:1957年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 1957 Japan Series Results April 16, 2010 Nippon Professional Baseball Japanese https://web.archive.org/web/20100326032523/http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1957.html 26 March 2010 live October 27 Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 2 Heiwadai Stadium 2:18 24,373 October 30 Nishitetsu Lions – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 4 Korakuen Stadium 2:32 30,484 October 31 Nishitetsu Lions – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 0 Korakuen Stadium 3:01 27,649 November 1 Nishitetsu Lions – 6, Yomiuri Giants – 5 Korakuen Stadium 2:37 30,519 Matchups Game 1 Saturday, October 26, 1957 – 1:02 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka Yomiuri YOM 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 9 0 Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 X 3 7 0 Kazuhisa Inao (1–0) Takumi Ōtomo (0–1) Yasumitsu Toyoda (1) Game 2 Sunday, October 27, 1957 – 1:02 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1 Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2X 2 5 0 Hidefumi Kawamura (1–0) Motoshi Fujita (0–1) Andy Miyamoto (1) Game 3 Wednesday, October 30, 1957 – 1:33 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 5 6 3 Yomiuri YOM 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 6 1 Kazuhisa Inao (2–0) Taketoshi Yoshihara (0–1) Hiroshi Ōshita (1), Seiji Sekiguchi (1) Wally Yonamine (1), Andy Miyamoto (2) Game 4 Thursday, October 31, 1957 – 1:36 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Game 5 Friday, November 1, 1957 – 1:32 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 1 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 6 13 0 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 8 1 Yukio Shimabara (1–0) Yoshinori Kido (0–1) Hiromi Wada 2 (2) Keishi Totoki (1), Tetsuharu Kawakami (1) See also 1957 World Series References Category:Japan Series Japan Series Japan Series Japan series Japan series