1979 Nippon Professional Baseball season

1979 1979 NPB season Nippon Professional Baseball Baseball Regular season CL: Yutaka Enatsu (HIR)PL: Charlie Manuel (KIN) Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award League postseason CL Central League Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yokohama Taiyo Whales PL Pacific League Kintetsu Buffaloes Hankyu Braves Japan Series 1979 Japan Series Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kintetsu Buffaloes Yoshihiko Takahashi (HIR) Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award List of Nippon Professional Baseball seasons NPB 1978 Nippon Professional Baseball season 1978 1980 Nippon Professional Baseball season 1980 The 1979 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 30th season of operation for the league. Regular season standings Central League Central League一般社団法人日本野球機構 http://npb.jp/bis/yearly/centralleague_1979.html 年度別成績 1979年 セントラル・リーグ | NPB.jp 日本野球機構 Npb.jp 2022-07-13 G W L T Pct. GBHiroshima Toyo Carp 130 67 50 13 .573 --Yokohama Taiyo Whales 130 59 54 17 .522 6.0Chunichi Dragons 130 59 57 14 .509 7.5Hanshin Tigers 130 61 60 9 .504 8.0Yomiuri Giants 130 58 62 10 .483 10.5Yakult Swallows 130 48 69 13 .410 19.0 Pacific League Pacific League一般社団法人日本野球機構 http://npb.jp/bis/yearly/pacificleague_1979.html 年度別成績 1979年 パシフィック・リーグ | NPB.jp 日本野球機構 Npb.jp 2022-07-13 G W L T Pct. 1st half ranking 2nd half rankingKintetsu Buffaloes 130 74 45 11 .622 1 2Hankyu Braves 130 75 44 11 .630 2 1Nippon-Ham Fighters 130 63 60 7 .512 3 4Lotte Orions 130 55 63 12 .466 4 3Nankai Hawks 130 46 73 11 .387 5 6Seibu Lions 130 45 73 12 .381 6 5 Pacific League playoff The Pacific League teams with the best first and second-half records met in a best-of-five playoff series to determine the league representative in the Japan Series. Kintetsu Buffaloes won the series 3-0. GameScoreDateLocation1 Buffaloes – 5, Braves – 1 October 13Osaka Stadium2 Buffaloes – 7, Braves – 4 October 14Osaka Stadium3 Braves – 1, Buffaloes – 2 October 16Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium Tuesday, October 16, 1979 2:00 pm (JST) Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Kintetsu KIN 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 7 1 Hankyu HAN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 3 Tetsuji Yamaguchi (1–0) Mitsuo Inaba (0–1) Yutaka Fukumoto (1) The Buffaloes prevailed in Game 3 for their first ever league pennant.https://proeyekyuu.com/game/?GameID=GAME19791016OBKI0003 Japan Series 1979 Japan Series Hiroshima Toyo Carp won the series 4-3. GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Buffaloes – 5, Carp – 2 October 27Osaka Stadium 25,121http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1979.html ja:1979年度日本シリーズ 試合結果 November 6, 2019 Nippon Professional Baseball Japanese https://web.archive.org/web/20100621012212/http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1979.html 21 June 2010 live2 Buffaloes – 4, Carp – 0 October 31Osaka Stadium 27,8483 Carp – 3, Buffaloes – 2 October 28Hiroshima Stadium 29,0324 Carp – 5, Buffaloes – 3 October 30Hiroshima Stadium 29,0575 Carp – 1, Buffaloes – 0 October 31Hiroshima Stadium 29,0906 Buffaloes – 6, Carp – 2 November 3Osaka Stadium 27,8137 Buffaloes – 3, Carp – 4 November 4Osaka Stadium 24,376 See also 1979 Major League Baseball season References Category:1979 in baseball Category:1979 in Japanese sport Category:Nippon Professional Baseball seasons