The 12 professional baseball teams held an extraordinary executive committee and decided to discontinue the game in nine times this season as a new response to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.
The 12 professional baseball teams held an extraordinary executive committee online on the 18th to discuss what to do in the season starting on the 26th of this month.
The state of emergency in each of the three prefectures in the Tokyo metropolitan area will be lifted on the 21st, but requests for restaurants to shorten business hours by 9:00 pm will continue.
For this reason, according to the people concerned, we have decided to stop the game in 9 times this season without extending the game so that we can finish the game by 9 pm even in professional baseball.
Also, in the metropolitan area of 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures, night games scheduled to start after 6 pm are considering accelerating the start time.
In professional baseball, as a special case of the spread of the new coronavirus infection this season, it was decided to discontinue the extension 10 times in order to reduce the burden on the players as in the previous season, but in response to requests from the government and local governments. I was considering a new response.