Examination of measures to be taken when an infected person comes out of professional baseball spectators April 9th ​​20:55

The 12 professional baseball teams are studying measures to be taken in the event that the number of infected people comes out while the season opening cannot be predicted due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.

Twelve professional baseball teams are considering reducing the number of spectators and allowing them to sit down with more space when playing the game with spectators in preparation for the start of the season.

Last month, a team of experts at the “Measures Liaison Meeting” established with the Football J League called on spectators to store stubs so that the people who were sitting around could be identified. It should be announced and alerted.

Regarding this, NPB = Secretary-General Atsushi Ihara of the Japan Baseball Organization responded to the interview on the 9th, saying, "Each team has devised a spectacle of" free seats "where it is difficult to identify where they will sit down later. For example, there is a way to divide the zone of unreserved seats, have the audience sit on a smartphone and take a picture of which zone the audience was sitting in and record it on their own. Has shown that he may ask for

In addition, the expert team has pointed out that cheering of choir songs, cheering using trumpet and other noises, high-touch between spectators, jet balloons, etc. should be banned as to how to cheer. This means that each team is studying.