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The Yomiuri Giants (読売ジャイアンツ, Yomiuri Jaiantsu, formally Yomiuri Kyojingun (読売巨人軍)) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
March 25, 2022, for the Yomiuri Giants: Career statistics (through 2024) Win–loss record: 5–5: Earned run average: 2.18: Strikeouts: 148: Saves: 80: Holds: 14: Teams; Yomiuri Giants (2022–present) Career highlights and awards; NPB All-Star ; 2022 Central League Rookie of the Year
The Central League was founded in 1949 with eight teams: four holdovers from the previous Japanese Baseball League — the Chunichi Dragons, the Hanshin Tigers, the Yomiuri Giants, and the Shochiku Robins (formerly the Taiyō Robins) — and four new teams — the Hiroshima Carp, the Kokutetsu Swallows, the Nishi Nippon Pirates, and the Taiyō Whales.
The Swallows entered the Climax Series in 2009, and faced the Yomiuri Giants for the stage 1, which ultimately resulted in a 2–1 victory. Swallows advanced for their first time into stage 2 and faced the defending Central League champions, the Chunichi Dragons. The Swallows eventually lost against the Dragons by 2–4, ending their postseason.
In 1974, they beat the Chunichi Dragons, becoming the first Pacific League team to win the Series in ten years, as the Yomiuri Giants had claimed the prior nine titles behind the Oh–Nagashima attack. After beating the Dragons, their owners, Lotte Holdings, decided to hold their victory parade in Tokyo, which shocked fans in Sendai.
Horiuchi played for the Yomiuri Giants his whole career, from 1966 to 1983; he was an integral part of the team's ten Japan Series championships during that period (including nine in a row). His first season, he went 16–2 with a league-leading 1.39 earned run average , winning both the Eiji Sawamura Award and the Central League Rookie of the ...
Yomiuri Giants Stadium is a baseball stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The stadium, which holds 4,000 people, also serves as the training home of the Yomiuri Giants . The stadium is located within the Yomiuriland Amusement Park, and can be accessed by the Keiō-Yomiuriland Station or the Yomiuriland-mae Station .
Shinnosuke Abe (阿部 慎之助, Abe Shinnosuke, born March 20, 1979 in Urayasu, Chiba) is a Japanese former professional baseball player and current manager, who spent his entire 19-year career with Nippon Professional Baseball's Yomiuri Giants, serving as the team's captain from 2007 to 2014.