1958 Japan Series

The 1958 Japan Series was the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) championship series for the 1958 season. It was the ninth Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Nishitetsu Lions, against the Central League champions, the Yomiuri Giants. The Lions won the series 4–3 after trailing 0–3 against the Giants before winning the next four games thus becoming the first team in the Japan Series to overcome a 3-0 series deficit.

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Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 11	Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 9	Korakuen Stadium	3:02	35,217^[1]
2	October 12	Nishitetsu Lions – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 7	Korakuen Stadium	2:21	35,953^[1]
3	October 14	Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 0	Heiwadai Stadium	2:00	31,575^[1]
4	October 16	Yomiuri Giants – 4, Nishitetsu Lions – 6	Heiwadai Stadium	2:17	27,044^[1]
5	October 17	Yomiuri Giants – 3, Nishitetsu Lions – 5	Heiwadai Stadium	2:34	25,193^[1]
6	October 20	Nishitetsu Lions – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 0	Korakuen Stadium	2:03	31,745^[1]
7	October 21	Nishitetsu Lions – 6, Yomiuri Giants – 1	Korakuen Stadium	2:23	20,961^[1]

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Nishitetsu	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	6	1
Yomiuri	1	0	1	1	0	0	6	0	X	9	16	0
WP: Takumi Ōtomo (1–0) LP: Kazuhisa Inao (0–1) Home runs: NIS: Yasumitsu Toyoda (1) YOM: Tatsuro Hirooka (1), Shigeo Nagashima (1)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Yomiuri	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	10	0
Nishitetsu	0	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	X	6	8	1
WP: Kazuhisa Inao (1–2) LP: Motoshi Fujita (1–1) Home runs: YOM: Tatsuro Hirooka (2) NIS: Yasumitsu Toyoda 2 (4)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Yomiuri	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	0
Nishitetsu	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	4	6	0
WP: Kazuhisa Inao (2–2) LP: Takumi Ōtomo (1–1) Home runs: YOM: Wally Yonamine (1) NIS: Futoshi Nakanishi (1), Kazuhisa Inao (1)

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