| 1959 Japan Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 24–29 | |||||||||
| MVP | Tadashi Sugiura (NAN) | |||||||||
| FSA | Masataka Tsuchiya (YOM) | |||||||||
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The1959 Japan Series was theNippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the1959 season. It was the tenthJapan Series and featured thePacific League champions, theNankai Hawks, against theCentral League champions, theYomiuri Giants.
PLNankai Hawks (4) vs. CLYomiuri Giants (0)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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| 1 | October 24 | Yomiuri Giants – 7,Nankai Hawks – 10 | Osaka Stadium | 3:13 | 30,038[1] |
| 2 | October 25 | Yomiuri Giants – 3,Nankai Hawks – 6 | Osaka Stadium | 2:33 | 30,288[1] |
| 3 | October 27 | Nankai Hawks – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 2 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:47 | 32,056[1] |
| 4 | October 29 | Nankai Hawks – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 0 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:23 | 32,266[1] |
Saturday, October 24, 1959 – 1:00 pm atOsaka Stadium inOsaka,Osaka Prefecture
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nankai | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | X | 10 | 19 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Tadashi Sugiura (1–0) LP:Taketoshi Yoshihara (0–1) Home runs: YOM: None NAN:Isami Okamoto 2 (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sunday, October 25, 1959 – 1:00 pm at Osaka Stadium in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nankai | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Tadashi Sugiura (2–0) LP:Motoshi Fujita (0–1) Home runs: YOM:Shigeo Nagashima (1) NAN: None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, October 27, 1959 – 1:00 pm atKorakuen Stadium inBunkyō, Tokyo
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nankai | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yomiuri | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Tadashi Sugiura (3–0) LP:Taketoshi Yoshihara (0–2) Home runs: NAN:Katsuya Nomura (1) YOM:Kazuhiko Sakazaki (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thursday, October 29, 1959 – 1:00 pm at Korakuen Stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nankai | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP:Tadashi Sugiura (4–0) LP:Motoshi Fujita (0–2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||