2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season

This article is about the 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 2013 in baseball.
2013 NPB season
League Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport Baseball
Duration March 29, 2013 – November 3, 2013
Central League Pennant
League champions Yomiuri Giants
  Runners-up Hanshin Tigers
Pacific League Pennant
League champions Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
  Runners-up Saitama Seibu Lions
Climax Series
CL champions Yomiuri Giants
  CL runners-up Hiroshima Toyo Carp
PL champions Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
  PL runners-up Chiba Lotte Marines
Japan Series
Champions Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
  Runners-up Yomiuri Giants
Japan Series MVP Manabu Mima (RAK)

The 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 64th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.

Regular season standings

Central League regular season standings
Team G W L T Pct. GB
Yomiuri Giants 144 84 53 7 .613 —
Hanshin Tigers 144 73 67 4 .521 12.5
Hiroshima Toyo Carp 144 69 72 3 .489 17.0
Chunichi Dragons 144 64 77 3 .454 22.0
Yokohama DeNA BayStars 144 64 79 1 .448 23.0
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 144 57 83 4 .407 28.5
Pacific League regular season standings
Team G W L T Pct. GB
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 144 82 59 3 .582 —
Saitama Seibu Lions 144 74 66 4 .529 7.5
Chiba Lotte Marines 144 74 68 2 .521 8.5
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 144 73 69 2 .514 9.5
Orix Buffaloes 144 66 73 5 .475 15.0
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 144 64 78 2 .451 18.5

Climax Series

Note: All of the games that are played in the first two rounds of the Climax Series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advances if the round ends in a tie.

  First stage     Final stage     Japan Series
                           
  Central League     C1  Yomiuri Giants 4  
  C2  Hanshin Tigers 0     C3  Hiroshima Toyo Carp 0    
  C3  Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2         C1  Yomiuri Giants 3
      P1  Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 4
  Pacific League     P1  Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 4    
  P2  Saitama Seibu Lions 1     P3  Chiba Lotte Marines 1  
  P3  Chiba Lotte Marines 2  

First stage

The regular season league champions, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received byes to the championship round.

Central League

Hiroshima Toyo Carp (2) vs. Hanshin Tigers (0)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 12Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 8, Hanshin Tigers – 1Koshien Stadium3:3446,923[1] 
2October 13Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 7, Hanshin Tigers – 4Koshien Stadium3:0246,902[2]

Pacific League

Chiba Lotte Marines (2) vs. Saitama Seibu Lions (1)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 12Chiba Lotte Marines – 11, Saitama Seibu Lions – 1Seibu Dome3:2432,880[3] 
2October 13Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Saitama Seibu Lions – 15Seibu Dome3:1633,914[4] 
3October 14Chiba Lotte Marines – 4, Saitama Seibu Lions – 1Seibu Dome3:0133,832[5]

Final stage

The regular season league champions, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received a one-game advantage.

Central League

Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. Hiroshima Toyo Carp (0)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 16Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 3Tokyo Dome3:2745,107[6] 
2October 17Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 3Tokyo Dome2:2645,316[7] 
3October 18Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3Tokyo Dome2:3246,081[8]

Pacific League

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (4) vs. Chiba Lotte Marines (1)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 17Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium2:5524,332[9] 
2October 18Chiba Lotte Marines – 4, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:2524,097[10] 
3October 19Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:0024,396[11] 
4October 21*Chiba Lotte Marines – 5, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 8Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:3324,264[12]
* Postponed from October 20 due to rain[13]

Japan Series

Main article: 2013 Japan Series

PL Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (3)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 26Yomiuri Giants – 2, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 0Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:2025,209[14] 
2October 27Yomiuri Giants – 1, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:1625,219[15] 
3October 29Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 1Tokyo Dome3:2644,940[16] 
4October 30Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 6Tokyo Dome4:0744,968[17] 
5October 31Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 2Tokyo Dome3:4944,995[18] 
6November 2Yomiuri Giants – 4, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:1625,271[19] 
7November 3Yomiuri Giants – 0, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 3Miyagi Baseball Stadium3:1525,249

League leaders

Central League

Batting leaders
Stat Player Team Total
Batting average Tony Blanco Yokohama DeNA BayStars .333
Home runs Wladimir Balentien Tokyo Yakult Swallows 60
Runs batted in Tony Blanco Yokohama DeNA BayStars 136
Runs Wladimir Balentien Tokyo Yakult Swallows 94
Hits Matt Murton Hanshin Tigers 178
Stolen bases Yoshihiro Maru Hiroshima Toyo Carp 29

Pacific League

Batting leaders
Stat Player Team Total
Batting average Yuya Hasegawa Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks .341
Home runs Michel Abreu Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 31
Runs batted in Hideto Asamura Saitama Seibu Lions 110
Runs Dai-Kang Yang Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 93
Hits Yuya Hasegawa Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 198
Stolen bases Dai-Kang Yang Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 47
Pitching leaders
Stat Player Team Total
Wins Masahiro Tanaka Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 24
Losses Mitsuo Yoshikawa Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 15
Earned run average Masahiro Tanaka Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 1.27
Strikeouts Chihiro Kaneko Orix Buffaloes 200
Innings pitched Chihiro Kaneko Orix Buffaloes 2231⁄3
Saves Naoya Masuda Chiba Lotte Marines 33

2013 average attendance

Team Games Total Attendance Attendance Per Game
Yomiuri 41 1,666,044 40,635
Hanshin 43 1,654,301 38,472
SoftBank 41 1,350,604 32,942
Chunichi 40 1,111,064 27,777
Nippon-Ham 42 1,095,307 26,079
Seibu 41 881,118 21,491
Hiroshima 43 853,646 19,852
Orix 42 821,848 19,568
Yakult 39 731,778 18,764
Yokohama 43 781,426 18,173
Rakuten 40 675,880 16,897
Lotte 41 684,911 16,705

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References

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