1992 MLB Japan All-Star Series

The 1992 MLB Japan All-Star Series was the fourth edition of the championship, a best-of-eight series between the All-Star teams from Major League Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), then-called All-Japan. For the first game, an exhibition matchup started against Nippon's Yomiuri Giants club - the first of its kind - at its home, Tokyo Dome.

MLB won the series by 6–1–1 ^[1] and Mark Grace was named MVP.

Results

Championship

Game	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
1	MLB All-Stars	11–00	Yomiuri Giants	Tokyo Dome
2	MLB All-Stars	09–04	All-Japan	Tokyo Dome
3	MLB All-Stars	03–01	All-Japan	Seibu Lions Stadium
4	All-Japan	10–03	MLB All-Stars	Tokyo Dome
5	Tie	00-00	Tie	Chiba Marine Stadium
6	MLB All-Stars	10–02	All-Japan	Koshien Stadium
7	MLB All-Stars	09–05	All-Japan	Tokyo Dome
8	MLB All-Stars	04–03	All-Japan	Tokyo Dome

Rosters

MLB All-Stars roster

Pitchers 37 Norm Charlton - (Cincinnati Reds) 21 Roger Clemens - (Boston Red Sox) 12 Mark Langston - (California Angles) 32 Dennis Martínez - (Montreal Expos) 29 Jack McDowell - (Chicago White Sox) 30 Gregg Olson - (Baltimore Orioles) 38 Bob Patterson - (Pittsburgh Pirates) 29 Greg Swindell - (Cincinnati Reds) 39 Bob Tewksbury - (St. Louis Cardinals) 31 Duane Ward - (Toronto Blue Jays)

Catchers 10 Darren Daulton - (Philadelphia Phillies) 14 Mickey Tettleton - (Detroit Tigers) Infielders 09 Carlos Baerga - (Cleveland Indians) 26 Wade Boggs - (Boston Red Sox) 07 Craig Biggio - (Houston Astros) 45 Cecil Fielder - (Detroit Tigers) 24 Travis Fryman - (Detroit Tigers) 17 Mark Grace - (Chicago Cubs) 23 Eric Karros - (Los Angeles Dodgers) 15 Dave Hollins - (Philadelphia Phillies) 01 Ozzie Smith - (St. Louis Cardinals)

Oufielders 05 Ron Gant - (Atlanta Braves) 24 Ken Griffey Jr. - (Seattle Mariners) 24 Shane Mack - (Minnesota Twins) 29 Rubén Sierra - (Oakland Athletics) 33 Larry Walker - (Montreal Expos) Coaching Staff 10 Tom Kelly - (Minnesota Twins) 29 Rod Carew - (California Angels) 51 Ron Perranoski - (Los Angeles Dodgers)

NPB All-Stars (All-Japan) roster

Pitchers 17 Hiromi Makihara (Yomiuri Giants) 18 Masumi Kuwata (Yomiuri Giants) 41 Hisanobu Watanabe (Seibu Lions) 46 Yusuyuki Kawamoto (Chiba Lotte Orions) 11 Hideo Nomo (Kintetsu Buffaloes) 22 Kazuhiro Sasaki (Yokohama Taiyo Whales) 11 Yukinaga Maeda (Chiba Lotte Orions) 19 Motoyuki Akahori (Kintetsu Buffaloes) 21 Kazutomo Miyamoto (Yomiuri Giants) 15 Toshiro Yufune (Hanshin Tigers) 13 Yasumitsu Shibata (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 15 Koki Morita (Yokohama Taiyo Whales) 23 Akihito Kaneishi (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 25 Koichi Taniguchi (Yomiuri Giants) 31 Katsuhito Mizuno (Yomiuri Giants) 15 Yoichi Okabayashi (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) 15 Katsuyoshi Murata (Fukuoka Daiei Hawks) 59 Hiroshi Ishige (Yomiuri Giants) 36 Kiyoshi Hashimoto (Yomiuri Giants) 18 Shinji Sasaoka (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) 41 Masaki Saito (Yomiuri Giants) 34 Koji Nakada (Hanshin Tigers) 34 Kazuhisa Kawaguchi (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) 11 Takehiro Ishii (Seibu Lions)

Catchers 22 Fujio Tamura (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 27 Tsutomu Itō (Seibu Lions) 22 Hiromoto Okubo (Yomiuri Giants) 27 Atsuya Furuta (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) 09 Shinichi Murata (Yomiuri Giants)

Infielders 06 Hiromitsu Ochiai (Chiba Lotte Orions) 07 Kenjiro Nomura (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) 10 Norihiro Komada (Yomiuri Giants) 03 Kazuhiro Kiyohara (Siebu Lions) 03 Hiroo Ishii (Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes) 08 Hiromi Mastunaga (Orix BlueWave) 08 Tatsunori Hara (Yomiuri Giants) 37 Daisuke Motoki (Yomiuri Giants) 45 Koichi Hori (Chiba Lotte Marines) 08 Atsushi Kataoka (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) 06 Kazunori Shinozuka (Yomiuri Giants) 36 Takahiro Ikeyama (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) 24 Takeshi Omori (Yomiuri Giants) 00 Hiroshi Sato (Yomiuri Giants) 08 Yuji Ono (Yomiuri Giants) 27 Akihito Fukuo (Yomiuri Giants)

Oufielders 01 Koji Akiyama (Seibu Lions) 44 Satoshi Takahashi (Orix BlueWave) 03 Makoto Sasaki (Fukuoka Nankai Hawks) 02 Tetsuya Iida (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) 03 Hiroshi Yagi (Hanshin Tigers) 00 Tsutomu Kameyama (Hanshin Tigers) 52 Shinji Inoue (Yomiuri Giants) 02 Terumitsu Kumano (Yomiuri Giants) 05 Tsuyoshi Shinjo (Hanshin Tigers) 12 Yoshihiro Nishioka (Yomiuri Giants) Coaching Staff 87 Masaaki Mori (Seibu Lions) -

References

1. "MLB Japan All-Star Series 1986-2004". MLB.com. Retrieved June 30, 2014.