It was found that the 12 professional baseball teams will hold a game for adjusting players with spectators during the suspension period of the pennant race due to the Tokyo Olympics.
Professional baseball will suspend the pennant race for 25 days from July 19th, four days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, to August 12th, after the closing.
According to people familiar with the matter, the 12 teams have agreed to hold a match for player coordination during this suspension period as an "exhibition match" with spectators.
At the time before the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, it was considered to play a practice game with no spectators, but the income from each team that was hit by the new coronavirus was compensated as much as possible ( There was a voice saying that he wanted to do it, and he decided to include the audience.
Each team plans to hold around 10 "exhibition matches", not in the same league, but in areas other than Kanto and Sapporo, where there are many Olympic competition venues.