Modified on November 15, 2020
Climax Series: Fukuoka Softbank Hawks vs Chiba Lotte Marines
Nov 15
The Marines hit in the first funs. But
the Hawks Akira Nakamura blasted 2 homers, both 2 run home runs.
The Hawks won 6 to 4 to advance to Japan Series 4 years in a row.
Nov 14
The Marines Hisanori Yasuda blasted a 2 run home run off the Hawks starting pitcher Koudai Senga.
Then Yuki Yanagita homered off Manabu Mima.
Hirokazu Sawamura gave up a run.
The Hawks clinched the game with Takuya Kai's RBI, 4 to 3.
November
The season is ewnding by there are teams trying to win a berth to the climax series.
The Lions is one of them but on Nov 6, lost to the Golden Eagles, tied the next day.
On Nov 8 the Lions faced the Marines, lost to Yudai Fujioka's home run.
The Marines won the berth to the Climax Series.
On Nov 2, the Lion shut out the Fighters in the only game played that day, won the next 2. From Nov 3, the Hawks beat the Marines in the first 2 games, lost the 3rd. The Buffaloes Steven Moya homered twice on Nov 3 and beat the Golden Eagles, won the next game too, but lost the 3rd.
The Lions beat the Hawks on Nov 1 on Takeya Nakamura's RBI. The Marines and the Golden Eagles tied. The Fighters beat the Buffaloes.
Final standing
1.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
2.Chiba Lotte Marines
3.Saitama Seibu Lions
4.Rakuten Golden Eagles
5.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
6.Orix Buffaloes
October
The Hawks beat the Lions from Oct 30 in 2 games.
The Marines won the first against the Golden Eagles lost the 2nd.
The Buffaloes and the Fighters won a game each.
On Oct 27, the Hawks starting pitcher was 39 year old Tsuyoshi Wada. He pitched well. Takuya Kai slammed a 2 run home run and beat the Marines. The Hawks secured the league victory for the first time in 3 years. It will have play a "Climax Series" with the runner up to advance to the Japan Series. It's not clear yet which team will be the runner up. The Hawks carried on winning the next 2 games against he Marines. The Lions have a chance. It won against the Golden Eagles on Tomoya Mori's 3 run home run on Oct 27, won the next, but lost the 3rd.
The Hawks on Oct 23 won its 12th game in the row beating the Lions with Yuki Yanagita's 2 run home run. The next day, it lost facing a grand slam by the Lions Takeya Nakamura. The Hawks won the 3rd game. The Marines meanwhile faced defeat in the first 2 games against the Buffaloes, finally being able to win on Oct 25. The Golden Eagles and the Fighters tied in the game on Oct 23, then won a game each.
The Hawks continued its winning streak against the Fighters from Oct 20 winning all 3 games or its 11 straight win. The Marines faced a last minute defeat to the Lions in 2 games from Oct 20, and lost the 3rd too. The Golden Eagles tied against the Buffaloes on Oct 20, fell to 4th place losing the next day. The Golden Eagles managed to win on Oct 22 on Stefen Romero's 3 run home run.
The Hawks continue to play, beating the Golden Eagles in all 3 games from Oct 16. The Marines played the Fighters on Oct 16 and 18, won the first but lost the next. The Lions won 2 of 3 games against the Buffaloes.
The Hawks beat the Buffaloes in all 3 games from Oct 13. The Marines Inoue helped his team win with a RBI on Oct 13, but lost against the Golden Eagles the next 2 games. The Fighters lost the first game against the Lions, but on Oct 14 Taiichi Ota slammed a 2 run homer, and the next day Sho Nakata hit in a run to help the Fighter win 2 games.
The top ranking teams faced eachother from Oct 9. The Marines took the first, the Hawks took the next 2. The Lions beat the Golden Eagles on Oct 9. The next game was rained out. On Oct 11 the Golden Eagles won with a home run by Eita Asamura. The Buffaloes T Okada blasted a 2 run home run on Oct 9 to beat the Fighters. The Fighters won the next, the Buffaloes won the 3rd.
From Oct 6 the Hawks played against the Lions. The Lions won the first two, they tied in the 3rd. The Marines announced 11 were infected with COVID-19 and replace the players. The Buffaloes won the first game, the Marines won the next game. On Oct 6 the Fighters Taishi Ota slammed a 3 run home run to help his team beat the Golden Eagles. They ties in the next game, and the Golden Eagles won the 3rd game.
From Oct 2 the Hawks faced the Fighters and won all 3 games. The Marines was shut out by the Lions on Oct, but won the next 2 games with Shuhei Fukuda blasting home runs in both games. The Golden Eagles won the first 2 games, lot the 3rd.
On Oct 1, the Hawks beat the Golden Eagles, the Lions won on Hotaka Yamakawa's 2 run home run. The Fighters beat the Marines.
Standing at the end of October
1.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
2.Chiba Lotte Marines
3.Saitama Seibu Lions
4.Rakuten Golden Eagles
5.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
6.Orix Buffaloes
September
On Sept 29 the Hawks Ryoya Kurihara slamed a 3 run home run to defeat the Golden Eagles.
It lost to Hideki Wakui's good pitch the next day, Wakui won his 10th game.
The Marines beat the Fighters in the first 2 games from Sept 29.
The Buffaloes Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched well against the Lions on Sept 29 with 14 strike out.
The Buffaloes won the next game too.
The Hawks faced the Marines from Sept 25, and lost 2 of 3 games. The Lions defeated the Golden Eagles in all 3games. The Buffaloes won against the Fighters on Sept 5 with Steven Moya's grand slam. It lost the next game but in the 3rd game, Moya slammed a 2 run homer.
From Sept 22 the Hawks faced the Buffaloes, lost the first 2 games, and tied in the 3rd. The Golden Eagles Eito Asamura slammed 3 home run against the Marines on Sept 22, then a 2 run homer the next day. The Golden Eagles won all 3 games. The Fighters Sho Nakata slammed a 2 run homerun in the first game against the Lions to win, homered again the next day but his team lost. The Fighters won the 3rd game.
The Hawks faced the Golden Eagles from Sept 18. The Hawks won the first but lost the next 2 games. The Fighters beat the Marines in the first 2 games, lost the 3rd. The Buffaloes beat the Lions in the first 2 games, the Lions clinched the 3rd.
From Sept 15, the Hawks faced the Fighters , lost the first and won the next 2. The Lions beat the Marines in the first 2 games and lost the 3rd to home runs by Kyle Martin. The Buffaloes defeated the Golden Eagles in the first 2 games and lost the 3rd.
On Sept 11, the Hawks Alfredo Despaigne's home run helped beat the Lions. The Hawks won the next game, but lost the 3rd. The Marines faced the Buffaloes from Sept 11, with a game rained out in between and instead heald ofn Sept 14. The Marines won all 3. The Golden Eagles and the Fighters also had a rained out game in between. The Golden Eagles won the first 2 games and lost the 3rd.
The leading team, the Hawks beat the Golden Eagles in all 3 games from Sept 8. The Marines won the first 2 games from the Fighters but lost the 3rd on Sho Nakata's 2 run home run. The Lions beat the Buffaloes in the first 2 games, lost in the 3rd in which Adam Jones recorded his 2000th career hit.
From Sept 4 the Hawks faced the Marines. The Marines beat the Hawks in the first 2 games. The Golden Eagles Eita Asamura contributed with 2 homers on Sept 4 and the next day with another home run to beat the Buffaloes. The Buffaloes won the 3rd game. The Lions Hotaru Yamakawa slammed a 3 run homerun on Sept 4 to defeat the Fighters, and also won the 3rd game.
The Hawks faced the Buffaloes from Sept 1, lost the first, tied in the 2nd, won the 3rd with a homer by Nobuhiro Matsuda. The Lions won the first 2 games from the Marines and lost the 3rd. The Fighters beat the Golden Eagles in 2 of 3 games.
Standing at the end of September
1.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
2.Chiba Lotte Marines
3.Rakuten Golden Eagles
4.Saitama Seibu Lions
5.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
6.Orix Buffaloes
August
The Hawks Kurihara homered twice on Aug 28 to beat the Fighters.
The Hawks won the next 2 games.
The Marines Martin blasted a 3 run home run against the Buffaloes on Aug 28, then homered agains thte next day for his team to win.
The Buffaloes won the 3rd game.
From Aug 25, the Hawks beat the Buffaloes in all 3 games. The Marines defeat the Golden Eagles in the first 2 games, lost the 3rd on homeruns by Stefen Romero and Eita Asamura. The Fighters won the first 2 games, the Lions won the 3rd.
Another long 6 games against the same team from Aug 18. The Hawks faced the Marines, lost the first, tied in the next, lost the 3rd and 4th, allowing the Marines to take first place. On Aug 22 the Hawks won on Yuki Yanagita's 2 run home run and a single, and again on Yanagita's home run the next day. The Fighter Sho Nakata slammed a 2 run homer on Aug 18 to defeat the Golden Eagles. The Golden Eagles won the next day, tied on Aug 20. The Golden Eagles won on Norimoto's good pitch on Aug 21. The Fighters won on Sho Nakata's RBIs the next day and on Aug 23 on Kotaro Kiyomiya's 3 run home run. From Aug 18, the Lions won the first 3 games against the Buffaloes, then lost 3 games from Aug 21.
On Aug 11, the Buffaloes T Okada grand slammed, but the Hawks Yuki Yanagida with his 3 run home run clinched the game. The Hawks won the next 3 games, lost on Aug 15, won again the next game. The Marines beat the Fighters on Aug 11 on Martin's 3 run homer. The Fighters won the next game in Sho Nakata's 2 homers.The Marine won on Aug 13 and 14. On Aug 15, Nakata homered again to take his team to a win. The Marines beat the Fighters on Aug 16. The Golden Eagles beat the Lions in the first 3 games. Lost the game on Aug 14, tied in the next. On Aug 16, Hotaka Yamakawa homered and also had an RBI base hit to give the Lions a win.
The Golden Eagles faced the Hawks from Aug 4, The Golden Eagles Eita Asamura slammed a 2 run home run to beat the Hawks. Wakui shut out the Hawks in the next game. The Hawks won the 3rd games. The Golden Eagles won on Aug 7 with 2 homers by Stefen Romero and won the next day, but lost on Aug 9. The Fighters Taishi Ota homered twice to beat the Lions on Aug 4. The Lions won the next day on Hotaka Yamakawa's 2 run home run. The Fighters won the next 3 games. The Buffaloes faced the Marines from Aug 4, tied in the first, the Marines won the next on Seiya Inoue's home run. The Buffaloes won on Aug 6. The Marines won on Aug 7 again on Inoue's home run and won the next game too.
The Hawks on Aug 1 beat the Lions with Ryoya Kurihara's home run. The next game was cancelled as COVID-19 precautionary measure due to Hawks player's infection was confirmed. The Golden Eagles beat the Marines on Stefen Romero's grand slam on Aug 1. The Marines won the next game. The Fighters Sho Nakata homered to beat the Buffaloes on Aug 1.
Standing at the end of August
1.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
2.Chiba Lotte Marines
3.Rakuten Golden Eagles
4.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
5.Saitama Seibu Lions
6.Orix Buffaloes
July
From Jul 28 the Hawks beat the Lions in the first 2 games, lost the next but won the 4th.
The Marines clinched the first competitive game against the Golden Eagles, lost the next 2 and won the 4th.
The Fighters Sho Nakata slammed 2 home runs on Jul 28 against the Buffaloes for his team's win.
The Fighters won the next 2 games, lost the 4th.
The Golden Eagles played 6 consecutive games against the Buffaloes from Jul 21. It lost two games in a row, then tied in the 3rd. The Buffaloes won the 4th and 5th. The Golden Eagles won the 6th. The Lions played 6 consecutive games against the Marines from Jul 21. The Lions won the first on Takeya Nakamura's home run. It lost the next to Inoue's home run. The Lions won on July 23, and on 24 with Sotozaki's game winning RBi. The Marines Taneichi shut out the Lions on Jul 25. On Lions won the next game on Kuriyama's RBI. The Hawks played against the Fighters from Jul 21, lost the first, won the next on Nobuhiro Matsuda's 2 RBI hit, lost on Jul 23, won the next, lost on Jul 25 to Sho Nakata's 3 run home run. The Hawks won on Jul 26.
On July 14, the Hawks beat the Buffaloes on Yuki Yanagita's RBI. The Hawks won the next 3 games. The Marines and the Fighters win a game each until July 18. The Golden Eagles face the Lions from Jul 15, wins the first 2 games, loses the next 2, wins the game on Jul 18 with Yasuhito Uchida's grand slam.
On Jul 7 the Hawks won against the Golden Eagles on Yuki Yanagita's RBI. The Golden Eagles won under Hideaki Wakui's good pitch the next game, and won the game on Jul 9 too. In the first game with spectators up to 5000, the Hawks Yuki Yanagita blasted a game winning home run. The Hawks won the 2 games after too. The Marines face the Lions from Jul 7, won the first but lost steam afterwards, losing the next, experiencing a rained out game on Jul 9, and losing on Jul 10 before spectators on a walk with bases full. The Marines won on Jul 11, but the Lions won on Jul 12. The Buffaloes on Jul 7 beat the Fighters, lost the next, tied on Jul 9. On Jul 10 spectators witnessed new foreign player Aderlin Rodriguez's game winning 3 run home run. The Buffaloes also won on Jul 11, and on Jul 12 on Yoshinobu Yamamoto's 13 strike out pitch.
On July 1, the Golden Eagles won the game against the Marines, lost the next, but won on July 3 the game which Takahiro Norimoto started. In between a game was rained out. On July 5, the Golden Eagles won on Eito Asamura's 3 run home run. On July 1, the Hawks beat the Fighters, lost the next to Sho Nakata's 2 run home run. On July 3, Balentine's 2 run home run gave the Hawks a win, won the next, then lost on Jul 5. From July 1 the Lions beat the Buffaloes in the first 2 games, tied in the 3rd. On July 4 the Buffaloes finally won and so did it win the next game with T Okada's home run.
Standing at the end of July
1.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
2.Rakuten Golden Eagles
3.Saitama Seibu Lions
4.Chiba Lotte Marines
5.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
6.Orix Buffaloes
June
The Golden Eagles on June 30 ended the Marines winning streak with home runs by Daichi Suzuki and
Eito Asamura.
The Buffaloes took its 7th straight loss on June 30 by losing to the Lions.
The Hawks and the Fighters tied.
The Lions Hotaka Yamakawa homered twice against the Hawks on June 26. He had a 3 run homer the next game, and again homered on June 28, contributing to his teams win in all 3 games. The Golden Eagles ace pitcher Takahiro Norimoto struck out 10 on June 26, winning against the Fighters. Eito Asamura slammed a 3 run homer to again beat the Fighters. But the Fighters won on June 28 with Sho Nakata's 2 run homer. The Marines in good shape, beating the Buffaloes in all 3 games, achieving a 8 games in a row victory.
The Lions newcomer Joseph Spangenberg grandslammed to beat the Hawks on June 23. The Hawks clinched the next on Imamiya's 3 run home run and won the 3rd on Wladimir Balentien's home run. Yamakawa homereed twice the next day for the Lions win. The Golden Eagles Eita Asamura homered on June 23 and the next day too to defeat the Fighters. The Fighters won on June 25 with homers by Taishi Ohta and Sho Nakata. But lost on June 26 to Norimoto's good pitch. The Marines beat the Buffaloes in all 4 games.
The season kicks off 3 months later than initially planned due to Covid-19 pandemic opening on June 19. The Lions beat the Fighters to start the season with an RBI by Hotaka Yamakawa, but lost the next two. The Hawks in a competitive game took the victory in the 10th inning against the Marines. The Marines won the next on Brandon Laird's RBI, and also on June 21 on Seiya Inoue's grand slam. The Golden Eagles started the season with Takahiro Norimoto and defeated the Buffaloes, and won the next, but lost the 3rd to T Okada's RBI.
Standing at the end of June
1.Chiba Lotte Marines
2.Rakuten Golden Eagles
3.Saitama Seibu Lions
4.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
5.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
6.Orix Buffaloes
Final league standing in 2019
1.Saitama Seibu Lions
2.Fukuoka Softbank Hawks
3.Rakuten Golden Eagles
4.Chiba Lotte Marines
5.Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
6.Orix Buffaloes
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