Tag: Toshiro Miyazaki
2025 NPB Playoff Preview
The stage is set for the 2025 Nippon Professional Baseball Wild Card Series, officially known as the Climax Series First Stage, a best-of-three matchup with every game played at the higher seed’s home park. This year’s games will be held on Saturday, October 11, and Sunday, October 12, with a decisive Game 3, if necessary,…
The Best Hitting Seasons Since 2020
The early 2020s will be remembered as a very unusual time in Nippon Professional Baseball history. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 marked the fewest games played in a season since 1950 (though the 120-game schedule still doubled what Major League Baseball could muster). In 2021, NPB returned to a full 143-game schedule, but extra…