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Sports season
The 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 64th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950 .
Juiced ball scandal [ edit ] At the beginning of the 2013 NPB season, a new livelier ball was introduced in secret. This juiced up baseball allowed more home runs to be scored, leading to Tokyo Yakult Swallows outfielder Wladimir Balentien to break the 55 single season home run record set by Sadaharu Oh and later tied by Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera .[ 1] Ryozo Kato resigning, though he claimed that he did not know about these juiced baseballs.[ 2]
Regular season standings [ edit ] Note: All of the games that are played in the first two rounds of the Climax Series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advances if the round ends in a tie.
First Stage Final Stage Japan Series 1 Yomiuri Giants 4 2 Hanshin Tigers 0 3 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 0 3 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2 CL1 Yomiuri Giants 3 PL1 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 4 1 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 4 2 Saitama Seibu Lions 1 3 Chiba Lotte Marines 1 3 Chiba Lotte Marines 2
The regular season league champions, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received byes to the championship round.
Hiroshima Toyo Carp (2) vs. Hanshin Tigers (0)
Game
Date
Score
Location
Time
Attendance
1
October 12
Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 8, Hanshin Tigers – 1Koshien Stadium 3:34
46,923[ 3]
2
October 13
Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 7, Hanshin Tigers – 4Koshien Stadium
3:02
46,902[ 4]
Chiba Lotte Marines (2) vs. Saitama Seibu Lions (1)
Game
Date
Score
Location
Time
Attendance
1
October 12
Chiba Lotte Marines – 11, Saitama Seibu Lions – 1Seibu Dome 3:24
32,880[ 5]
2
October 13
Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Saitama Seibu Lions – 15
Seibu Dome
3:16
33,914[ 6]
3
October 14
Chiba Lotte Marines – 4, Saitama Seibu Lions – 1Seibu Dome
3:01
33,832[ 7]
The regular season league champions, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (PL) and the Yomiuri Giants (CL), received a one-game advantage.
Yomiuri Giants (4) vs. Hiroshima Toyo Carp (0)
Game
Date
Score
Location
Time
Attendance
1
October 16
Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 2, Yomiuri Giants – 3
Tokyo Dome 3:27
45,107[ 8]
2
October 17
Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 3
Tokyo Dome
2:26
45,316[ 9]
3
October 18
Hiroshima Toyo Carp – 1, Yomiuri Giants – 3
Tokyo Dome
2:32
46,081[ 10]
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (4) vs. Chiba Lotte Marines (1)
Game
Date
Score
Location
Time
Attendance
1
October 17
Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2
Miyagi Baseball Stadium 2:55
24,332[ 11]
2
October 18
Chiba Lotte Marines – 4, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium
3:25
24,097[ 12]
3
October 19
Chiba Lotte Marines – 0, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2
Miyagi Baseball Stadium
3:00
24,396[ 13]
4
October 21*
Chiba Lotte Marines – 5, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 8
Miyagi Baseball Stadium
3:33
24,264[ 14]
* Postponed from October 20 due to rain[ 15] PL Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (4) vs. CL Yomiuri Giants (3)
Game
Date
Score
Location
Time
Attendance
1
October 26
Yomiuri Giants – 2, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 0Miyagi Baseball Stadium 3:20
25,209[ 16]
2
October 27
Yomiuri Giants – 1, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2
Miyagi Baseball Stadium
3:16
25,219[ 17]
3
October 29
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 1Tokyo Dome 3:26
44,940[ 18]
4
October 30
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 6
Tokyo Dome
4:07
44,968[ 19]
5
October 31
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 4, Yomiuri Giants – 2Tokyo Dome
3:49
44,995[ 20]
6
November 2
Yomiuri Giants – 4, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 2Miyagi Baseball Stadium
3:16
25,271[ 21]
7
November 3
Yomiuri Giants – 0, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – 3
Miyagi Baseball Stadium
3:15
25,249
2013 average attendance [ edit ]
Team
Games
Total attendance
Attendance Per Game
Yomiuri
41
1,666,044
40,635
Hanshin
43
1,654,301
38,472
SoftBank
41
1,350,604
32,942
Chunichi
40
1,111,064
27,777
Nippon-Ham
42
1,095,307
26,079
Seibu
41
881,118
21,491
Hiroshima
43
853,646
19,852
Orix
42
821,848
19,568
Yakult
39
731,778
18,764
Yokohama
43
781,426
18,173
Rakuten
40
675,880
16,897
Lotte
41
684,911
16,705
538
12,307,927
297,355
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