Japan's professional baseball season, originally set to open on March 20, will be postponed for the first time since the 2011 earthquake due to concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus, the league's boss said Monday.
"We have decided to postpone the opening," Atsushi Saito, the commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball, told reporters. "We aim to open it during April."
The league prefers to play games in front of a crowd rather than behind closed doors, Saito said, adding: "That's our unanimous thinking."
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