 | | BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON KINBOSHI KITES AT OSAKA SAILORS 08/23/1961 |  | | | | |
 | | BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON | | KINBOSHI KITES AT OSAKA SAILORS | | GAME ID: 8145 - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23RD , 1961 - GAME LOG | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | | Kinboshi Kites (54-41) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 1 | | Osaka Sailors (46-47) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | | |  | |
| Shimabukuro Stars as Kites Top Sailors, 5-3 | The Kinboshi Kites beat the Osaka Sailors by a score of 5-3. Kinboshi first baseman Sueo Shimabukuro deserved the lion's share of the credit. Shimabukuro went 4 for 5 with a home run and 3 singles. He scored 2 runs and drove in 3 for the Kites. Shigeto Kawakami earned the save for Kinboshi, his 1st. The winning streak has now reached 4 games for Kinboshi.
Shimabukuro had a timely hit for Kinboshi in the top of the seventh. With Kinboshi trailing 3-2, he turned a full count fastball into a 2-run home run. It was his 7th home run of the season, making it 4-3, Kinboshi.
"Say want you want about this team, they play nine innings hard," said Kinboshi manager Kaita Kurosawa.
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| KINBOSHI BATTING LINESCORE | | OSAKA BATTING LINESCORE | |
a - H. Kitamura pinch hit for Y. Kobayashi in the 5th
b - M. Kokubunji substituted for H. Kitamura in the 5th
c - R. Furukawa pinch hit for M. Watanabe in the 8th
BATTING
Triples: A. Yamamoto (6, 7th Inning off Y. Niwa, 0 on, 0 outs)
Home Runs: S. Shimabukuro (7, 7th Inning off Y. Niwa, 1 on, 0 outs) , K. Masuda (18, 7th Inning off Y. Niwa, 0 on, 1 out)
Total Bases: M. Takeno , A. Yamamoto 3 , S. Shimabukuro 7 , T. Shimabukuro 2 , K. Masuda 5 , K. Nojima 2 , T. Koyama
2-out RBI: K. Masuda
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: M. Takeno , Y. Kobayashi 2 , H. Kitamura , M. Kokubunji , K. Nojima
GIDP: K. Masuda
Sac Bunt: T. Koyama
Team LOB: 10
FIELDING
Errors: S. Shimabukuro (6)
Double Plays: 1 (Nojima-Masuda-Shimabukuro)
OF assists: 1 (Takeno(Anderson at home)) | | | a - I. Kaneda pinch hit for F. Iwamoto in the 7th
b - Y. Ishikawa pinch hit for A. Kaneshiro in the 8th
c - A. Uno substituted for Y. Ishikawa in the 9th
d - K. Ota pinch hit for W. Okazaki in the 9th
e - M. Hino pinch hit for G. Smith in the 9th
BATTING
Doubles: A. Smith (1, 3rd Inning off T. Koyama, 0 on, 0 outs)
Home Runs: B. Matsumura (5, 2nd Inning off T. Koyama, 0 on, 0 outs)
Total Bases: K. Shirai , F. Anderson , B. Matsumura 5 , K. Ota , A. Smith 2
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: W. Okazaki , Z. Miyamoto
GIDP: Y. Ishikawa
Team LOB: 5
FIELDING
Double Plays: 1 (Shirai-Smith-Shirai) | | |
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| KINBOSHI PITCHING LINESCORE | | OSAKA PITCHING LINESCORE | |
| Player | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | PI | ERA | | T. Koyama W (9-3) | 6.0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 97 | 3.19 | | M. Watanabe H (10) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.23 | | S. Kawakami SV (1) | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0.00 | | | | Player | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | PI | ERA | | A. Smith | 5.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 103 | 4.90 | | Y. Niwa L (3-4), BS (6) | 1.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 6.26 | | F. Iwamoto | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4.01 | | K. Kodama | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 3.83 | | |
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| GAME NOTES |
Player of the Game: Sueo Shimabukuro
Ballpark: Kotei Stadium
Weather: Partly Cloudy (82 degrees), wind blowing in from right at 7 mph
Start Time: 7:05 PM JST
Time: 2:52
Attendance: 19661 |
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