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Professional baseball Tohoku Rakuten will cancel the scheduled Softbank game on the 2nd and 3rd at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi in Miyagino-ku, Sendai City, after a total of 9 players and coaches have been certified as positive for the new coronavirus on the 2nd. Announced. This is the first time for 12 teams to cancel the official game of the 1st Army due to the influence of the new corona infection.
On the same day, Tohoku Rakuten decided to cancel the two games after discussing how to deal with the spread of the infection within the team with the experts of the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization and the Coronavirus Countermeasures Liaison Conference. Director Kazuhisa Ishii said, “Today was Saturday and there were a lot of customers. I have pure feelings of regret and regret.”
The match is expected to resume at the earliest on the 5th at Seibu (Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi). There will be no practice on the 3rd, and on the 4th, the players will be divided into groups for distributed practice. Director Ishii said, “(Now) I can’t work as a team. I’m worried about the players in this situation. I want to use it as an important period to start various things again.”
At Tohoku Rakuten, infielder Eigoro Mogi received a positive test on March 27, and pitcher Kodai Norimoto, pitcher Busenitz, pitcher Shinri Komine, catcher Yuma Yasuda, and Keizo Kawashima on the 31st. 6 positives of fielder and Daisho Fukada infielder are confirmed. On April 1, it was discovered that Naoto Nishiguchi and Shinichiro Koyama, a pitcher coach of the 1st Army, were infected.
According to the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, the cancellation due to the new coronavirus will be one game in 2020 and nine games in 2009.
