1990 Japan Series

The 1990 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1990 season. It was the 41st Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champion Seibu Lions against the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants. Seibu won the PL pennant for the seventh time in nine years to reach the series, and Yomiuri dominated the CL to return to the series after winning it the year before. Played at Tokyo Dome and Seibu Lions Stadium, the Lions swept the heavily favored Giants in four games to win the franchise's 10th Japan Series title. Seibu slugger and former MLB player Orestes Destrade was named Most Valuable Player of the series. The series was played between October 20 and October 24 with home field advantage going to the Central League.

1990 Japan Series
Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season
Seibu Lions (4) Masaaki Mori 81454, .643, GA: 12
Yomiuri Giants (0) Motoshi Fujita 8842, .677, GA: 22
DatesOctober 20–24
MVPOrestes Destrade (SEI)
FSAKaoru Okazaki (YOM)
Broadcast
TelevisionNTV (Games 1-2), TBS (Game 3), TV Asahi (Game 4), NHK ETV (Game 4), NHK BS-1 (All Games)
RadioNHK Radio 1, TBS (JRN), JOQR (NRN), NBS (NRN), Radio Nippon, NACK5
Japan Series

Summary

PL Seibu Lions (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (0)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 20Seibu Lions – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 0Tokyo Dome2:5846,008[1] 
2October 21Seibu Lions – 9, Yomiuri Giants – 5Tokyo Dome3:3646,153[1] 
3October 23Yomiuri Giants – 0, Seibu Lions – 7Seibu Lions Stadium2:4831,804[1] 
4October 24Yomiuri Giants – 3, Seibu Lions – 7Seibu Lions Stadium3:1531,804[1]

Matchups

Game 1

Saturday, October 20, 1990 at Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo
Team123456789RHE
Seibu300010001590
Yomiuri000000000031
WP: Hisanobu Watanabe (1–0)   LP: Hiromi Makihara (0–1)
Home runs:
SEI: Orestes Destrade (1)
YOM: None

Game 2

Sunday, October 21, 1990 at Tokyo Dome, Bunkyo, Tokyo
Team123456789RHE
Seibu2230001109130
Yomiuri020110010592
WP: Tetsuya Shiozaki (1–0)   LP: Masaki Saito (0–1)
Home runs:
SEI: Tsutomu Itoh (1), Orestes Destrade (2)
YOM: Kaoru Okazaki (1), Kazunori Shinozuka (1)

Game 3

Tuesday, October 23, 1990 at Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama
Team123456789RHE
Yomiuri000000000050
Seibu30000103X791
WP: Tomio Watanabe (1–0)   LP: Masumi Kuwata (0–1)
Home runs:
YOM: None
SEI: Koji Akiyama (1)

Game 4

Wednesday, October 24, 1990 at Seibu Lions Stadium, Tokorozawa, Saitama
Team123456789RHE
Yomiuri001011000381
Seibu00006010X7130
WP: Kuo Tai-yuan (1–0)   LP: Kazutomo Miyamoto (0–1)   Sv: Tetsuya Shiozaki (1)
Home runs:
YOM: Shinichi Murata (1), Masahiro Kawai (1)
SEI: None

See also

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