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Nippon Baseball League

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Established
1950 (76 years old)

First Recorded Event
2008-03-20

Current Season
2026

Current Round


Sport
Baseball

Location
Japan

Gender
Male

TV Rights
US - Next Level Sports [2021]

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		Upcoming
18 Jul 26	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines	9:00am	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
18 Jul 26	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp	9:00am	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers
18 Jul 26	Tohoku RTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	9:00am	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions
18 Jul 26	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	9:00am	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows
19 Jul 26	Orix BufOrix Buffaloes	4:00am	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
19 Jul 26	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants	5:00am	ChunichiChunichi Dragons
19 Jul 26	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	9:00am	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows
19 Jul 26	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines	9:00am	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
19 Jul 26	Tohoku RTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	9:00am	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions
19 Jul 26	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp	9:00am	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers
		Results
18 Jul 26	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants	- 3	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
18 Jul 26	Orix BuffOrix Buffaloes	- 4	Hokkaido Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
17 Jul 26	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants	4 - 1	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons
17 Jul 26	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars	12 - 4	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows
17 Jul 26	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp	2 - 4	Hanshin THanshin Tigers
16 Jul 26	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons	1 - 3	Hanshin THanshin Tigers
16 Jul 26	Tohoku RaTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	12 - 8	Orix BuffOrix Buffaloes
16 Jul 26	Saitama SSaitama Seibu Lions	3 - 4	Chiba LotChiba Lotte Marines
16 Jul 26	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows	1 - 3	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants
16 Jul 26	Hokkaido Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	2 - 6	Fukuoka SFukuoka SoftBank Hawks

Description

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).


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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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