Toru Ohata

Toru Ohata (大畑 徹)

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 10", Weight 176 lb.

• School Kyushu Sangyo University
• High School Fukuoka Daiichi High School

• Born January 10, 1961 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Japan

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Biographical Information

Toru Ohata dominated the Fukuoka Big6 Baseball League, and he was 50-2 with 5 MVPs and 6 Best Nine Awards in 4 years (Japanese colleges play two seasons a year). He also completed the first perfect game of the league against Kyushu Dental University on April 17, 1982. He was drafted by the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in the first round of the 1982 NPB draft, but he only pitched 4 games combined in his first two seasons. He was 0-2 with a 6.48 ERA in 1985, and the Whales traded him with Tsugio Kanazawa to the Nippon Ham Fighters for Masami Takahashi and Isamu Kida. Ohata allowed 8 runs in 5 1/3 innings in 1986, and he announced his retirement in 1987.

Sources

• Wiki Japan