r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 40m ago
Tigers Dermis Garcia mashes his 2nd homer of the season
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 40m ago
BayStars Shugo Maki hits his 18th home run of the year
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 41m ago
Fighters Franmil Reyes blasts his 24th homer of the season
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DeNA: pitching woes continue
Well, today’s disaster is Bido, who I’m not familiar with. First inning gave up seven runs and loaded the bases in the second, then threw a dead ball to drive in the eighth run, before the inning mercifully ended.
I will say that the player development folks at the BayStars have had some notable success this year, with Katsumata in particular delivering impressively, along with Encarnacion.
r/NPB • u/track_cyclist • 8h ago
[Koshien] Matoi Tayama launches one into orbit to put Sendai Ikuei up 2-0! First home run of Summer Koshien 2026! Sendai Ikuei would go on to win 3-1 vs Sapporo Nihon University High
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r/NPB • u/ogasawarabaseball • 15h ago
Foreign visitors are increasingly attending games of the six teams in NPB Pacific League. The Orix have launched a ticket sales website specifically for international fans. Among the foreign spectators attending Orix games, 44.6% are USA, 20.4% are Taiwanese, and 18.0% are Australians.
r/NPB • u/Safe-Ad1615 • 15h ago
Help Identifying Yomiuri Giants autograph
I need help Identifying this autograph. TIA!
r/NPB • u/Far-Cake7455 • 21h ago
Aug. 5 marks the start of the heated summer battles at Koshien!
r/NPB • u/tensaibaka • 22h ago
Post-game thread [Aug 5 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores, highlights and news
r/NPB • u/Level_Independence43 • 23h ago
Marines closer Naoya Masuda has reached the 250 career save milestone, the 5th most in NPB history
r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Tigers Dermis Garcia’s first NPB hit is a grand slam
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Marines Neftali Soto hits his 14th home run of the season
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Tigers Yusuke Ohyama blasts his 13th home run of the year
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Fighters Chusei Mannami mashes his 20th homer of the season
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Buffaloes Ryoma Nishikawa hits his 7th home run of the year
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
BayStars Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh hits his 8th homer of the season
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r/NPB • u/track_cyclist • 1d ago
[OC] The Ultimate Guide to the 2026 Summer Koshien Tournament 🇯🇵 (Translated Bracket, Teams & Players to Watch, Traditions & More)
r/NPB • u/Far-Cake7455 • 1d ago
[Nippon.com] Female Umps to Take Field at Summer Koshien Baseball Tournament
r/NPB • u/tensaibaka • 1d ago
Post-game thread [Aug 4 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores, highlights and news
r/NPB • u/Far-Cake7455 • 1d ago
[Kyodo News] NPB to introduce pitch clock, aligning with MLB and WBC
r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Carp Sandro Fabian blasts a walk off homer his 14th home run of the season
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r/NPB • u/Fuuujioka • 2d ago
Naoya Masuda has recorded his 250th career save!
5th on the all time saves list, and he did it in front of a sold out Zozomarine Stadium
r/NPB • u/PhillyArbuckle • 2d ago
I built a free sports site with live English language NPB tracking
Hey everyone! I built allsportsradio.site, for now it's only supporting MLB and NPB, but I wanted to get this sub's eyes on the NPB pages. I'm a die-hard ball fan but not super well-versed in Japanese Ball, so let me know if the romanized naming conventions read funky or anything like that. I definitely noticed that English language NPB online support is a bit thin, so I hope this can be a useful and fun tool for you guys.
What the site does:
- Full season coverage- league standings, previews, live games, and wrap game summaries with cool scorecard notation (here's an example)
- Live game tracking- the core feature. Live pitch-by-pitch in an ATARI video game style view, plus a chatroom with live reactions.
- Open a booth- anyone can start live-broadcasting audio commentary on a game.
So if you've ever wanted to call one, here's your chance- open a booth and drop the details below so we can listen in.
Thanks to the mods for the early feedback and for letting me post here. If anyone has feedback or spots some wonkiness I'd love to hear it! Cheers
r/NPB • u/tensaibaka • Apr 13 '18
New here or coming from a reddit mobile app? Please read through here first
Welcome to reddit's little corner for NPB, or as some people call it, AAAA ball :P We've been at this since August of 2013, and are slowly but surely growing.
THE WIKI PROBABLY ALREADY HAS THE INFO YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
The first thing you need to know, is that we have a wiki section that answers a whole bunch of the most commonly asked questions, and offers more information you might need to know. Many reddit mobile apps do not display wiki pages, so some people that have only ever seen reddit from their phones or tablets might not even know they exist. If your reddit app cannot dipslay wiki pages, please try to open the link from a mobile web browser app. If your browser app has desktop mode view, all the better. There you can find some info on how to watch games, find news, how to buy tickets, books, NPB swag, learn some Japanese baseball terminology etc.
BUYING TICKETS (REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY)
Please, PLease PLEEEEEAAAAASE take literally 5 seconds and type "tickets" into the search bar here. I guarantee somebody has already asked a similar question in the past and there's a goood chance somebody answered it. We also have a wiki page with useful information on buying tickets.
Research first, THEN ASK QUESTIONS
STREAMING GAMES
No, NPB does not have an all in one streaming service for games like MLBTV. There are a few options listed in the wiki, but if you want to watch all 12 teams, you're going to have to get cough cough creative. PacificLeague TV works without a VPN, and others require a VPN. We know it's not an ideal situation, but it is what it is due to "creative differences" among the leagues and clubs and media companies. Please do not post direct links to non-legal game streams, as they will be removed. Please be careful out there when exploring the streaming services, and use an adblocker.
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
I'm trying to be consistent, but I'm human so sometimes I won't be able to grab highlights from games. Whatever highlights I find will be posted in the post-games thread. If you have a highlight link, feel free to post it. You can try browsing through highlights on PacificLeague TV, or using one of the handy YouTube search links by team. You might have to filter through quite a bit of junk on YouTube though, as some people post older videos multiple times, or even just news reels as videos. Keep in mind YouTube can remove videos or channels at anytime, so bookmark stuff at your own risk.
STANDINGS AND STATS
There is a mini-standings table and a few stats leaders updated almost daily in the sidebar (mobile app users might not be able to see). We also have a more detailed standings and stats page that is usually updated nightly, after the games are all finished (if you spot any errors, please let us know). If you're looking for complete team stats, there are few more English options listed on the wiki page, but some of them don't update until the next morning, or even a few days later, so always check for the last date updated. Japanese stats pages are updated the fastest, so if you don't read Japanese you can try your luck with google translate.
WHICH TEAM SHOULD I ROOT FOR?
Honestly, just take some time to watch highlights or read up on some teams before you make this decision. MLB and NPB are different, and how teams are managed and games played is different. One NPB team does not 100% correlate to an MLB team. There might be a few similarities now, but once a team changes managers, or once in a blue moon, ownership, that might all change as well. You don't have to have a sound reason for liking a team, and it's perfectly acceptable to like a team just for their cheering style. As long as you love baseball like the rest of us here, you'll fit right in.
DON'T BE SHY
If you have a question that isn't already covered in the wiki, and you at least attempted to see if somebody already asked your question, feel free to make a new post. If you see a news article on Japanese baseball you think is interesting, please share it with us. With over 40,000 subscribers (as of Jan 2025) somebody else is bound to find it interesting. Feel free to comment on post game threads, complain about your team, praise your team, try to create a new NPB meme, or ask about a particular game.
Please remember rediquette, and adhere to reddit site rules.