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27-593: Muramatsu (written: 村松 ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arihito Muramatsu ( 村松 有人 , born 1972) , Japanese baseball player Chihiro Muramatsu , Japanese female tennis player Haruki Muramatsu , Japanese darts player Jun Muramatsu Osamu Muramatsu ( 村松 修 ) , Japanese astronomer Muramatsu Shōfu Taisuke Muramatsu , Japanese football player Tomomi Muramatsu Yukinori Muramatsu ( 村松 幸典 , born 1969) , Japanese footballer See also [ edit ] 5606 Muramatsu ,
54-705: A Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe , Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka , Osaka Prefecture , Japan. The team plays in the Pacific League and is under ownership by Orix , a financial services company founded in Osaka. The combined team began play in 2005. The Buffaloes split home games between Kyocera Dome Osaka ,
81-587: A bronze medal. On February 6, 2015, he was appointed as Japan national baseball team's outfield defense and base running coach for the GLOBAL BASEBALL MATCH 2015 Samurai Japan vs. Europe. This biographical article relating to a Japanese baseball outfielder is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Japanese Olympic medalist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Orix Buffaloes The Orix Buffaloes ( オリックス・バファローズ , Orikkusu Bafarōzu ) are
108-491: A main-belt asteroid Muramatsu, Niigata (村松町), a town located in Nakakanbara District, Niigata, Japan Muramatsu Flutes , a Japanese company that manufactures flutes [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Muramatsu . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to
135-726: A row from 1975, against the Tokyo Giants in 1976 and 1977, led by manager Toshiharu Ueda . At that time, many good players in Japanese baseball history played for the Hankyu Braves, including pitcher Hisashi Yamada and outfielder Yutaka Fukumoto . In the 1980s, the team still was a strong contender in the Pacific League, but lost the PL pennant to the Seibu Lions every year except 1984; that year,
162-679: Is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder , and current the first squad hitting corch for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, Fukuoka SoftBank and the Orix Buffaloes . On November 24, 1990, Muramatsu was drafted 6th round pick by the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in the 1990 Nippon Professional Baseball draft . He made his debut in
189-720: The Boston Red Sox that offseason. In 2023, an 86-53-4 record yielded them their 3rd straight Pacific League pennant, alongside Yamamoto winning his 3rd consecutive Triple Crown. They swept the Chiba Lotte Marines in the final stage of the Climax Series to make their third Japan Series appearance. But, the Buffaloes were defeated by the Hanshin Tigers in seven games. Yoshinobu Yamamoto 's posting to MLB proved to be too much for
216-586: The Pacific League during the 1992 season, playing in 39 games. In the 1996 season, he led the Pacific League with 58 steals to win the Pacific League stolen base leader and Pacific League Best Nine Award . On July 1, 2003, Muramatsu recorded a hit for the cycle. Atsunori Inaba of the Yakult Swallows also recorded a hit for the cycle on the same day, the first time in NPB history. He also finished fifth all-time in NPB records with 13 triples. And he had won
243-611: The Seattle Mariners and led the Mariners to a 116 win season , the most wins by an American League team. Following the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment , the BlueWave merged with the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes . The team struggled since its merger, only finishing in the top half (or A Class) of the Pacific league once from 2005 to 2013. In 2008, The Buffaloes finished second in
270-631: The Tokyo Yakult Swallows in six games. In 2022, despite a rough start to the season, the Buffaloes finished 1st after a 5–2 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on the final day of the Pacific League regular season, combined with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks losing to the Marines, 5–2, at the same time the game was happening, and also because they had 5 more wins against the Hawks during
297-657: The Braves fell to the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in the Japan Series in seven games. On October 19, 1988, Hankyu Railway sold the franchise to the lease company Orient Lease (since 1989 known as Orix Group), in what was known as "the longest day of the Pacific League". The reason is that when the franchise sale occurred, the Kintetsu Buffaloes played the legendary "10.19" double-header for the Pacific League pennant, only to miss
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#1732884952899324-403: The Braves' cheering squad (応援団 ouendan ) said that "the race was decided before the gun even went off". Another thing that did not make sense to fans was they were named BlueWave while playing in then-named Green Stadium (now Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium ) in a city whose official color is green. However, since Nishinomiya and Kobe are close to one another, and the new home field of the team
351-810: The Buffaloes to handle, as without their legendary ace, the Buffaloes fell to a record of 63-77-3, ending the year in 5th place. Following that season, manager Satoshi Nakajima announced he was stepping down after he failed to guide the Buffaloes to their 4th straight pennant. He was replaced with Mamoru Kishida . Pitchers Catchers Infielders Outfielders Manager Coaches Catchers Outfielders Manager Coaches Elected mainly for Hankyu Braves service Elected for service with other teams, as well as Hankyu and Orix Elected mainly for Kintetsu Buffaloes service as Orix Buffaloes as Orix BlueWave as Kintetsu (and Osaka Kintetsu) Buffaloes as Hankyu (and Orix) Braves Active: Former: The Buffaloes' current theme song
378-621: The Japanese Golden Glove award in outfield from 2003 to 2004. Starting in the 2004 season he exercised his free agent rights and joined the Orix Buffaloes , where he played for five seasons until the 2008 season. In the 2009 season, Muramatsu returned to the Hawks in a trade for Naoyuki Ohmura , played two seasons, and retired after the 2010 season. Muramatsu played in 1673 games during his 20-season career, batting average .277 with 1380 hits , 18 home runs , 393 RBI , and 270 stolen bases . After his retirement, Muramatsu became
405-669: The Pacific League, going 75–68–1 and finishing 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the Saitama Seibu Lions , but were swept by the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters at home in the first stage of the Climax Series . After two seasons of finishing last in the Pacific League, they finished first in 2021, going 70–55–18. They swept the Chiba Lotte Marines in the final stage of the Climax Series to make their first Japan Series appearance since 1996. Ultimately, they were defeated by
432-523: The big companies that would never need to do such a thing. The sale was also a surprise, given that prior to Hankyu founder Ichizo Kobayashi 's death in 1957, he decreed that under any circumstances, Hankyu must never sell the Braves and the Takarazuka Revue , both of which were passion projects of his. As it turned out, however, the Braves had to be sold in order for Hankyu to keep the Revue afloat. The sale
459-704: The club's all-time record is 5,543–5,297–410 (.511). The franchise that eventually became the Orix Buffaloes was founded in 1936 under the ownership of a Japanese railway company Hanshin Kyuko Railway Company ( 阪神急行電鉄 , Hanshin Kyuko Dentetsu , present: Hankyu Hanshin Holdings , Inc.) , as Osaka Hankyu Baseball Club ( 大阪阪急野球協会 , Ōsaka hankyū yakyū kyōkai ) . Later nicknamed the Hankyu Braves , it
486-785: The home of the original Buffaloes franchise, and Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium , the former home of the BlueWave, when the Hanshin Tigers have to use Kyocera Dome. The Tigers' main home stadium, Hanshin Koshien Stadium , is used for the two biggest high-school tournaments in Japan, the Senbatsu in March, coliding with the opening of the NPB season, and during the Japanese High School Baseball Championship in August. Through 2022,
513-445: The link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muramatsu&oldid=1018296939 " Categories : Surnames Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arihito Muramatsu Arihito Muramatsu (村松 有人, born December 12, 1972)
540-491: The mid-1960s, the Braves became one of the dominant teams not only in the Pacific League but in all of Japanese professional baseball. Between 1967 and 1972, the Hankyu Braves won the Pacific League pennant five times but lost the Japan Series each time against the Yomiuri Giants . Manager Yukio Nishimoto was known as "the great manager in tragedy" because of those losses. But the Hankyu Braves won Japan Series three times in
567-453: The pennant out because of the second game ending in a tie. For Kintetsu to win the pennant, they had to win both games in the doubleheader against the Lotte Orions . The sale was a surprise; at that time, it was much rarer for a Japanese professional baseball team to change owners, not to mention for a large company to sell one of its parts. In that case, Hankyu Railway was thought of as one of
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#1732884952899594-571: The regular season, 15–10. The Buffaloes would defeat the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in the Final Stage of the 2022 Pacific League Climax Series, 4 games to 1, which set up a rematch of the previous year's Japan Series, but this time the Buffaloes would exact revenge on the Swallows, defeating them 4 games to 2. Following that campaign, Masataka Yoshida requested to be posted to MLB, and signed with
621-501: The scout in charge of the Tokai region for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. He had been the third squad outfield defense and base coach since the 2014 season and the first squad outfield defense and base coach since the 2017 season. He was transferred to the first squad hitting coach since the 2024 season. Muramathu joined the Japan national baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics , and won
648-461: Was better than the old one, most fans accepted the move, although with some nostalgia for the historic "Braves" name. The team was sometimes called Aonami or Seiha ( 青波 ) by fans and the baseball media, which means "blue wave" in Japanese. Led by Ichiro Suzuki in 1995 and 1996, the Orix BlueWave won the Pacific League pennant. In 1996, they also won the Japan Series . In 2001, Suzuki moved to
675-405: Was not allowed. What made it worse was in that second poll, "Thunder" was the winning name, which fit the new color scheme (when Orix bought the team, they changed their colors from black and red to navy blue and gold), and because the team's batting lineup was named Blue Thunder ( ブルーサンダー , Burūsandā ) . But, Orix went with "BlueWave". Longtime fans were shocked by these changes. One member of
702-661: Was not without two assurances: the team name would remain "Braves", and the franchise would stay in Nishinomiya . During the first two years of new ownership, the team was known as the Orix Braves and played in Nishinomiya. In 1991, the team moved to Kobe and became the Orix BlueWave . Orix put out a poll to decide the new name, and unsurprisingly, people voted Braves. It was said that Orix put out another poll and told fans "Braves"
729-518: Was one of the first professional baseball teams in Japan, and the oldest surviving team in the Pacific League . In the early 1950s, the franchise made a dedicated effort to attract foreign talent, particularly African-American veterans of Negro league baseball , including infielders John Britton and Larry Raines , and pitchers Jimmy Newberry and Jonas Gaines . These players were the first Americans other than Wally Yonamine to play Nippon Professional Baseball after World War II . Starting in
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