Yun Jihun – 2011211992
Kim Sungha – 2013210000
Monday 11am
Japan and America – Baseball
Japan(NPB)
According to Wikipedia(2014), ”NPB or Nippon Professional Baseball is the highest level of baseball in Japan. The league currently consists of two six-team circuits, the Central League and the Pacific League. The two leagues each scheduled 130, 135 or 140 regular season games. Each season the winning clubs from the two leagues compete in the Japan Series, the championship series of NPB. Japanese baseball games may end in a tie. If the score is tied after nine innings of play, up to three additional innings will be played. If there is no winner after 12innings, the game is declared a draw, except in the postseason which allows 15innings.”(Nippon Professional Baseball). As mentioned earlier, the NPB has two leagues. The two leagues have a difference about designated hitter system. The Pacific League has the designated hitter system, but the Central League does not have a designated hitter system, so a pitcher has to hit. Now, Korean players are playing activities in NPB and they are key players in their teams. Oh Seunghwan is a pitcher who is responsible for saving the innings in Hanshin Tigers. Also, Lee Daeho is a hitter who hits balls a long distance in Softbank Hawks.
America(LA Dodgers)
“The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team located in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of the National League West division of Major League Baseball (MLB). Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers definitively by 1932. The team moved to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. They played their first four seasons in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving to their current home of Dodger Stadium, the third-oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball (after Fenway Park and Wrigley Field)”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers). This team is pretty well on their league, LAD won world championship 6 times 1988, 1981, 1963, 1956, 1955. Their home stadium is Dodgers stadium. San Francisco Giants is the biggest rival. In this year Dodgers win the National league, but lost at the division season against Saint Louis Cardinals, Dodgers has world best starting pitcher, Clayton Kershaw(the best pitcher in U.S), Zack Greinke, Ryu Hyun jin (Korean monster). My most favorite player is Kershaw because not only is he a good player but also his personality, he helps the poor, and sick people. I hope Kershaw and Dodgers have a good 2015 season.
NPB Comparison
Of course, I have a lot of interesting ideas about baseball, so I read the information about LAD in MLB intently. However, I think that the NPB is better than the MLB because the NPB all star team beat the MLB all star team. Recently, there were games of the all star between NPB and MLB. At the all star games, the NPB all star team won three games of four games. The NPB league has the greatest pitchers in my opinion. Actually, the pitchers in the NPB have low ERA(earned run average), so many hitters are hard to hitting pitchers’ ball. However, I like to watch the MLB league because I like Ryu Hyunjin in the LAD too.
LAD Comparison
The information about Japan baseball league is very useful, but I think LAD or MLB is better than NPB and I’ve got several reasons for that. First, MLB is more fun because of how they play, they play more dangerous and they take a risk when they play; however, most of Japan league don’t. Second, the size of league is enormous for example the most expensive baseball team in MLB is New York Yankees worth 3.5 billion dollars, in case of Japan not enough to be a half of Yankees. In my own experience the crowds are different, I saw Yankees versus Boston the crowds are very dynamic and they are fun and interactive, but in case of Japan league crowds are less interactive than MLB crowds. It is different by people in my case I prefer MLB crowds. Finally, I saw MLB more than NPB because of the language, I taught Japanese language in high school, but in my case English is more familiar than Japanese, I prefer NPB than MLB.
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers
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