1958 Japan Series

Japan 1958 Nishitetsu Lions (4) Osamu Mihara 78 47 5 (.619), 1 GA Games ahead Yomiuri Giants (3) Shigeru Mizuhara 77 52 1 (.596), 5½ GA Games ahead October 11–21 Kazuhisa Inao (Nishitetsu) Motoshi Fujita (Yomiuri) The 1958 Japan Series was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the 1958 season. The ninth 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 seven games in a dramatic comeback that saw them lose the first three games before winning the next four, which included a walk off hit in Game 5 after trailing by a run in the 9th inning. They became the first NPB team to overcome a 3–0 series deficit. It was the first and only time a team recovered from a 3–0 series deficit until the 1986 Japan Series. Summary PL Nishitetsu Lions (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (3) October 11 Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 9 Korakuen Stadium 3:02 35,217 http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1958.html ja:1958年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 1958 Japan Series Results April 21, 2010 Nippon Professional Baseball Japanese https://web.archive.org/web/20100325032528/http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1958.html 25 March 2010 live October 12 Nishitetsu Lions – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 7 Korakuen Stadium 2:21 35,953 October 14 Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 0 Heiwadai Stadium 2:00 31,575 October 16 Yomiuri Giants – 4, Nishitetsu Lions – 6 Heiwadai Stadium 2:17 27,044 October 17 Yomiuri Giants – 3, Nishitetsu Lions – 5 Heiwadai Stadium 2:34 25,193 October 20 Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 0 Korakuen Stadium 2:03 31,745 October 21 Nishitetsu Lions – 6, Yomiuri Giants – 1 Korakuen Stadium 2:23 20,961 Matchups Game 1 Saturday, October 11, 1958 – 1:35 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 6 1 Yomiuri YOM 1 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 X 9 16 0 Takumi Ōtomo (1–0) Kazuhisa Inao (0–1) Yasumitsu Toyoda (1) Tatsuro Hirooka (1), Shigeo Nagashima (1) Game 2 Sunday, October 12, 1958 – 1:30 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 5 0 Yomiuri YOM 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 7 7 1 Shō Horiuchi (1–0) Yukio Shimabara (0–1) Yasumitsu Toyoda (2) Game 3 Tuesday, October 14, 1958 – 2:02 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture Yomiuri YOM 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Motoshi Fujita (1–0) Kazuhisa Inao (0–2) Game 4 Thursday, October 16, 1958 – 2:01 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture Yomiuri YOM 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 10 0 Nishitetsu NIS 0 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 X 6 8 1 Kazuhisa Inao (1–2) Motoshi Fujita (1–1) Tatsuro Hirooka (2) Yasumitsu Toyoda 2 (4) Game 5 Friday, October 17, 1958 – 2:05 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture Yomiuri YOM 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0 Nishitetsu NIS 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 4 6 0 Kazuhisa Inao (2–2) Takumi Ōtomo (1–1) Wally Yonamine (1) Futoshi Nakanishi (1), Kazuhisa Inao (1) Game 6 Monday, October 20, 1958 – 2:10 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 2 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 Kazuhisa Inao (3–2) Motoshi Fujita (1–2) Futoshi Nakanishi (2) Game 7 Tuesday, October 21, 1958 – 1:33 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo Nishitetsu NIS 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 6 11 1 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 3 Kazuhisa Inao (4–2) Shō Horiuchi (1–1) Futoshi Nakanishi (3) Shigeo Nagashima (2) See also 1958 World Series References Category:Japan Series Japan Series Japan Series Japan series