2020 NPB season | |
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League | Nippon Professional Baseball |
Sport | Baseball |
Duration | June 19 – November 25 |
Number of games | 120 |
Number of teams | 12 |
Central League Pennant | |
League champions | Yomiuri Giants |
Runners-up | Hanshin Tigers |
Season MVP | Tomoyuki Sugano (Yomiuri) |
Pacific League Pennant | |
League champions | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
Runners-up | Chiba Lotte Marines |
Season MVP | Yuki Yanagita (SoftBank) |
Climax Series | |
CL champions | N/A[1] |
CL runners-up | N/A |
PL champions | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
PL runners-up | Chiba Lotte Marines |
Japan Series | |
Champions | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks |
Runners-up | Yomiuri Giants |
Finals MVP | Ryoya Kurihara (SoftBank) |
The 2020 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 71st season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950. There were 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League.