Tokyo Rokudaigaku baseball opening is postponed to the end of next month.
The spring league match of Tokyo Roku University baseball, which was scheduled to open at Jingu Stadium on this month 11, will postpone the opening after the end of next month due to the spread of the new coronavirus and aim to reduce the number of games became.
This was decided by the extraordinary board of directors of the Tokyo Six University Baseball Federation held at Jingu Stadium on the 5th.
According to this, the spring league match will be delayed by more than one month from the original schedule and will be the end of next month, and the opening date and the subsequent schedule will be decided by watching the infection status at the board meeting to be held after the middle of next month. .
The format of the league match is not the usual form where the team that wins first in the same match wins the points, but instead determines the ranking based on the winning rate of the six schools per game.
It is the first time that the opening has been postponed significantly, and the round robin of one game is performed from 1945 to 1975, when the “Baseball Control Order” was issued, and the first league match after the war in the spring of 1946 That is the fifth time since.
We have also decided not to play any games at this school during this month.
Takamitsu Inoue, President of the Tokyo Six University Baseball Federation, said, "Because the situation is unpredictable, we may have to consider a match with a spectator or cancel a league match in some cases."
The start of college baseball has been postponed in many spring league matches nationwide, such as Toto University Baseball and Kansai Student Baseball, and the All Japan University Baseball Championship has been postponed from June to August.