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More information about the 2024 professional baseball All-Star Game is provided below.
Dates and locations
Game 1: Tuesday, 23 July at ESCON Field HOKKAIDO (Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido).
Game 2: Wednesday 24 July at Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium (Shinjuku, Tokyo). Games start at 18:30 on both days.
Broadcast schedule
The games will be broadcast live on TV Asahi (terrestrial), BS Asahi (BS), CS Tereasa Channel 2 (CS) and ABEMA.
Players
The players will be selected through fan voting, player-to-player voting and manager selection in the Central League and Pacific League. For example, the Central League starting pitcher is Hiroto Saiki of the Hanshin and the Pacific League starting pitcher is Fukuya Yamazaki of Nippon Ham.
Home run derby
The Home Run Derby is also part of the All-Star Game, with players selected from both the Central and Pacific League.
Match development
1st inning.
The Central League’s starting pitcher, Hiroto Saiki of the Hanshin, takes the plate. Kensuke Kondo of Softbank, the top batter in the Pacific League, comes in as the first batter, but strikes out on Saiki’s sharp fastball. The next batter also strikes out and the game ends with three outs.
Bottom of 1st innings
The Pacific League’s starting pitcher, Nippon Ham’s Fukuya Yamazaki takes the mound. DeNA’s Shugo Maki, the top hitter in the Central League, hits a double to load the bases. Kazuma Okamoto (Giants) then walks on four pitches, giving the home team a chance to get runners at first and second with no outs, but they are unable to score as the next batters are hit out of order.
2nd inning.
Hiroto Saiki continues to pitch. The Pacific League’s middle-order hitter, Lotte’s Hiromi Oka, gives up a single hit, but the rest of the order is unable to follow suit and no runs score.
Bottom of 2nd inning
Fukuya Yamazaki continues to pitch. Yakult’s Munetaka Murakami, the Central League’s central line-up batsman, gives up a single, but the next batter hits a double and no runs score.
3rd inning.
Hiroto Saiki holds the Pacific League’s powerful batting line-up in check in the third innings, allowing no runs. Rakuten’s Ryosuke Tatsumi gets on base with a hit, but does not score a run.
Bottom of 3rd inning.
Fukuya Yamazaki shows his Pacific League pride and gets out of the third inning with a strikeout.
Top of 4th inning
In the Central League, relay pitcher Shoyuki Togo of the Giants takes the mound. Softbank’s Ryoya Kurihara of the Pacific League gives up a single, but the rest of the batters are struck out and no runs score.
Bottom of 4th innings.
Lotte’s Shota Suzuki takes the mound for the Pacific League.
Shogo Akiyama of Hiroshima in the Central League gives up a double but does not score a run.
Top of 5th inning
Yakult’s Hiroto Takahashi takes the mound for the Central League. The first batter in the Pacific League, Kotaro Benibayashi of the Orix, strikes out. The next batters also retire, and the game ends scoreless.
Bottom of 5th inning
The game gets underway. Kazuma Okamoto (Giants) of the Central League hits a solo home run to make it 1-0.
Top of the 6th innings
The Central League’s Yasuaki Yamazaki of DeNA takes the mound. The Pacific League batter, Yuki Yanagida of SoftBank, hits a double and Kensuke Kondo follows with a timely hit to tie the game 1-1.
Bottom of the 6th innings
Orix’s Espinosa took the mound for the Pacific League relievers. The Central League batter, Takumu Nakano of the Hanshin team, gives up a single, but the rest of the batters are struck out and no runs score.
7th inning.
Central League reliever Ryoji Kuribayashi of Hiroshima takes the mound. The Pacific League batter, Ryosuke Tatsumi of Rakuten, reaches base but fails to score.
Bottom of the 7th inning
The game moves again. S-League player Munetaka Murakami (Yakult) hits a timely double to extend the lead to 3-1.
Top of the 8th innings
Central League reliever Hiroto Takahashi (Chunichi) continues to pitch. Pacific League batter Oka Hiromi Oka of Lotte singles and Espinosa follows with a timely hit to close the gap to 3-2.
Bottom of the 8th innings.
Pacific League reliever Sei Fujii of Rakuten takes the mound. The Central League batter, Hideki Nagaoka of the Yakult baseball team, reaches base but fails to score.
Top of the 9th innings
Central League reliever Martinez of Chunichi takes the mound. Pacific League batter Kensuke Kondo of Softbank gets on base, but Martinez strikes out the rest of the batters and ends the inning without allowing a run.
Bottom of 9th innings.
The Pacific League’s relief pitcher, Masayoshi Tanaka of Nippon Ham, takes the mound. The Central League batters struggle, but the game ends scoreless.
Final Score
Central League 3 – 2 Pacific League
Famous moments
Kazuma Okamoto’s solo home run: a game-breaking shot that sent the stadium into a frenzy.
Munetaka Murakami’s timely hit: The game-deciding two-run homer.
Martinez’s suppression: he calmly weathered a pinch-hit situation in the bottom of the ninth inning to close out the game.
This kind of game development brought out the full appeal of the unique All-Star Game.
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