1958_Japan_Series Knowpia

The 1958 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1958 season. It was the ninth Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Nishitetsu Lions, against the Central League champions, the Yomiuri Giants. The Lions won the series 4-3 after trailing 0-3 against the Giants before winning the next four games thus becoming the first team in the Japan Series to overcome a 3-0 series deficit.

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Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 11	Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 9	Korakuen Stadium	3:02	35,217^[1]
2	October 12	Nishitetsu Lions – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 7	Korakuen Stadium	2:21	35,953^[1]
3	October 14	Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 0	Heiwadai Stadium	2:00	31,575^[1]
4	October 16	Yomiuri Giants – 4, Nishitetsu Lions – 6	Heiwadai Stadium	2:17	27,044^[1]
5	October 17	Yomiuri Giants – 3, Nishitetsu Lions – 5	Heiwadai Stadium	2:34	25,193^[1]
6	October 20	Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 0	Korakuen Stadium	2:03	31,745^[1]
7	October 21	Nishitetsu Lions – 6, Yomiuri Giants – 1	Korakuen Stadium	2:23	20,961^[1]

Saturday, October 11, 1958 – 1:35 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nishitetsu	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	6	1
Yomiuri	1	0	1	1	0	0	6	0	X	9	16	0
WP: Takumi Ōtomo (1–0) LP: Kazuhisa Inao (0–1) Home runs: NIS: Yasumitsu Toyoda (1) YOM: Tatsuro Hirooka (1), Shigeo Nagashima (1)

Sunday, October 12, 1958 – 1:30 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nishitetsu	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	5	0
Yomiuri	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	7	7	1
WP: Shō Horiuchi (1–0) LP: Yukio Shimabara (0–1) Home runs: NIS: Yasumitsu Toyoda (2) YOM: None

Tuesday, October 14, 1958 – 2:02 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Yomiuri	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0
Nishitetsu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
WP: Motoshi Fujita (1–0) LP: Kazuhisa Inao (0–2)

Thursday, October 16, 1958 – 2:01 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Yomiuri	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	10	0
Nishitetsu	0	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	X	6	8	1
WP: Kazuhisa Inao (1–2) LP: Motoshi Fujita (1–1) Home runs: YOM: Tatsuro Hirooka (2) NIS: Yasumitsu Toyoda 2 (4)

Friday, October 17, 1958 – 2:05 pm at Heiwadai Stadium in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Yomiuri	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	0
Nishitetsu	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	4	6	0
WP: Kazuhisa Inao (2–2) LP: Takumi Ōtomo (1–1) Home runs: YOM: Wally Yonamine (1) NIS: Futoshi Nakanishi (1), Kazuhisa Inao (1)

Monday, October 20, 1958 – 2:10 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nishitetsu	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	2
Yomiuri	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
WP: Kazuhisa Inao (3–2) LP: Motoshi Fujita (1–2) Home runs: NIS: Futoshi Nakanishi (2) YOM: None

Tuesday, October 21, 1958 – 1:33 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo


Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nishitetsu	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	6	11	1
Yomiuri	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	3
WP: Kazuhisa Inao (4–2) LP: Shō Horiuchi (1–1) Home runs: NIS: Futoshi Nakanishi (3) YOM: Shigeo Nagashima (2)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 1958年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 [1958 Japan Series Results] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved April 21, 2010.