{"id":114794,"date":"2018-10-22T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=114794&lang=en"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:38:20","slug":"softbank-hawks-soar-past-seibu-lions-to-advance-to-japan-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/softbank-hawks-soar-past-seibu-lions-to-advance-to-japan-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank Hawks Soar Past Seibu Lions to Advance to Japan Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Sunday Oct. 21 the Softbank Hawks defeated the Seibu Lions for the fourth time in five games to win the Climax Series and advance to the Japan Series against the Hiroshima Carp. Yuki Yanagita was named the MVP of the series. He batted in four runs in yesterday\u2019s game alone. The Japan Series will kick off on Saturday, Oct. 27 and Sunday Oct. 28 in Hiroshima and then continue in Fukuoka on the 30th, 31st and Nov. 1. If the Hawks need more wins, the series will return to Hiroshima on Nov. 3 and 4. <\/p>\n

\"\"

\u00a9SoftBank HAWKS<\/p><\/div>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Sunday Oct. 21 the Softbank Hawks defeated the Seibu Lions for the fourth time in five games to win the Climax Series and advance to the Japan Series against the Hiroshima Carp. Yuki Yanagita was named the MVP of the series. He batted in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":114795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-114794","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/114794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}