The owners' meeting of 12 professional baseball teams was held, and it was decided to delay the schedule of this season's climax series and Japan series by one week due to the cancellation and postponement of the game due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.

In professional baseball this season, due to the impact of the new coronavirus outbreak in Nippon Ham and Hiroshima, four games against Nippon Ham and five games against Hiroshima were canceled in May, and there were no spectators in response to the state of emergency. Six games have been postponed during the period to avoid holding in.



Under these circumstances, in order to hold all 143 regular season games, it is necessary to secure more spare days, so the climax series from October 30th will be held from November 6th, and the Japan Series from November 13th. The idea of ​​delaying each one week from the 20th was approved at the owners' meeting held online on the 21st.



Along with this, the professional baseball awards ceremony "NPB Hours" scheduled for November 30th is expected to be delayed to mid-December.