Procedure to judge match holding when confirming infection of professional baseball 12 teams review to review

Procedures for determining match holding when professional baseball is confirmed to be reviewed by 12 teams August 21 21:11

Professional baseball will be reviewed by 12 teams because there was a problem in the procedure to decide whether to hold it after the game was canceled for the first time from a player on the 1st of this month and the game was canceled. It was.

In professional baseball, SoftBank's Yuya Hasegawa was found to be infected with the new coronavirus on the 1st of this month, and one official game with Seibu scheduled for the next day was canceled.

In response to this, an extraordinary executive committee was held online on the 7th, and 12 teams exchanged opinions on the newly found issues by the procedure from the appearance of infected people in the team to the decision to hold the match. It was

Specifically,
▽The result of the PCR test is known sooner than before, so it is necessary to judge the holding of a match in a short time,
▽Whether the next match will be held When you try to make a decision, if the public health center has not identified the concentrated contact person, how to deal with it is an issue.

Based on these issues, the 12 teams and the NPB = Japan Baseball Organization will review the decision procedure of the game holding and will discuss it again at the executive committee on 11th of this month.

Atsushi Ihara, Executive Director of NPB, said, “I realized that there were actually infected people and this was a real problem. How to organize the most recent match is difficult. I will think about the flow."