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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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28/04	Chiba Lotte	10 - 1	Tohoku Rakut		5:00am
28/04	Chunichi Dra	0 - 0	Hiroshima To		4:30am
28/04	Fukuoka Soft	3 - 2	Saitama Seib		4:00am
28/04	Hanshin Tige	4 - 3	Tokyo Yakult		5:00am
28/04	Hokkaido Nip	4 - 5	Orix Buffalo		4:00am
28/04	Yokohama DeN	2 - 6	Yomiuri Gian		5:00am
29/04	Yomiuri Gian	-	Tokyo Yakult		5:00am
29/04	Hokkaido Nip	-	Orix Buffalo		4:00am
29/04	Hiroshima To	-	Hanshin Tige		9:00am
29/04	Fukuoka Soft	-	Saitama Seib		4:00am
Results
27/04	Chiba Lotte	1 - 4	Tohoku Rakut
27/04	Chunichi Dra	4 - 6	Hiroshima To
27/04	Hanshin Tige	5 - 4	Tokyo Yakult
27/04	Fukuoka Soft	2 - 1	Saitama Seib
27/04	Hokkaido Nip	9 - 0	Orix Buffalo
27/04	Yokohama DeN	1 - 2	Yomiuri Gian
26/04	Yokohama DeN	7 - 2	Yomiuri Gian
26/04	Hanshin Tige	2 - 8	Tokyo Yakult
25/04	Yomiuri Gian	3 - 2	Chunichi Dra
25/04	Tokyo Yakult	9 - 8	Hiroshima To

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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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