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Yokohama DeNA BayStars vs Yomiuri Giants — Nippon Baseball League

Yokohama DeNA BayStars

Yokohama DeNA BayStars

VS

09:15:00

Yokohama Stadium

Yomiuri Giants

Yomiuri Giants

Match Facts

  • Venue: Yokohama Stadium
  • Yokohama DeNA BayStars home ground: Yokohama Stadium
  • Yomiuri Giants stadium: Tokyo Dome
  • Yokohama DeNA BayStars founded 1949
  • Yomiuri Giants founded 1934
  • League country: Japan

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Yokohama DeNA BayStars

Nippon Baseball League

Stadium
Yokohama Stadium
Founded
1949
Country
Japan
Location
Yokohama

The Yokohama DeNA BayStars are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its current name in 2011 when the club was purchased by software company DeNA. The minor league team shares the same name and uniform as the parent team and plays in the Eastern League. The minor league home field is Yokosuka Stadium, located in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. The team began as the Taiyo Fishing Company, an amateur team currently af...

Official Kits

Yokohama DeNA BayStars 1st kit

1st · 2021

Yomiuri Giants

Nippon Baseball League

Stadium
Tokyo Dome
Founded
1934
Country
Japan
Location
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

The Yomiuri Giants are a professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball. They play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988. The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network. The Giants are the oldest team among the current Japanese professional teams. Their main rivalry is with the Hanshin Tigers, a team especially popular in the Kansai region. The Yomiuri Giants are regarded as "The New York Yankees of Japan" due to their widesprea...

Official Kits

Yomiuri Giants 1st kit

1st · 2021

Nippon Baseball League

Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu) in Tokyo, founded in 1934, and the original circuit...