MLB Japan All-Star Series: Difference between revisions
Line 188: | Line 188: | ||
*[[List of Major League Baseball games played outside North America]] |
*[[List of Major League Baseball games played outside North America]] |
||
*[[MLB Japan Opening Series 2008]] |
*[[MLB Japan Opening Series 2008]] |
||
*[[MLB Taiwan All-Star Series]] |
|||
*[[List of National Football League games played outside the United States]] |
*[[List of National Football League games played outside the United States]] |
||
Revision as of 05:27, 15 February 2019
MLB Japan All-Star Series | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Frequency | biennial |
Location(s) | ![]() |
Land | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Inaugurated | 1986 |
Most recent | 2014 |
Next event | 2018 |
Participants | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Organised by | Major League Baseball |
The MLB Japan All-Star Series is an biennial end-of-the-season tour of Japan made by an All-Star team from Major League Baseball (MLB) since 1986, contested in a best-of format against the All-Stars from Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) or recently as of 2014 their national team Samurai Japan (SJP).
The series featured many great players, such as Nori Aoki, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Jr., Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Hideki Matsui, Ichiro Suzuki, Shinnosuke Abe, David Ortiz, Sammy Sosa, Justin Morneau, David Wright, Jose Reyes, José Altuve, Robinson Canó and Manny Ramírez.
In the beginning of all games the American, Canadian and Japanese national anthems are all played. And games can end in a tie if it persists through 12 innings, just as in NPB rules.
List of series
MLB vs. NPB (1986–2006)
Year | Format | MLB All-Stars Won | NPB All-Stars Won (1986–98 as All-Japan) |
Tied | Most Valuable Player |
1986 | Best-of-7 | 6 Games | 1 Game | 0 Games | Tony Peña (MLB) |
1988 | Best-of-7 | 3 Games | 2 Games | 2 Games | Barry Larkin (MLB) |
1990 | Best-of-8 | 3 Games | 4 Games | 1 Game | Ken Griffey Jr. (MLB) |
1992 | Best-of-8 | 6 Games | 1 Game | 1 Game | Mark Grace (MLB) |
1994 | Cancelled (due to the MLB players strike) | ||||
1996 | Best-of-8 | 4 Games | 2 Games | 2 Games | Steve Finley (MLB) |
1998 | Best-of-8 | 6 Games | 2 Games | 0 Games | Sammy Sosa (MLB) |
2000 | Best-of-8 | 5 Games | 2 Games | 1 Game | Barry Bonds (MLB) |
2002 | Best-of-8 | 5 Games | 3 Games | 0 Games | Torii Hunter (MLB) |
2004 | Best-of-8 | 5 Games | 3 Games | 0 Games | Vernon Wells (MLB) |
2006 | Best-of-5 | 5 Games | 0 Games | 0 Games | Ryan Howard (MLB) |
Total | MLB 9–1 NPB | 48 Games | 20 Games | 7 Games | MLB 10–0 NPB |
MLB vs. SJP (2014, 2018)
The Japan All-Star Series was resumed in 2014 after an eight-year break.[1] Katsuhiko Kumazaki, then the new Commissioner of NPB, decided to field the national team Samurai Japan, instead of a NPB All-Star line-up, for the 2014 series. Kumazaki saw in this series a big opportunity for the Japanese team to gain hugely useful experience for the 2017 World Baseball Classic. Samurai Japan won the best-of-five series by a margin of three games to two. Particularly noteworthy was a combined no-hitter by Samurai Japan in Game 3 as their pitchers shut out the MLB All-Stars 4–0.[2]
On May 1, 2018, MLB announced that it would send again an All-Star team to tour Japan after the end of current season, with six games scheduled against the Japan national team from November 9 to 15.[3]
Year | Format | MLB All-Stars Won | Samurai Japan Won | Tied | Most Valuable Player |
2014 | Best-of-5 | 2 Games | 3 Games | 0 Games | Yuki Yanagita (SJP) |
2018 | Best-of-6 | 1 Game | 5 Games | 0 Games | TBD |
Total | MLB 0–2 SJP | 3 Games | 8 Games | 0 Games | MLB 0–1 SJP |
References
- ^ "US-Japan Baseball 2014 Schedule (in japanese)". Sponichi.co.jp. Retrieved June 11, 2014.
- ^ Joey Nowak (November 15, 2014). "Perfect Norimoto leads combined no-no vs. MLB". MLB.com. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ^ "Major League Baseball returns to Japan in 2018 and 2019". MLB.com. May 1, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
See also
- List of Major League Baseball games played outside North America
- MLB Japan Opening Series 2008
- MLB Taiwan All-Star Series
- List of National Football League games played outside the United States
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)