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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
13 Sep 26	Fukuoka Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	4:30am	Chiba LoChiba Lotte Marines
13 Sep 26	Saitama Saitama Seibu Lions	8:00am	HokkaidoHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
13 Sep 26	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	ChunichiChunichi Dragons
13 Sep 26	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows	9:00am	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp
13 Sep 26	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	9:00am	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants
14 Sep 26	Tokyo YaTokyo Yakult Swallows	9:00am	HiroshimHiroshima Toyo Carp
14 Sep 26	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	ChunichiChunichi Dragons
14 Sep 26	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	9:00am	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants
15 Sep 26	YokohamaYokohama DeNA BayStars	9:00am	Yomiuri Yomiuri Giants
15 Sep 26	Hanshin Hanshin Tigers	9:00am	ChunichiChunichi Dragons
		Results
12 Sep 26	Saitama SSaitama Seibu Lions	3 - 3	Hokkaido Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
12 Sep 26	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons	5 - 6	Tokyo YakTokyo Yakult Swallows
12 Sep 26	Fukuoka SFukuoka SoftBank Hawks	5 - 4	Chiba LotChiba Lotte Marines
12 Sep 26	Orix BuffOrix Buffaloes	5 - 3	Tohoku RaTohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
12 Sep 26	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp	2 - 7	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars
12 Sep 26	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants	1 - 0	Hanshin THanshin Tigers
11 Sep 26	HiroshimaHiroshima Toyo Carp	1 - 6	Yokohama Yokohama DeNA BayStars
11 Sep 26	Orix BuffOrix Buffaloes	5 - 4	Saitama SSaitama Seibu Lions
11 Sep 26	Fukuoka SFukuoka SoftBank Hawks	11 - 1	Chiba LotChiba Lotte Marines
10 Sep 26	Yomiuri GYomiuri Giants	5 - 3	Chunichi Chunichi Dragons

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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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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