2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season

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2024 NPB season
2024 NPB 90th anniversary logo.svg
League Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport Baseball
DurationMarch 29 – October 9
Number of games143
Number of teams12
Central League Pennant
League champions Yomiuri Giants
  Runners-up Hanshin Tigers
Season MVP Tomoyuki Sugano (Yomiuri)
Pacific League Pennant
League champions Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
  Runners-up Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Season MVP Kensuke Kondoh (SoftBank)
Climax Series
CL champions Yokohama DeNA BayStars
  CL runners-up Yomiuri Giants
PL champions Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
  PL runners-up Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Japan Series
Champions Yokohama DeNA BayStars
  Runners-up Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
Finals MVP Masayuki Kuwahara (DeNA)
NPB seasons
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The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 75th season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950 and the 90th anniversary of the founding of professional baseball in Japan. There are 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League.

Contents

The Hanshin Tigers entered the season as the defending champions. They were eliminated in the first stage of the Central League Climax Series against the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Regular season standings

2024 Central League regular season standings [1]
#Team G Tooltip Games playedWL T Pct. GB Tooltip Games behindHomeRoad
1 Yomiuri Giants 14377597.566—39–30–338–29–4
2 Hanshin Tigers 14374636.5403½43–27–231–36–4
3 Yokohama DeNA BayStars 14371693.507834–37–137–32–2
4 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 14368705.4931039–29–329–41–2
5 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 14362774.44616½34–33–428–44
6 Chunichi Dragons 14360758.44416½35–32–425–43–4
2024 Pacific League regular season standings [2]
#Team G Tooltip Games playedWL T Pct. GB Tooltip Games behindHomeRoad
1 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 14391493.650—49–21–242–28–1
2 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 14375608.55613½41–25–634–35–2
3 Chiba Lotte Marines 14371666.51818½37–33–134–33–5
4 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 14367724.48223½30–39–237–33–2
5 Orix Buffaloes 14363773.4502834–36–129–41–2
6 Saitama Seibu Lions 14349913.3504231–40–118–51–2

Interleague

2024 regular season interleague standings [3]
#Team G Tooltip Games playedWL T Pct. GB Tooltip Games behindHomeRoad
1 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 181350.722—6–37–2
2 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 181260.66717–25–4
3 Yokohama DeNA BayStars 181170.61123–68–1
4 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 18972.56335–2−24–5
5 Orix Buffaloes 181080.55634–56–3
6 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 181080.55636–34–5
7 Yomiuri Giants 18891.4714½4–54–4–1
8 Chiba Lotte Marines 18792.43854–53–4−2
9 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 187101.4125½3–5–14–5
10 Hanshin Tigers 187110.38864–53–6
11 Chunichi Dragons 187110.38863–64–5
12 Saitama Seibu Lions 184140.22293–62–7

Overall, the Pacific League won 53 games and lost 52 against the Central League, with 3 ties.

Climax Series

First stageFinal stage Japan Series
Central League
1 Yomiuri Giants 3
2 Hanshin Tigers 03 Yokohama DeNA BayStars 4
3 Yokohama DeNA BayStars 2CL Yokohama DeNA BayStars 4
PL Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 2
Pacific League
1 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 4
2 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 22 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 0
3 Chiba Lotte Marines 1

First stage

Central League

Yokohama DeNA BayStars won the series, 2–0.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 12Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 3, Hanshin Tigers – 1 Koshien Stadium 3:1942,642 [4]  
2October 13Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 10, Hanshin Tigers – 3Koshien Stadium3:4542,646 [5]

Pacific League

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the series, 2–1.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 12Chiba Lotte Marines – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 0 Es Con Field Hokkaido 2:5537,553 [6]  
2October 13Chiba Lotte Marines – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 3 (10)Es Con Field Hokkaido3:3337,638 [7]  
3October 14Chiba Lotte Marines – 2, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 5Es Con Field Hokkaido3:0437,478

Final stage

Central League

Yokohama DeNA BayStars won the series, 4-3.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 16Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 0 Tokyo Dome 3:0542,076 [8]  
2October 17Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 1Tokyo Dome2:3142,006 [9]  
3October 18Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 1Tokyo Dome3:0642,180 [10]  
4October 19Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 4Tokyo Dome2:5442,222 [11]  
5October 20Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 1Tokyo Dome2:4042,152 [12]  
6October 21Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 3, Yomiuri Giants – 2Tokyo Dome3:4341,856 [13]

Pacific League

SoftBank won the series, 4–0.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 16Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 5 Mizuho PayPay Dome 2:4040,142 [14]  
2October 17Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 7Mizuho PayPay Dome3:1840,142 [15]  
3October 18Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – 2, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 3Mizuho PayPay Dome2:5040,142 [16]

2024 Japan Series

DeNA won the series, 4-2.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 26Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 5, Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 3 Yokohama Stadium 3:4633,147 [17]  
2October 27Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 6, Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 3 Yokohama Stadium 3:2032,953 [18]  
3October 29Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 4, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 1 Mizuho PayPay Dome 3:3736,736 [19]  
4October 30Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 5, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 0 Mizuho PayPay Dome 3:1936,623 [20]  
5October 31Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 7, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 0 Mizuho PayPay Dome 3:3836,636 [21]  
6November 3 [a] Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – 2, Yokohama DeNA BayStars – 11Yokohama Stadium3:1133,136 [23]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Game 6 was scheduled to be played on November 2nd, but was postponed due to rain. [22]

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  2. ↑ "2024 Pacific League Standings" . Retrieved October 6, 2024.
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