1994 Japan Series

Japan 1994 Yomiuri Giants (4) Shigeo Nagashima 70–60, .538, GA: 1 Seibu Lions (2) Masaaki Mori 76–52–2, .594, GA: 7.5 October 22–29 Hiromi Makihara (YOM) Kazuhiro Kiyohara (SEI) Japan: NTV (Games 1,2,6),TV Asahi (Games 3-5), NHK BS1 (Games 1-6)USA: Prime/SportsChannel regional sports networks (one-week delay) USA: Ken Harrelson, Tom Paciorek, Wayne Graczyk Japan: NHK Radio 1, TBS (JRN), JOQR (NRN), NBS (NRN), Radio Nippon, NACK5 FM The 1994 Japan Series was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the 1994 season. The 45th edition of the Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the Pacific League champion Seibu Lions against the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants. The series was the eighth time the two franchises played each other for the championship. The Giants had advanced to the series due to their victory in the 1994 Central League tie-breaker game against the Chunichi Dragons. Because this year's edition of the Japan Series took place during the Major League Baseball strike that scuttled the entire postseason, including the World Series, it received much more attention than normal in the United States. Most memorably, the cover of the October 31 issue of Sports Illustrated featured Lions pitcher Hisanobu Watanabe along with the tagline "The World's Series", in the Lions' 11-0 win in Game One.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/toc/9456/index.htm Table of Contents, October 31, 1994 Issue SI Vault Sports Illustrated 2009-10-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20091123115433/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/toc/9456/index.htm 23 November 2009 dead Chicago-area Regional Sports Networks broadcast the game in English on a week delay basis, with Ken Harrelson being the lead broadcaster. This resulted eventually in Major League Baseball acquiring Japanese players upon the end of the strike. Two members of the winning Yomiuri Giants team -- Hideki Matsui (2009) and Dan Gladden (1987, 1991) -- also won a World Series. In order to accommodate television, select games would be played at night. This was the second Japan Series to feature night games after 1964 Japan Series although the night games were only on weekdays, and the first with a reduction in extra innings. The Series, which had an 18-inning limit before a tie game, adopted a 15-inning limit before Series night games were tied.Daily Yomuiri: Historic Series Should Spark Change Summary CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Seibu Lions (2) October 22 Seibu Lions – 11, Yomiuri Giants – 0 Tokyo Dome 2:57 46,177 http://bis.npb.or.jp/scores/nipponseries/linescore1994.html ja:1994年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 June 10, 2010 Nippon Professional Baseball Japanese October 23 Seibu Lions – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 1 Tokyo Dome 2:25 46,342 October 25 Yomiuri Giants – 2, Seibu Lions – 1 Seibu Lions Stadium 3:20 31,838 October 26 Yomiuri Giants – 5, Seibu Lions – 6 Seibu Lions Stadium 4:12 31,883 October 27 Yomiuri Giants – 9, Seibu Lions – 3 Seibu Lions Stadium 3:40 31,872 October 29 Seibu Lions – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3 Tokyo Dome 2:53 46,307 Matchups Game 1 Saturday, October 22, 1994 1:03 pm (JST) Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo Seibu SEI 0 1 3 0 0 0 7 0 0 11 10 0 Yomiuri YOM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Hisanobu Watanabe (1–0) Masumi Kuwata (0–1) Kazuhiro Kiyohara (1), Norio Tanabe (1) Game 2 Sunday, October 23, 1994 1:02 pm (JST) Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo Seibu SEI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 Yomiuri YOM 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 2 0 Hiromi Makihara (1–0) Kimiyasu Kudoh (0–1) Game 3 Tuesday, October 25, 1994 6:16 pm (JST) Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama Yomiuri YOM 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 1 Seibu SEI 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 1 Hiroshi Ishige (1–0) Takehiro Ishii (0–1) Masumi Kuwata (1) Game 4 Wednesday, October 26, 1994 6:15 pm (JST) Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama Yomiuri YOM 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 14 0 Seibu SEI 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 6 13 2 Takehiro Ishii (1–1) Masao Kida (0–1) Hideki Matsui (1), Hiromoto Okubo (1) Kazuhiro Kiyohara (2) Game 5 Thursday, October 27, 1994 6:15 pm (JST) Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama Yomiuri YOM 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 3 1 9 10 1 Seibu SEI 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 10 0 Masumi Kuwata (1–1) Kento Sugiyama (0–1) Sadaaki Yoshimura (1), Koichi Ogata (1), Henry Cotto (1) Kazuhiro Kiyohara 2 (4) Game 6 Saturday, October 29, 1994 1:01 pm (JST) Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo Seibu SEI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 0 Yomiuri YOM 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 3 10 0 Hiromi Makihara (2–0) Kimiyasu Kudoh (0–2) Henry Cotto (2) See also Nippon Professional Baseball References External links Nippon Professional Baseball—Official website (in English) Category:Japan Series Category:Seibu Lions Category:Yomiuri Giants Series Category:Events at Tokyo Dome Category:October 1994 sports events in Japan