Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series
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The Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Game is an annual baseball series of All-Star Games (in most years, two games are played, but three such games can and have been played as well) between players from the Central League and the Pacific League, currently selected by a combination of fans, players, coaches, and managers. The All-Star Game usually occurs in early to mid-July and marks the symbolic halfway point in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) season (though not the mathematical halfway point; in most seasons, that takes place one week earlier).
History[]
The first NPB All-Star game was played in 1951.
For many years, mimicking the gaijin waku rule of the NPB,[1] each All-Star team was limited to two foreign players.[2]
Game results[]
Date | Winning League | Score | Venue | Host Team | Attendance | MVP | Winning Pitcher | Losing Pitcher |
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2004 (Game 1) | Pacific | 3–1 | Nagoya Dome | Chunichi Dragons | Daisuke Matsuzaka | |||
2004 (Game 2) | Pacific | 2–1 | Nagano Olympic Stadium | none | Tsuyoshi Shinjo | |||
2005 (Game 1) | Central | 6–5 | Seibu Dome | Seibu Lions | Tatsuhiko Kinjo | |||
2005 (Game 2) | Central | 5–3 | Koshien Stadium | Hanshin Tigers | Tomonori Maeda | |||
2006 (Game 1) | Central | 3–1 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | Yakult Swallows | Norichika Aoki | |||
2006 (Game 2) | Central | 7–4 | Sun Marine Stadium | none | Atsushi Fujimoto | |||
2007 (Game 1) | Central | 4–0 | Tokyo Dome | Yomiuri Giants | Alex Ramírez | |||
2007 (Game 2) | Central | 11–5 | Fullcast Stadium | Rakuten Eagles | Shinnosuke Abe | |||
2008 (Game 1) | Pacific | 5–4 | Kyocera Dome Osaka | Orix Buffaloes | Takeshi Yamasaki | |||
2008 (Game 2) | Central | 11–6 | Yokohama Stadium | Yokohama BayStars | Masahiro Araki | |||
2009 (Game 1) | Central | 10–8 | Sapporo Dome | Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters | 38,370 | Norichika Aoki | ||
2009 (Game 2) | Pacific | 7–4 | Mazda Stadium | Hiroshima Toyo Carp | Nobuhiko Matsunaka | |||
2010 (Game 1) | Central | 4–1 | Yahoo Dome | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | Shinnosuke Abe | |||
2010 (Game 2) | 5–5 | Hard Off Eco Stadium | none | Yasuyuki Kataoka | ||||
2011 (Game 1) | Central | 9–4 | Nagoya Dome | Chunichi Dragons | Kazuhiro Hatakeyama | |||
2011 (Game 2) | Pacific | 4–3 | QVC Marine Field | Chiba Lotte Marines | Takeya Nakamura | |||
2011 (Game 3) | Pacific | 5–0 | Kleenex Stadium | Rakuten Eagles | Atsunori Inaba | |||
2012 (Game 1) | Central | 4–1 | Kyocera Dome Osaka | Orix Buffaloes | Norihiro Nakamura | |||
2012 (Game 2) | Central | 4–0 | Botchan Stadium | none | Kenta Maeda | |||
2012 (Game 3) | Pacific | 6–2 | none | DaiKan Yoh | ||||
2013 (Game 1) | 1–1 | Sapporo Dome | Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters | Hirokazu Sawamura | ||||
2013 (Game 2) | Central | 3–1 | Meiji Jingu Stadium | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | Takahiro Arai | |||
2013 (Game 3) | Pacific | 3–1 | Iwaki Green Stadium | none | Seiichi Uchikawa | |||
2014 (Game 1) | Central | 7–0 | Seibu Dome | Saitama Seibu Lions | Brad Eldred | |||
2014 (Game 2) | Pacific | 12–6 | Koshien Stadium | Hanshin Tigers | Yuki Yanagita | |||
2015 (Game 1) | Central | 8–6 | Tokyo Dome | Yomiuri Giants | Shintaro Fujinami | |||
2015 (Game 2) | Central | 8–3 | Mazda Stadium | Hiroshima Toyo Carp | Tsubasa Aizawa | |||
2016 (Game 1) | Central | 5–4 | Yahoo Dome | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh | |||
2016 (Game 2) | 5–5 | Yokohama Stadium | Yokohama DeNA BayStars | Shohei Ohtani | ||||
2017 (Game 1) | Pacific | 6–2 | Nagoya Dome | Chunichi Dragons | Seiichi Uchikawa | |||
2017 (Game 2) | Pacific | 3–1 | Zozo Marine Stadium | Chiba Lotte Marines | Alfredo Despaigne | |||
2018 (Game 1) | Pacific | 7–6 | Kyocera Dome Osaka | Orix Buffaloes | Tomoya Mori | |||
2018 (Game 2) | Pacific | 5–1 | none | Sōsuke Genda | ||||
2019 (Game 1) | Pacific | 6–3 | Tokyo Dome | Yomiuri Giants | Tomoya Mori | |||
2019 (Game 2) | Central | 11–3 | Koshien Stadium | Hanshin Tigers | Kōji Chikamoto | |||
2020 | Series canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |||||||
2021 (Game 1) | Central | 5-4 | MetLife Dome | Saitama Seibu Lions | Ryosuke Kikuchi | |||
2021 (Game 2) | Pacific | 4-3 | Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | Hiroaki Shimauchi |
See also[]
- Major League Baseball All-Star Game
- Baseball awards#Japan
References[]
- ^ "Foreign Player Restrictions?". Japanese Baseball.
- ^ Whiting, Robert. You Gotta Have Wa (Vintage Departures, 1989), p. 275.
Categories:
- 1951 establishments in Japan
- All-star games
- Nippon Professional Baseball competitions
- Recurring sporting events established in 1951