Tsuneo Horiuchi
Tsuneo Horiuchi 堀内 恒夫 | |
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Horiuchi in 2010 | |
Pitcher | |
Born: (1948-01-16) January 16, 1948 (age 76) Kōfu, Yamanashi | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
NPB debut | |
April 14, 1966, for the Yomiuri Giants | |
Last appearance | |
October 22, 1983, for the Yomiuri Giants | |
NPB statistics | |
Win–loss | 203–139 |
Earned run average | 3.27 |
Strikeouts | 1,865 |
Career statistics | |
Batting average | .172 |
Hits | 174 |
Home runs | 21 |
Run batted in | 82 |
Teams | |
As player
As manager
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Career highlights and awards | |
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Member of the Japanese | |
Baseball Hall of Fame | |
Induction | 2008 |
Tsuneo Horiuchi (堀内 恒夫, Horiuchi Tsuneo, born January 16, 1948)[citation needed] is a former professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, and a politician. A right-handed pitcher, in 2008 he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.[1]
Baseball career
Horiuchi played for the Yomiuri Giants his whole career, from 1966–1983; 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 Year award. He led the league in winning percentage and also in most bases on balls allowed.
He led the league in winning percentage again in 1967, going 12-2 to post an amazing two-year stretch of 28-4. That year he also threw a no-hitter, against the Hiroshima Carp. The next three seasons were all successful. but he again led the league in walks all three years. (Horiuchi also gave up 31 home runs in 1968 to lead the league.)
1972 was Horiuchi's finest season, as he went 26-9 with a 2.91 ERA and 26 complete games, again winning the Eiji Sawamura Award (this despite the fact he led the league in hits and home runs allowed). That year he also won the Central League MVP.
In 1974 Horiuchi led the Central League in complete games with 21.[citation needed]
Horiuchi finished his career with 203 wins, earning him a spot in Meikyukai.
He managed the Yomiuri Giants in 2004–2005 (the team went 133-144 under his leadership). He has also acted as a TV analyst for Giants broadcasts.
Politics
Horiuchi stood as a candidate of the House of Councillors election, 2010 for the LDP[2] but lost. Receiving 101,840 preference votes nationwide, he ranked 13th on the LDP list[3] – the party received only twelve proportional seats – and was thus the top replacement candidate for a possible kuriage-tōsen, i.e. the first candidate to be elected without an additional vote if an LDP proportional seat in the 2010 class of Councillors fell vacant. As a result, he became a member of the House of Councillors in the proportional representation segment of the class of 2010 in August 2013 as the replacement for Hirohiko Nakamura, who died on July 31, 2013.[citation needed]
Statistics
Year | No. | G | CG | SO | NoBB | W | L | S | W% | BF | IP | Hits | HR | BB | HBP | Ks | WP | Balks | R | ER | ERA |
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1966 | 21 | 33 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 2 | .889 | 714 | 181.0 | 125 | 5 | 69 | 4 | 117 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 28 | 1.39 | |
1967 | 18 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 2 | .857 | 609 | 149.0 | 126 | 7 | 59 | 1 | 82 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 36 | 2.17 | |
1968 | 40 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 10 | .630 | 845 | 206.2 | 153 | 31 | 105 | 4 | 142 | 4 | 0 | 81 | 76 | 3.30 | ||
1969 | 41 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 13 | .519 | 1004 | 236.2 | 211 | 21 | 107 | 6 | 160 | 6 | 1 | 94 | 82 | 3.11 | ||
1970 | 42 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 10 | .643 | 1130 | 282.2 | 202 | 22 | 103 | 7 | 228 | 2 | 0 | 82 | 65 | 2.07 | ||
1971 | 40 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | .636 | 924 | 226.0 | 183 | 18 | 82 | 6 | 155 | 7 | 0 | 83 | 78 | 3.11 | ||
1972 | 48 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 9 | .743 | 1282 | 312.0 | 292 | 34 | 95 | 3 | 203 | 3 | 0 | 110 | 101 | 2.91 | ||
1973 | 39 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 17 | .414 | 953 | 221.0 | 238 | 28 | 70 | 6 | 113 | 1 | 1 | 117 | 111 | 4.52 | ||
1974 | 46 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 1 | .633 | 1106 | 276.2 | 217 | 31 | 80 | 7 | 127 | 2 | 0 | 101 | 82 | 2.66 | |
1975 | 38 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 0 | .357 | 893 | 213.2 | 212 | 28 | 75 | 6 | 118 | 4 | 1 | 100 | 90 | 3.79 | |
1976 | 34 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 0 | .700 | 763 | 177.1 | 173 | 23 | 71 | 4 | 82 | 2 | 0 | 84 | 78 | 3.97 | |
1977 | 34 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | .526 | 657 | 151.1 | 163 | 20 | 53 | 5 | 86 | 3 | 0 | 81 | 77 | 4.59 | |
1978 | 35 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 0 | .571 | 829 | 201.0 | 190 | 22 | 59 | 3 | 113 | 1 | 0 | 86 | 79 | 3.54 | |
1979 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | .364 | 400 | 86.1 | 111 | 16 | 35 | 2 | 59 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 64 | 6.70 | |
1980 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 1 | .375 | 319 | 75.0 | 78 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 36 | 4.32 | |
1981 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .250 | 92 | 22.0 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 4.50 | |
1982 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 29 | 7.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3.86 | |
1983 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 79 | 19.2 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 4.12 | |
Career | 566 | 178 | 37 | 7 | 203 | 139 | 6 | .594 | 12628 | 3045 | 2725 | 323 | 1095 | 66 | 1865 | 48 | 3 | 1235 | 1106 | 3.27 |
References
- ^ Whiting, Robert, "Kawakami's philosophy as manager never wavered", Japan Times, 28 November 2013, p. 16, retrieved 28 November 2013
- ^ Parties pin poll hopes on sports star power
- ^ Yomiuri Shimbun, Councillors election special 2010, proportional results: Liberal Democratic Party
External links
- Official website[dead link] (in Japanese)
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
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