1982 Nippon Professional Baseball season

1982 1982 NPB season Nippon Professional Baseball Baseball Regular season CL: Takayoshi Nakao (CHU)PL: Hiromitsu Ochiai (LOT) Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award League postseason CL Central League Chunichi Dragons Yomiuri Giants PL Pacific League Seibu Lions Nippon-Ham Fighters Japan Series 1982 Japan Series Seibu Lions Chunichi Dragons Osamu Higashio (SEI) Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award List of Nippon Professional Baseball seasons NPB 1981 Nippon Professional Baseball season 1981 1983 Nippon Professional Baseball season 1983 The 1982 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 33rd season of operation for the league. This was the last season of the first-half/second-half playoff system for the Pacific League, which changed their system for 1983 that would see the first-place team play the second-place team in a playoff only if they finished within five games of each other (in contrast, the ten-season tenure of matching the champion of the halves saw two occasions where one team won both halves). As it never ended up being used until its dissolution in 1985, the next season in which either league had a playoff system until 2004. The Chunichi Dragons narrowly won the Central pennant by defeating the fifth-place Taiyo Whales, who they played three times to end the season and needed to beat twice.Pacific Stars And Stripes Archives, Oct 17, 1982, p. 22 https://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes-oct-17-1982-p-22/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251220054548/https://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes-oct-17-1982-p-22/ 2026-09-01 2025-12-20 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_1982.html 年度別成績 1982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. GBChunichi Dragons 130 64 47 19 .577 –Yomiuri Giants 130 66 50 14 .569 0.5Hanshin Tigers 130 65 57 8 .533 4.5Hiroshima Toyo Carp 130 59 58 13 .504 8.0Yokohama Taiyo Whales 130 53 65 12 .449 14.5Yakult Swallows 130 45 75 10 .375 23.5 Pacific League Pacific League一般社団法人日本野球機構 http://npb.jp/bis/yearly/pacificleague_1982.html 年度別成績 1982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 rankingSeibu Lions 130 68 58 4 .540 1 3Nippon-Ham Fighters 130 67 52 11 .563 4 1Kintetsu Buffaloes 130 63 57 10 .525 3 2Hankyu Braves 130 62 60 8 .508 2 5Lotte Orions 130 54 69 7 .439 6 4Nankai Hawks 130 53 71 6 .427 5 6 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. Terry Whitfield hit two home runs in the deciding Game 4 to send the Lions to the Japan Series.Pacific Stars And Stripes Archives, Oct 16, 1982, p. 23 https://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes-oct-16-1982-p-23/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251219041844/https://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes-oct-16-1982-p-23/ 2026-09-01 2025-12-19https://proeyekyuu.com/game/?GameID=GAME19821009SLNF0001 ProEyeKyuu March 6, 2026 Seibu Lions vs Nippon-Ham Fighters Climax Series - Final Stage 1982-10-09 Game 1https://proeyekyuu.com/game/?GameID=GAME19821010SLNF0002 ProEyeKyuu March 6, 2026 Seibu Lions vs Nippon-Ham Fighters Climax Series - Final Stage 1982-10-10 Game 2https://proeyekyuu.com/game/?GameID=GAME19821012NFSL0003 Nippon-Ham Fighters vs Seibu Lions Climax Series - Final Stage 1982-10-12 Game 3 ProEyeKyuu March 6, 2026https://proeyekyuu.com/game/?GameID=GAME19821014NFSL0004 Nippon-Ham Fighters vs Seibu Lions Climax Series - Final Stage 1982-10-14 Game 4 ProEyeKyuu March 6, 2026 Seibu Lions won the series 3–1. Seibu Lions (3) vs. Nippon-Ham Fighters (1) October 9 Nippon-Ham Fighters – 0, Seibu Lions – 6 Seibu Lions Stadium October 10 Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2, Seibu Lions – 3 Seibu Lions Stadium October 12 Seibu Lions – 1, Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2 Korakuen Stadium October 14 Seibu Lions – 7, Nippon-Ham Fighters – 5 Korakuen Stadium 24,000 Japan Series 1982 Japan Series Seibu Lions won the series 4–2. GameScoreDateLocationAttendance1 Dragons – 3, Lions – 7 October 23Nagoya Stadium 29,196http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1982.html ja:1982年日本シリーズ試合結果 Nippon Professional Baseball ja September 30, 20182 Dragons – 1, Lions – 7 October 24Nagoya Stadium 29,1943 Lions – 3, Dragons – 4 October 26Seibu Lions Stadium 25,3424 Lions – 3, Dragons – 5 October 27Seibu Lions Stadium 29,3235 Lions – 3, Dragons – 1October 28Seibu Lions Stadium 26,2306 Dragons – 4, Lions – 9October 30Nagoya Stadium 28,725 See also 1982 Major League Baseball season References Category:1982 in baseball Category:1982 in Japanese sport Category:Nippon Professional Baseball seasons