Japanese Professional Baseball 2020
Like some other major sports around the world, Japanese professional baseball started up this year with empty stands due to the coronavirus. After a three month delay, the first games were played June 19th. Players are being tested frequently and so far there have only been a small number of postive results.
This year the season has been reduced to 120 games per team, with a shortened playoff season, too.
According to a survey conducted by Waseda University, the majority of fans in Japan are fine with the measures to conduct games without spectators at the stadiums. Limited number of spectators may be able to attend after mid-July.
What are professional sports like in your country this summer? Games being held? Spectators?
3 comments:
Australian Rules football was cancelled, then re you started without a crowd, but recorded crowd noises, but nkwthe virus is back the team's have moved to the Gold Coast and I think the games are happening there. I just hope that do not take the virus with them, I think they are in 14 days isolation now.
Major league baseball doesn't begin here till July 23 and I'm not sure about the crowd situation. It will be good to see them play but I hope without an audience.
German football has started up with (mostly) empty ranks, but I don't really follow it anyways. It's a strange year in so many different aspects of our lives!
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