1991 Nippon Professional Baseball season

1991 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Regular Season
Season MVP	CL: Shinji Sasaoka (HIR); PL: Taigen Kaku (SEI)
League Postseason
CL champions	Hiroshima Toyo Carp
CL runners-up	Chunichi Dragons
PL champions	Seibu Lions
PL runners-up	Kintetsu Buffaloes
Japan Series
Champions	Seibu Lions
Runners-up	Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Finals MVP	Koji Akiyama (SEI)
NPB seasons
	← 1990 1992 →

Last updated March 03, 2019

The 1991 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 42nd season of operation for the league.

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" in Tokyo, founded 1934 and the original circuit for the sport in the Empire two years later - Japanese Baseball League (1936-1949), and surprisingly even continued to play through the dark years of total warfare with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and intervening in the Chinese Civil War in 1937 with the wider Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and into the greater World War II (1939-1945).

Regular season standings

Central League

Central League ^[1]	G	W	L	T	Pct.	GB
Hiroshima Toyo Carp	132	74	56	2	.569	--
Chunichi Dragons	131	71	59	1	.546	3.0
Yakult Swallows	132	67	63	2	.515	7.0
Yomiuri Giants	130	66	64	0	.508	8.0
Yokohama Taiyo Whales	131	64	66	1	.492	10.0
Hanshin Tigers	130	48	82	0	.369	26.0

Pacific League

Pacific League ^[2]	G	W	L	T	Pct.	GB
Seibu Lions	130	81	43	6	.653	--
Kintetsu Buffaloes	130	77	48	5	.616	4.5
Orix BlueWave	130	64	63	3	.504	18.5
Nippon-Ham Fighters	130	53	72	5	.424	28.5
Fukuoka Daiei Hawks	130	53	73	4	.421	29.0
Lotte Orions	130	48	77	5	.384	33.5

Japan Series

PL Seibu Lions (4) vs. CL Hiroshima Toyo Carp (3)

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 19	Hiroshima Toyo Carp - 3, Seibu Lions – 11	Seibu Lions Stadium	2:48	31,770^[3]
2	October 20	Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 4, Seibu Lions – 2	Seibu Lions Stadium	3:11	31,903^[3]
3	October 22	Seibu Lions – 1, Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 0	Hiroshima Municipal Stadium	3:37	27,713^[3]
4	October 23	Seibu Lions – 3, Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 7	Hiroshima Municipal Stadium	3:06	28,591^[3]
5	October 24	Seibu Lions - 0, Hiroshima Toyo Carp - 3	Hiroshima Municipal Stadium	2:51	28,669^[3]
6	October 26	Hiroshima Toyo Carp - 1, Seibu Lions - 6	Seibu Lions Stadium	3:03	31,900^[3]
7	October 28	Hiroshima Toyo Carp - 1, Seibu Lions - 7	Seibu Lions Stadium	3:20	32,011^[3]

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References

↑ 一般社団法人日本野球機構. "年度別成績 1991年セントラル・リーグ".
↑ 一般社団法人日本野球機構. "年度別成績 1991年パシフィック・リーグ".
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1991年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved February 13, 2018.

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[1] 一般社団法人日本野球機構. "年度別成績 1991年セントラル・リーグ".

[2] 一般社団法人日本野球機構. "年度別成績 1991年パシフィック・リーグ".

[js1991_linescores-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1991年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball . Retrieved February 13, 2018.

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