From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRVowZj9OO1YbKEI=?= )
Subject: pro baseball as of 1992.09.14
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The Tigers are in first place!
The Swallows have lost 6 in a row.

Lions		71 - 39 - 2	....	.278	3.45
Buffaloes	59 - 44 - 6	 8.5	.247	3.92
Blue Wave	51 - 58 - 4	19.5	.273	3.74
Hawks		51 - 61 - 1	21.0	.262	4.51
Fighters	49 - 60 - 2	21.5	.260	4.05
Marines		47 - 66 - 1	25.5	.240	3.94

Tigers		60 - 52 - 2	....	.253	2.95
Swallows	58 - 52 - 1	 1.0	.260	3.84
Giants		60 - 55		 1.5	.266	3.73
Carp		58 - 55		 2.5	.261	3.61
Whales		54 - 62 - 1	 8.0	.248	3.89
Dragons		50 - 64		11.0	.253	3.87

The Lion's magic number is 12.
The ties in the Pacific League will not be replayed.
The ones in the Central League will be.  (Rules are different)
So the Tigers will play at least 132 games this year.

This year's Pacific League rookies..
Although Wakatabe (Hawks) got most of the attention the following are
the people who are in the running for the Rookie of the Year award.

pitchers
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Wakatabe (Hawks)	23 games (9 - 10) 0s	3.79
Takamura (Buffaloes)	23 games (9 - 9) 0s	3.31
Kawamoto (Marines)	35 games (2 - 4) 18s	2.57

batters
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Kataoka (Fighters)	107 games 368 ab 109 h 9 hr .296

Personally I think Kawamoto should get it.  He plays for a lousy
team, and still does the job very well.  Although he isn't as
brilliant as he was at the beginning of the year, he is still one
of the best relievers in the Pacific League.  Also I would rate
Takamura ahead of Wakatabe too.  I have never seen Kataoka,
but his stats are pretty impressive.

batting
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Sasaki (Hawks)		.323	Howell (Swallows)	.335
Tanabe (Lions)		.321	O'Malley (Tigers)	.330
Nakajima (Fighters)	.306	Furuta (Swallows)	.318
Takahashi (Blue Wave)	.298	Komada (Giants)		.316
Ishige (Lions)		.297	Paciorek (Tigers)	.315
Matsunaga (Blue Wave)	.297	Maeda (Carp)		.313
Akiyama (Lions)		.297	Tatsunami (Dragons)	.312
Kataoka (Fighters)	.296	Sheets (Whales)		.311
Hori (Marines)		.291	Shoda (Carp)		.301

homeruns
--------
Destrade (Lions)	32	Howewll (Swallows)	30
Kiyohara (Lions)	32	Ikeyama (Swallows)	27
Bryant (Buffaloes)	31	Hara (Giants)		26
Takahashi (Blue Wave)	28	Komada (Giants)		25
Akiyama (Lions)		28	Furuata (Swallows)	25
Winters (Fighters)	28	Sheets (Whales)		23

pitching
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Ishii (Lions)		(12 - 3) 3s	1.91
Kaku (Lions)		(13 - 4)	2.49
Nomo (Buffaloes)	(13 - 7)	2.75
Shibata (Fighters)	(5 - 10)	3.05
Takamura (Buffaloes)	(9 - 9)		3.31
Nishizaki (Fighters)	(4 - 8)		3.31
Hoshino (Blue Wave)	(11 - 9)	3.42
Hasegawa (Blue Wave)	(5 - 7) 1s	3.44
Kaneishi (Fighters)	(13 - 9)	3.47
H.Watanabe (Lions)	(11 - 10)	3.49

Morita (Whales)		(14 - 5) 2s	2.08
Nakada (Tigers)		(12 - 8) 1s	2.35
Nakagomi (Tigers)	(8 - 8)		2.40
Saitoh (Giants)		(15 - 5)	2.60
Kitabeppu (Carp)	(12 - 7)	2.76
Yufune (Tigers)		(9 - 5)		3.19
Okabayashi (Swallows)	(11 - 8)	3.20

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Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering        doi@jrd.dec.com
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