Keiji Komada

Keiji Komada (駒田 桂二)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 8", Weight 143 lb.

• High School Higashi Commercial High School

• Born January 30, 1926 in Higashiosaka, Osaka Japan
• Died August 1, 2012

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Biographical Information

Keiji Komada played in Nippon Pro Baseball for 8 years.

Komada signed with the Osaka Tigers in 1949, and he had a 4.50 ERA in 6 games in his first season. He went 7-6 with a 3.52 ERA in 1950, and he was 11-13 with a 3.24 ERA in 1951. Komada crushed a homer against Naoaki Hayashi on July 25, but it was ruled that Hayashi had a balk, and the homer was cancelled. Komada was 9th in strikeouts in the Central League (between Hideo Fujimoto and Hiroyoshi Takano) and 8th in losses (tied with Shigeru Sugishita, Nobuo Oshima and Hiroshi Katayama). He had a 8-8 record with a 4.04 ERA in 1952, and he went 5-5 with a 3.07 ERA in 1953. Komada then recorded a solid 1.51 ERA in 28 appearances in 1954 (had he qualified, he would've been second to Sugishita in ERA), and he had a 2.51 ERA with a 5-4 record in 1955. He only pitched 5 games in 1956, and he announced his retirement.

Overall, Komada was 45-39 with a 3.10 ERA, struck out 264 and pitched 831 innings in 8 seasons in NPB.

Sources

• Wiki Japan