Announcement of professional baseball season schedule Reduced movement to reduce the risk of corona infection June 1 16:01
Professional baseball announced the match card and venue for the regular season for one month from the opening game on the 19th of this month. In order to reduce the risk of infection with the new coronavirus, the schedule has been set to reduce the number of team movements as much as possible.
Professional baseball will start this season, about three months later than it was originally, on 19th of this month, and each team will play 120 regular season games.
The S-League and the P-League announced on the 1st the 1st month since the opening to reduce the movement of the team by changing the match card and the venue to reduce the risk of infection with the new coronavirus.
The first two cards of the SE League will be held at the ballparks in the Tokyo metropolitan area since the opening.
In the opening card
▽ last year, league giants Hanshin play against the home of the Tokyo Dome of winning
DeNA of ▽ 2 place in the Yokohama Stadium Hiroshima and
▽ Yakult Align the Sino-Japanese and face at Jingu Stadium.
In addition, in the Pacific League's opening card
▽ addition to league third straight the aim Seibu play a match at MetLife dome of Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, home to the Nippon Ham,
▽ last year, shining in Japan for three consecutive years from league second place Softbank will play Lotte at PayPa Dome in Fukuoka and
Orix will play Rakuten at Kyocera Dome Osaka.
And from the 23rd of this month, the second card, 6 consecutive games have been organized in the same stadium with the same team, and the schedule has reduced the movement due to the expedition.