1965 Japan Series
Baseball championship series
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The 1965 Japan Series was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the 1965 season. The 16th edition of the Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the Pacific League champion Nankai Hawks against the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants. It was the first of nine consecutive Japan Series championships won by the Giants, a record that still stands.
| 1965 Japan Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 30 – November 5 | |||||||||
| MVP | Shigeo Nagashima (Yomiuri) | |||||||||
| FSA | Nobuyasu Morishita (Nankai) | |||||||||
Summary
CL Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. PL Nankai Hawks (1)
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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| 1 | October 30 | Yomiuri Giants – 4, Nankai Hawks – 2 | Osaka Stadium | 2:30 | 30,094[1] |
| 2 | October 31 | Yomiuri Giants – 6, Nankai Hawks – 4 | Osaka Stadium | 3:06 | 30,139[1] |
| 3 | November 3 | Nankai Hawks – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 9 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:32 | 32,151[1] |
| 4 | November 4 | Nankai Hawks – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 2 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:27 | 31,089[1] |
| 5 | November 5 | Nankai Hawks – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 3 | Korakuen Stadium | 2:22 | 26,803[1] |
Matchups
Game 1
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nankai | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Masaichi Kaneda (1–0) LP: Tadashi Sugiura (0–1) Home runs: YOM: Sadaharu Oh 2 (2), Isao Shibata (1) NAN: None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game 2
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yomiuri | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nankai | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WP: Miyata (1–0) LP: Miura (0–1) Home runs: YOM: Shigeo Nagashima (1) NAN: None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shigeo Nagashima delivered a home run in the tenth inning to give the Giants the go-ahead lead in a game where they rallied from a 4–0 deficit in the seventh inning.
Game 3
Game 3 was delayed a day due to rain.