NPB = Nippon Professional Baseball will hold an extraordinary executive committee for the giant whose three games have been canceled due to a series of infections with the new coronavirus in professional baseball, and will play games from the three consecutive games with DeNA starting on the 29th of this month. I confirmed the policy to be implemented.
From the 19th to the 25th of this month, 77 giants, including coach Hara, ace pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano, and No. 4 Kazuma Okamoto, were confirmed to be infected. 3 consecutive battles have been cancelled.
On the 26th, NPB held an extraordinary executive committee of 12 teams online to discuss future measures, and said that the infection had subsided, with DeNA scheduled for the second half of the game on the 29th of this month at Yokohama Stadium. We confirmed the policy of conducting the game from the three consecutive games of.
NPB Secretary-General Atsushi Ihara, who was interviewed after the meeting, said, "It seems that further spread of infection will be avoided. We must carefully watch the condition of the players returning to the match."