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Japan’s baseball league delayed again, no date set for start

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Nippon Professional Baseball's season openers will not take place in May due to the coronavirus pandemic, with no firm date set for the start. Representatives of the 12 teams decided Friday to also scrap interleague play. The removal of 18 interleague games from each team's calendar would make for a 125-game regular season.nfl nike jerseys cheap Although no specific date had been set to start the season, the representatives agreed in an online meeting to not start before the end of May. The interleague games between the Central and Pacific leagues have started in May since the format was established in 2005. "It was clear that we were going to have to reduce the number of games," said Shosaku Yokota of the Orix Buffaloes. "We decided that in such a…

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Ex-Cardinal Mark Hamilton finishes medical school, set to fight virus

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AJ Hinch, Jeff Luhnow suspensions fulfilled in 2020 even if MLB season canceled

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Cubs’ Rachel Folden is swinging away at stigma that ‘women can’t coach baseball’

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Blue Jays president says 4 weeks of spring training needed before season

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With no sign of when training camps can resume, Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro says he thinks Major League Baseball would need at least a month of workouts and exhibition games before regular-season play can begin. Opening Day has been postponed until at least mid-May because of the coronavirus pandemic. "Knowing that so many players are not even having any access to throwing at all or hitting at all, but most importantly just throwing, and probably limited access to just training and exercise, it's hard to imagine we could get ready in less than four weeks," Shapiro said in a teleconference with Toronto reporters.cheap nfl jerseys china nike "I do think that we're, by and large, waiting for some sort of flattening of the curve and recognition that we have…

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Yankees’ Aaron Judge says rib improving, also had collapsed lung

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New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge told reporters Friday that his fractured rib is improving, and he also disclosed that he suffered a partially collapsed lung. Two weeks ago, manager Aaron Boone said a fractured rib revealed by a CT scan was why Judge had been suffering tightness in his shoulder and pectoral area, thus significantly limiting his baseball activities since early February. The Yankees never divulged the pneumothorax, commonly called a collapsed lung. Judge said a scheduled CT scan Friday showed the pneumothorax had fully healed and that had been slight progress in the healing of the rib. Judge said he would have another test in a few weeks "and go from there." With the season delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Judge likely will have time to heal…