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The Chunichi Dragons (中日ドラゴンズ, Chūnichi Doragonzu) are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball .
The Central League was founded in 1949 with eight teams: four holdovers from the previous Japanese Baseball League — the Chunichi Dragons, the Hanshin Tigers, the Yomiuri Giants, and the Shochiku Robins (formerly the Taiyō Robins) — and four new teams — the Hiroshima Carp, the Kokutetsu Swallows, the Nishi Nippon Pirates, and the Taiyō Whales.
The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 75th season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950 and the 90th anniversary of the founding of professional baseball in Japan. There were 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League.
The first live baseball of the 2025 MLB season have officially begun with the start of spring training games Thursday when the Chicago Cubs met the Los Angeles Dodgers in Arizona. The action ...
Won 2004 Japan Series 4–3 over the Chunichi Dragons: 2005* Chiba Lotte Marines: 84: 49: 3: Won 2005 Japan Series 4–0 over the Hanshin Tigers: 2006* Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters: 82: 54: 0: Won 2006 Japan Series 4–1 over the Chunichi Dragons: 2007: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters: 79: 60: 5: Lost 2007 Japan Series 1–4 to the Chunichi ...
The Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Game is an annual baseball series of All-Star Games (in most years, two games are played, but three such games can and have been played as well) between players from the Central League and the Pacific League, currently selected by a combination of fans, players, coaches, and managers.
The Japan Series (日本シリーズ Nippon Shiriizu, officially the Japan Championship Series, プロ野球日本選手権シリーズ Puro Yakyū Nippon Senshuken Shiriizu), [1] also the Nippon Series, [2] [3] is the annual championship series in Nippon Professional Baseball, the top baseball league in Japan.
Retired in 2003, Lions manager from 2004 to 2007, Marines manager from 2013 to 2017. Current Chunichi Dragons head coach. Hisanobu Watanabe: P: Winning Percentage title 1986, 1988, 1990, ERA Title 1986, Strikeout title 1986, Golden Glove 1990, No-hitter 1996: Played for Yakult Swallows in 1998, retired from NPB after '98 season. Lions manager ...