Tsuneo Horiuchi
| Tsuneo Horiuchi 堀内 恒夫 |
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Born: January 16, 1948 Kōfu, Yamanashi |
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| NPB debut | |||
| April 14, 1966, for the Yomiuri Giants | |||
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| October 22, 1983, for the Yomiuri Giants | |||
| NPB statistics | |||
| Win–Loss | 203–139 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.27 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,865 | ||
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| Member of the Japanese | |||
 Baseball Hall of Fame
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| Inducted | 2008 | ||
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Tsuneo Horiuchi (堀内 恒夫 Horiuchi Tsuneo?, born January 16, 1948, in Kōfu, Yamanashi) is a former professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, and a politician. A right-handed pitcher, in 2008 he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Horiuchi played for the Yomiuri Giants his whole career, from 1966–1983; he was an integral part of the team's ten Japan Series championships during that period (including nine in a row).
His first season he went 16-2 with a league-leading 1.39 earned run average, winning both the Eiji Sawamura Award and the Central League Rookie of the Year award. He led the league in winning percentage and also in most bases on balls allowed.
He led the league in winning percentage again in 1967, going 12-2 to post an amazing two-year stretch of 28-4. That year he also threw a no-hitter, against the Hiroshima Carp. The next three seasons were all successful. but he again led the league in walks all three years. (Horiuchi also gave up 31 home runs in 1968 to lead the league.)
1972 was Horiuchi's finest season, as he went 26-9 with a 2.91 ERA and 26 complete games, again winning the Eiji Sawamura Award (this despite the fact he led the league in hits and home runs allowed). That year he also won the Central League MVP.
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