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Jusqu’au 18/08/1974, pour éviter le frappeur désigné des Buffaloes de Kintetsu Clarence Jones, le lanceur partant des Nippon-Ham Fighters, Naoki Takahashi, a été déplacé au 3e but, avant d’être ramené au monticule après que Jones ait obtenu un but sur balles. Takahashi a terminé le match et est devenu le seul lanceur à obtenir la victoire et le sauvetage dans le même match.


Jusqu’au 18/08/1974, pour éviter le frappeur désigné des Buffaloes de Kintetsu Clarence Jones, le lanceur partant des Nippon-Ham Fighters, Naoki Takahashi, a été déplacé au 3e but, avant d’être ramené au monticule après que Jones ait obtenu un but sur balles. Takahashi a terminé le match et est devenu le seul lanceur à obtenir la victoire et le sauvetage dans le même match.

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Par thecursedlexus

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  2. Madmanz1983

    I personally do not understand why teams today can’t use position players to pitch (bowl) like in cricket. Feels like you should be able to swap any player on the field for the pitcher and then move them back as long as they do not leave the game.

  3. Redbird530

    Why not just have the starter walk him????

  4. thecursedlexus

    *E: FIRST BASEMAN, NOT DH. The Pacific League didn’t adopt the DH until 1975. Mods this is an honest typo please don’t remove it. I will post this comment again if you do. This is not « clickbait », a positional typo is inconsequential to this story. I made it because Jones was the first DH in Kintetsu Buffaloes history.*

    Extended because I couldn’t fit it all in the title

    Clarence Jones was the man Takahashi feared and hated the most in those days, and was arguably the second-best foreign player of the 70s after Taiyo Whales second baseman John Sipin. After Takahashi tossed him two balls, Jones looked to have him right where he wanted him.

    So Fighters manager Futoshi Nakanishi went over the rules, and realized something, while taking Takahashi out of the game would mean he couldn’t be used again, if he had Takahashi play the field for an at-bat, he could step back out on the mound after Jones was dealt with.

    So that’s what they did.

    Isamu Nakahara was summonded from the pen to face Jones, and Naoki Takahashi took up position at 3^(rd) base. Third baseman Toshizo Sakamoto moved to shortstop, and shortstop Masatoshi Nakahara (no relation) was lifted from the game.

    Nakahara would finish the walk and Takahashi would take the mound again immediately after. Since Takahashi had started the plate appearance, the walk was credited to him. Sakamoto would move back to third base, and Kenichi Yaezawa would take over at shortstop.

    While the umpires allowed the whole thing to happen, they were clearly miffed by it, so when Jones stepped up to face Takahashi again in the 9^(th), Takahashi stayed in the game, and Jones homered off him.

    Still, the Fighters would end up winning the game 2-1 and Takahashi would become the first pitcher to record a win and a save in the same game.

    NPB would allow the stats to stand, but would tell the teams “haha, very funny, don’t do that again” and changed the rule in the offseason, so Takahashi would remain the only pitcher to record the win and the save in the same game.

    [Box Score of the Game](https://2689web.com/1974/KF/KF21.html)

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