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2025 Japan Series
Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series
2025 Japan Series
The 2025 Japan Series (日本シリーズ, Nippon Shirīzu; branded as the SMBC Nippon Series 2025 for sponsorship reasons) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2025 season. The 76th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff series played between the Central League (CL) Climax Series champion Hanshin Tigers and the Pacific League (PL) Climax Series champion Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. The Hawks defeated the Tigers in five games. SoftBank returned to the Japan Series for the second consecutive year after losing the previous year to the CL's third-seeded team. This was their 22nd overall appearance, a new PL record. For Hanshin, this was their eighth Japan Series overall appearance, with their last coming in 2023, a series that they won to secure their first championship in 38 years. The Hawks won all three previous meetings between the two teams in the championship round, with the last time being 2014. As per NPB tradition, home field advantage was awarded...
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