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The Saitama Seibu Lions took home NPB's last monthly awards as Shinsaburo Tawata and Hotaka Yamakawa were named the Pacific League MVP pitcher and hitter, respectively, on Tuesday for the months of September and October combined. Both players also swept the PL awards for March and April earlier this year.
Yamakawa won for the fourth time in his career and second this season. He hit .333 while leading hte PL with 11 home runs and 28 RBIs. He was second in slugging average with .706 and on base percentage at .465, making his OPS 1.171.
Tawata went 4-0 in five starts and was second in the league with 35 innings pitched. He had only 17 strikeouts, but the lowest ERA among PL pitchers at 1.54 and earned a shutout against the Orix Buffaloes in that span.
Tawata and Yamakawa were both teammates at the high school level and in college at Fuji University. Yamakawa was a second-round draft pick in 2013 while Tawata was the first round pick in 2015.
This is the fourth and fifth times the Lions have won a Pacific League MVP award in 2018. Besides Tawata and Yamakawa winning in April, Takeya "Okawari-kun" Nakamura won his award in August.
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Central League MVPs:
Tomoyuki Sugano (Yomiuri Giants): 4-1, 3 SO, 49 IP, 44K, 1.10 ERA
Neftali Soto (Yokohama DeNA Baysars): .360/.445/.830, 14 HR, 31 RBI
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