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Nippon Baseball League

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Established
1950 (74 years old)

First Recorded Event
2008-03-20

Current Season
2024

API Football ID
2

Sport
Baseball

Location
Japan

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Next Level Sports [2021]

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18/05	Hanshin Tige	1 - 0	Tokyo Yakult		5:00am
18/05	Orix Buffalo	8 - 3	Tohoku Rakut		5:00am
18/05	Yokohama DeN	3 - 2	Chunichi Dra		5:00am
18/05	Fukuoka Soft	3 - 2	Saitama Seib		5:00am
18/05	Hiroshima To	4 - 2	Yomiuri Gian		5:00am
18/05	Chiba Lotte	6 - 4	Hokkaido Nip		5:00am
19/05	Chiba Lotte	-	Hokkaido Nip		5:00am
19/05	Fukuoka Soft	-	Saitama Seib		5:00am
19/05	Hanshin Tige	-	Tokyo Yakult		5:00am
19/05	Hiroshima To	-	Yomiuri Gian		4:30am
Results
17/05	Yokohama DeN	2 - 1	Chunichi Dra
17/05	Orix Buffalo	3 - 5	Tohoku Rakut
17/05	Hiroshima To	2 - 0	Yomiuri Gian
17/05	Hanshin Tige	2 - 4	Tokyo Yakult
17/05	Fukuoka Soft	6 - 2	Saitama Seib
17/05	Chiba Lotte	1 - 1	Hokkaido Nip
16/05	Chunichi Dra	4 - 9	Hanshin Tige
15/05	Orix Buffalo	1 - 1	Chiba Lotte
15/05	Chunichi Dra	0 - 1	Hanshin Tige
15/05	Hokkaido Nip	12 - 3	Saitama Seib

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Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu) in Tokyo, founded in 1934, and the original circuit for the sport in the Empire two years later – Japanese Baseball League (1936–1949), and continued to play even through the final years of World War II.

The league that is today's NPB for Japan was formed when that sports organization reorganized in 1950, creating two leagues with six teams each in the Central League and the Pacific League with an annual season-ending Japan Series championship play-off series of games starting that year for the JPB along the lines of the American World Series tournament (held since 1903).


Seasons

2024		2023		2022		2021

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Teams

Chiba Lotte Marin		Chunichi Dragons		Fukuoka SoftBank		Hanshin Tigers
Hiroshima Toyo Ca		Hokkaido Nippon-H		Orix Buffaloes		Saitama Seibu Lio
Tohoku Rakuten Go		Tokyo Yakult Swal		Yokohama DeNA Bay		Yomiuri Giants

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