Professional baseball will open with a Japan-Ham vs. Rakuten game at the new stadium ESCON FIELD HOKKAIDO on 30 September. As vocal cheering resumes this season, it will be interesting to see how the members of the Japan National Team who won the WBC = World Baseball Classic will perform.
This season's professional baseball season will open at 30:6 p.m. on the 4th at the new stadium ESCON FIELD HOKKAIDO, where Japan Ham, who finished last in the Pacific League last year, and Rakuten, who finished fourth.
The remaining five games were played on the 31st, and Orix, who won their second consecutive Pacific League title last year and won the Japan title, faced third-place Seibu at the Belluna Dome in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture.
SoftBank, who finished second, and Lotte, who finished fifth, will face each other at the PayPay Dome in Fukuoka City.
In the Central League, Yakult, who won two consecutive league titles, will face fifth-place Hiroshima and Jingu Baseball Stadium, Hanshin, who finished third last year, will face second-place DeNA and Kyocera Dome Osaka, and last year's fourth-place Giants will face sixth-place Chunichi at Tokyo Dome.
Among the key players of each team, the Japan squad that participated in the WBC, where Japan won the title for the third time in three tournaments, will be watching to see how they perform as they are forced to make difficult adjustments with the opening of the tournament about a week after the final.
In addition, this season, the wearing of masks by spectators, which has been required as a measure against the infection of the new coronavirus, will be left to the judgment of individuals based on government policy.
In addition, cheering aloud such as singing cheering songs and cheering using instruments such as trumpets will be allowed, so the atmosphere full of excitement before the spread of the new coronavirus will return to the stadium.