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04/17/2006 Archived Entry: "Japanese Baseball News: Monday Report"

Japanese Baseball News: Monday Report

Japanese Baseball News: The Monday Report By Glenn Davies,Tokyo Japan

Central League News
sb20060417j1b (44k image)The Yomiuri Giants continued their hot start and look almost unbeatable at this stage. Even when the pitching falters in late innings the Giants have found a way back. Sundays 8-7 win over the Baystars. Lee and Kokubo continue to show consistent power and new addition Glover improved to 2-0 on the year.  The Dragons faltered in the chase, going down 2-1 to the Swallows and the Tigers have yet to get consistent starting pitching or hitting as yet as they fell to the Carp 2-1 on Sunday. The Tigers and Dragons will need to get a streak going if they are to stay in touch with the Giants and not make this a one team season. The Baystars have looked awful in most of their games in the season so far. More consistent hitting is needed as they regularly fail to score runners, a RBI scoring replacement at first for Saeki would be a good start...
Pacific League News
sb20060417j1a (37k image) The Marines showed some signs of life over the week and won  6-4 on Sunday for their eight of the year. The fact that it was against the league leading Lions made it all the more important as they needed to stop them from running away with the lead at this early stage. The Marines have started to hit and an even more impressive 14-5 win over the Lions on Saturday signaled their intent to defend their crown. Softbank has now gone 25 innings without scoring a run and fell to the Fighters for the second time over the weekend. Fighters pitching has been strong thus far and rookie starter TomoyaYagi pitched a 10 inning no hitter on Saturday. The Buffaloes also continued their strong start and legendary first baseman Kazuhiro Kiyohara hit his first HR of the season in a 2-1 win over the Eagles. 
Batting Leaders
@

Central

TeamAvg.ABHRRBI@

Pacific

  Team

Avg.ABHRRBI
1SheetsTigers.431595151FukuuraMarines.3887608
2LeeGiants.414684152Nakajima Lions.36575312
3KokuboGiants.396586193OgasawaraFighters.3437728
4KanemotoTigers.378583114GG SatohLions.33876315
5OchoaDragons.37244495InabaFighters.3337526
Pitching Leaders
@

Central

TeamERAWLSv@

Pacific

TeamERAWLSv
1UtsumiGiants0.562001SugiuchiHawks1.04300
2KawakamiDragons1.172002MatsuzakaLions1.13210
3PowellGiants1.592103DaveyBuffaloes1.35200
4IgawaTigers1.962104SaitohHawks1.52110
5FujiSwallows2.001105ShimizuMarines1.88120
Foreign Player Stats
PlayerTeamGmABAvg.HRRBI
CabreraHawks1775.28117
ZuletaHawks1876.254512
CabreraLions1880.275312
ShortEagles1766.33308
FrancoMarines1861.27314
AgbayaniMarines1981.276415
FernandezEagles1771.22658
MarciasFighters1671.27318
SeguignolFighters1876.25739
WoodsDragons1146.18927
OchoaDragons1144.37249
SheetsTigers1359.43157
RamirezSwallows1250.20425
RiggsSwallows834.20014
LaRoccaCarp1247.22537
PlayerTeamGmERAWLSv
BeirneMarines39.00120
ThomasFighters67.11000
LeeFighters33.00120
DaveyBuffaloes31.35200
SefariniBuffaloes37.36020
CarrascoHawks217.18020
GramanLions33.86200
MartinezDragons32.21120
GuttormsonSwallows23.46020
BaleCarp60.00004
DouglassCarp33.86120
RomanoCarp39.46000
BeverlinBayStars27.20000
KroonBayStars10.00000
GloverGiants35.94200
PowellGiants21.59200
OxspringTigers10.00000
 2006 Standings
CentralWLTPct%GB

Pacific

WLTPct%GB
Yomiuri Giants1221.857-Seibu Lions1260.667-
Chunichi Dragons641.6004.0Orix Buffaloes1071.5981.5
Hanshin Tigers751.5834.0Softbank Hawks981.5292.5
Yakult Swallows570.4176.0Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters990.5003.0
Hiroshima Carp491.3087.5Chiba Lotte Marines8110.4214.5
Yokohama Bay Stars292.1828.5Rakuten Eagles5120.2946.5

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