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The Swallows entered the Climax Series in 2009, and faced the Yomiuri Giants for the stage 1, which ultimately resulted in a 2–1 victory. Swallows advanced for their first time into stage 2 and faced the defending Central League champions, the Chunichi Dragons. The Swallows eventually lost against the Dragons by 2–4, ending their postseason.
The Yomiuri Giants (読売ジャイアンツ, Yomiuri Jaiantsu, formally Yomiuri Kyojingun (読売巨人軍)) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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 final stage was a best-of-six against the Yomiuri Giants, the Central League champion, being awarded a one-win advantage against the BayStars, the eventual winner of the first stage. The BayStars advanced to the 2024 Japan Series to compete against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks , the winner of the 2024 Pacific League Climax Series .
Yomiuri Giants – 4, Nankai Hawks – 0: Osaka Stadium: 2:11: 17,775 [1] Matchups. Game 1. Saturday, October 15, 1955 – 2:02 pm at Osaka Stadium in Osaka, Osaka ...
[1] [2] [3] Their designs were similarly used as the mascots of Lotte's other baseball team, the Lotte Giants of the KBO League. A former mascot of the team, Cool-kun, who was a penguin, was Mar-kun's friend and rival. He was retired by the team in 2016. [4] Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks: Hawk Family
Two members of the winning Yomiuri Giants team -- Hideki Matsui (2009) and Dan Gladden (1987, 1991) -- also won a World Series. This was the second Japan Series to feature night games after 1964 Japan Series although the night games were only on weekdays, and the first with a reduction in extra innings.
It was the ninth Japan Series and featured the Pacific League champions, the Nishitetsu Lions, against the Central League champions, the Yomiuri Giants. The Lions won the series 4-3 after trailing 0-3 against the Giants before winning the next four games thus becoming the first team in the Japan Series to overcome a 3-0 series deficit .
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