Modified on November 4, 2024
Champion:YOKOHAMA BAYSTARS
Most Valuable Player: Masayuki Kurihara
Nov 3 at Yokohama Stadium (audience 33136)/b>
Game 6 was postponed from Nov 2 due to heavy rain.
The BayStars were back in their home ground among a full crowd with fans waiting for a miracle for the team
which finished 3rd in the league.
It's slugger who returned from MLB in the middle of this season, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo slammed a home run.
Masayuki Kurihara hit in a run, for the 5th game in a row, a Japan Series record.
The Hawks Yuki Yanagita homered a 2 run.
But that was all for the Hawks.
Tsutsugo cleared the base, brining 3 home.
The BayStars won 11 to 2 to become Japan Champion for the first time in 26 years, that's when skipper Daisuke Miura was still pitching.
Oct 31 at Fukuoka Dome (audience 36636)
The BayStars starting pitcher Andre Jackson had a shut out 7 innings.
Meanwhile in the 4th inning, Shugo Maki slammed a 3 run home run.
The BayStars won its 3 games in a row 7 to 0.
Oct 30 at Fukuoka Dome (audience 36623)
The BayStars Tyler Austin singled a home run. Then in the 7th inning Toshiro Miyazaki homered and Masayuki Kuwahara doubled.
It's a shut out win of 0 to 5 for the BayStars.
Oct 29 at Fukuoka Dome (audience 36736 )
In the first inning, Kensuke Kondo hit in a run to equalize.
The BayStars again took the leade on a home run by Haruhisa Kurihara and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo's sacrifice fly.
The BayStars won 4 to 2.
Oct 27 at Yokohama Stadium (audience 32953)/b>
In the first inning, Hotaka Yamakawa blasted a 2 run home run.
In the 3rd inning, Taisei Makihara recorded a 2RBI hit and dragged started Shinichi Onuki from the mound.
The Hawks won 6 to 3.
Oct 26 at Yokohama Stadium(audience 33147)
Kohei Arihara hit in 2 runs. In the 9th inning Kenta Imamiya and Rikuya Kurihara hit in runs to extended the Hawks lead.
In the end the Hawks won 5 to 3.
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