# 1995 Japan Series

The 1995 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1995 season. It was the 46th Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Orix BlueWave, against the Central League champions, the Yakult Swallows. The series was the second time the two franchises played each other for the championship; however, the last time the two teams played, Orix was known as the Hankyu Braves. Played at Green Stadium Kobe and Meiji Jingu Stadium, the Swallows defeated the BlueWave four games to one in the best-of-seven series to win the franchise's 3rd Japan Series title. Regular-season MVP Tom O'Malley was named Most Valuable Player of the series. The series was played between October 21 and October 26, 1995, with home field advantage going to the Central League.

## Summary

CL Yakult Swallows (4) vs. PL Orix BlueWave (1)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
| 1 | October 21 | Yakult Swallows – 5, Orix BlueWave – 2 | Green Stadium Kobe | 3:14 | 32,486 |
| 2 | October 22 | Yakult Swallows – 3, Orix BlueWave – 2 | Green Stadium Kobe | 3:50 | 32,475 |
| 3 | October 24 | Orix BlueWave – 4, Yakult Swallows – 7 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 4:25 | 32,915 |
| 4 | October 25 | Orix BlueWave – 2, Yakult Swallows – 1 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 4:38 | 32,911 |
| 5 | October 26 | Orix BlueWave – 1, Yakult Swallows – 3 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | 3:14 | 33,112 |

## Matchups
### Game 1

Saturday, October 21, 1995 at Green Stadium Kobe, Kobe, Hyōgo :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Yakult | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 1 |
| Orix | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| WP: Terry Bross (1–0) LP: Yoshinori Sato (0–1) Sv: Shingo Takatsu (1) Home runs: YKS: Yuji Ono (1) ORX: None |||||||||||||

### Game 2

Sunday, October 22, 1995 at Green Stadium Kobe, Kobe, Hyōgo :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | R | H | E |
| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| Orix | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| WP: Futoshi Yamabe (1–0) LP: Masafumi Hirai (0–1) Home runs: YKS: Tom O'Malley (1) ORX: Doug Jennings (1) |||||||||||||||

### Game 3

Tuesday, October 24, 1995 at Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
| Orix | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| Yakult | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| WP: Shingo Takatsu (1–0) LP: Masafumi Hirai (0–2) Home runs: ORX: None YKS: Hensley Meulens (1), Takahiro Ikeyama (1) ||||||||||||||

### Game 4

Wednesday, October 25, 1995 at Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | R | H | E |
| Orix | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| Yakult | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| WP: Hiroshi Kobayashi (1–0) LP: Akimitsu Itoh (0–1) Home runs: ORX: Hirofumi Ogawa (1), Doug Jennings (2) YKS: None ||||||||||||||||

### Game 5

Thursday, October 26, 1995 at Meiji Jingu Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Orix | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Yakult | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| WP: Terry Bross (2–0) LP: Koichi Takahashi (0–1) Sv: Shingo Takatsu (2) Home runs: ORX: Ichiro Suzuki (1) YKS: Tom O'Malley (2) |||||||||||||