Professional baseball decided to postpone reopening to consider reducing the number of matches

Professional baseball held a meeting with representatives of 12 teams on the 3rd, and decided to further postpone the opening of this month, which was the target of the opening of the season which has been postponed due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection .

The opening date will be difficult to set as of the 3rd, and will be decided from late this month to early next month.

In addition, professional baseball commissioner Atsushi Saito commented on the 143 regular season games, "We must consider reducing them."