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Japanese High School Baseball Championship (1924–1940, 1947–present) Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (1925–present) Tigers – JBL (1936–1949), CL (1950–present) Meiji Jingu Stadium in Shinjuku, Tokyo Occupants: Tokyo Big6 Baseball League – all games (1926–present)
Tokyo Yakult Swallows fans at the right field bleachers Game night at the stadium, 2024. As the second-oldest baseball stadium in Japan, Meiji Jingu Stadium is one of the few professional stadiums still in existence where Babe Ruth played (the only other ones are Wrigley Field in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston, and Koshien Stadium in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan).
Es Con Field Hokkaido (エスコンフィールド北海道, Esukon Fīrudo Hokkaidō) is a baseball stadium located in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Japan.The ballpark is owned by and operated by Nippon Ham, which has used it as the home field for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) since its opening in 2023.
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 2021 season logo for interleague play sponsored by Nippon Life. Interleague play (セ・パ交流戦, Se・Pa kōryū-sen), officially titled Nippon Life Interleague Play for event sponsor Nippon Life, is an event consisting of 108 regular-season baseball games played between Central League (CL) and Pacific League (PL) teams in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Prior to the 1949 Japanese professional baseball reorganization, Hyojogawara Stadium in Sendai hosted various countryside Japanese Baseball League games beginning in 1948. [2] However, in October 1949, Miyagi Prefecture began redeveloping a nearby former Imperial Japanese Army training ground into Miyaginohara Sports Park, which would include a ...
Only once a Game 8 has been played in Japan Series history, where the Seibu Lions defeated the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 1986. In the event that Game 8 does not decide the series, the next game would be played at the stadium that hosted Games 3 through 5 after a day of rest, and games will continue until one team wins four games.
The Mariners and Athletics returned to the Tokyo Dome for a two-game series to begin the 2019 Major League Baseball season, with Ichiro retiring from professional baseball after the second game. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] On July 18, 2024, Major League Baseball announced that the 2025 MLB season will open with a two game series March 18-19 at Tokyo Dome ...