Professional baseball Rakuten will restart voluntary training at the baseball facility on May 8 at 20:53 on May 7.
As a measure to prevent infection with the new coronavirus, Rakuten, which was the only professional 12 baseball team to close down all the facilities of the baseball team, has been playing the facility since the 8th because the request for suspension of leave in Miyagi Prefecture was canceled on the 7th. It will be open to the public and will resume voluntary training.
As a measure to prevent infection of players and staff, Rakuten has instructed the team to suspend its activities from March 30, close the stadium and practice facilities, and refrain from going out unnecessarily and urgently.
Although the activity as a team is still suspended, no new infected person has been confirmed in Miyagi prefecture for 9 consecutive days from the 29th of last month, and the leave request requested by the operator by Miyagi prefecture is on the 7th. Based on the fact that it was canceled, we decided to open the baseball facility to athletes and resume voluntary training from the 8th.
This is the first time in 40 days since March 29th that we have practiced using the team's facilities.
When resuming, in order to avoid so-called "3 denseness", the team is divided into 6 groups, and in addition to practicing in two training facilities in Rakuten Life Park Miyagi and Izumi Ward, Sendai City in the morning and afternoon, and participating Check if there are any problems with body temperature or physical condition.
In addition, the practice time in the morning and the afternoon will be opened for about 2 hours, and the locker will be divided into 3 parts to completely replace the locker to prevent infection.