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Umpire Hit by Bat Unconscious; Japanese Professional Baseball Implements Penalty for Dangerous Swings. The Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB) has established a new rule to immediately eject batters who make dangerous swings. According to the Japan Baseball Organization (JBO), which governs Japanese professional baseball, and other sources on the 12th, starting from that day, the 12 professional teams [penalized] batters who throw their …
An executive committee comprised of NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) and the 12 teams met in Tokyo on the 11th and decided that batters who engage in "dangerous swings" will be subject to disciplinary action, including ejection. This decision will apply to all official games for both the first and second teams starting on the 12th…
The Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) and the executive committee of the 12 professional baseball teams met in Tokyo on the 11th and decided on new penalties, including warnings and ejections, for batters who make dangerous swings, such as throwing their bats. These will be applied starting with the first and second team games on the 12th. This includes swings where the bat slips out of the hand…
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