Takashi Ishii (baseball)
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Takashi Ishii (石井 貴 Ishii Takashi?, born 25 August 1971) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and coach. He pitched for 14 seasons for the Seibu Lions and made three All-Star teams. His brother Akio Ishii was drafted in 1986 but never made it into Nippon Pro Baseball.
Takashi Ishii played for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Yokohama in the industrial leagues out of high school. While with Mitsubishi, he was timed at 94 mph. Seibu drafted him in the first round in 1993. In 1994, the rookie was roughed up for 14 hits and 13 runs in 6 2/3 innings for Seibu. He improved to 2-2, 4.03 as a swingman in 1995 but allowed a .304 average.
In 1996, Ishii was 3-6 with four saves and a 2.93 ERA. Among Lions hurlers with 50+ innings, only closer Tetsuya Shiozaki had a better ERA. Takashi was 10-8 with nine saves and a 3.61 ERA in 59 outings in 1997. He was second on Seibu in appearances after LOOGY Takehiro Hashimoto, tied Shinji Mori for the most saves and tied Kiyoshi Toyoda for third in wins. He made the Pacific League All-Star team for the first time. He allowed eight hits and four runs (three earned) in 5 2/3 IP in the 1997 Japan Series, but the team fell to the Yakult Swallows.
The Kanagawa native was 9-3 with a 3.29 ERA in 1998 while moving primarily into the rotation. He tied Tomohiro Kuroki for second in the circuit in ERA behind Satoru Kanemura but failed to make the All-Star team. He started and won game four of the 1998 Japan Series after relieving in game two; he was 1-0 with a 2.61 ERA and 0.67 WHIP for the Series, which Seibu dropped to the Yokohama BayStars in six games.
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