The Hanshin Tigers won the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Central League regular season championship for the first time in 18 years바카라사이트.
Hanshin, the leading professional baseball team in Japan’s Kansai region, won 4-3 in a home game against the Yomiuri Giants held at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan on the 14th. Hanshin, who swept three consecutive games against Yomiuri, went on a season-high 11 consecutive wins and confirmed the league championship (80 wins, 44 losses, 4 draws) regardless of the results of the remaining games. Hanshin has not lost once since September. This is Hanshin’s first regular league championship since 2005.
Coach Akinobu Okada (65), who was also the winning coach 18 years ago, took the reins again this year and immediately brought the team to the top of the league. Hanshin will advance directly to the final stage of the postseason climax series and compete for advancement to the Japan Series with the winner of the first stage, where the league’s second and third place will clash.
Hanshin, which has a large fan base centered around Osaka, was at the top of the box office this season. It attracted an average of 40,892 spectators per game. Even on the day when the championship was confirmed, 42,648 fans gathered at Koshien. Since there has been no Japan Series championship since 1985, the desire to win is that great.
Meanwhile, Professor Emeritus Katsuhiro Miyamoto of Kansai University said in an interview with Nikkei Asia that day, “Hanshin’s advancement into the postseason will create economic activity worth 87.2 billion yen (785.6 billion won) in the Kansai region alone,” and “If you look at Japan as a whole, it will generate 96.9 billion yen (8730 billion won).” “This will surpass the 64.5 billion yen that the Japanese baseball team earned by winning the World Baseball Classic (WBC) last March.” For example, when Hanshin won the regular league championship in 2003, Hanshin Department Store held a special event for eight days and reportedly made an additional profit of 4 billion yen (36 billion won) compared to usual at the time.