2019 Nippon Professional Baseball season
70th annual season of Nippon Professional Baseball / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2019 Nippon Professional Baseball season began on March 29.[1] It was the 70th season since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950. There are 12 teams NPB, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League. The 2019 NPB season was 143 games long; teams in each league played 125 games against each other and 18 interleague games.[2] The regular season was scheduled to end on September 24 except for any make-up games scheduled after it; the regular season eventually concluded on September 30. The top three teams in each league proceed to the Climax Series, NPB's postseason system.
This article is about the 2019 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 2019 in baseball.
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2019 NPB season | |
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League | Nippon Professional Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | March 29 – October 23 |
Number of games | 143 |
Number of teams | 12 |
Central League Pennant | |
League champions | Yomiuri Giants |
Runners-up | Yokohama DeNA Baystars |
Season MVP | Hayato Sakamoto (Yomiuri) |
Pacific League Pennant | |
League champions | Saitama Seibu Lions |
Runners-up | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
Season MVP | Tomoya Mori (Seibu) |
Climax Series | |
CL champions | Yomiuri Giants |
CL runners-up | Hanshin Tigers |
PL champions | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
PL runners-up | Saitama Seibu Lions |
Japan Series | |
Champions | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
Runners-up | Yomiuri Giants |
Finals MVP | Yurisbel Gracial (SoftBank) |
NPB seasons | |
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