{"id":136855,"date":"2020-10-27T21:23:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=136855&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T01:05:07","slug":"softbank-hawks-win-pacific-league-championship-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/softbank-hawks-win-pacific-league-championship-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank Hawks Win Pacific League Championship 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While our hometown heroes, the Softbank Hawks, won the Nippon Series the last three years in a row (2017, 2018, and 2019), tonight, they were crowned the Pacific Champions for the first time in three years. Tonight they defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 5 to 1. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hawks will start the Final Stage of the Climax Series with a one-game advantage as league champions. If they win that best of six series, they advance to the Japan Series and might win their fourth consecutive title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-136856\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HAWKS-2020.jpg?resize=1024%2C578&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"HAWKS 2020\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HAWKS-2020.jpg?resize=1024%2C578&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HAWKS-2020.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HAWKS-2020.jpg?resize=768%2C433&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HAWKS-2020.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our hometown heroes, the Softbank Hawks, won the Nippon Series the last three years in a row (2017, 2018, and 2019), tonight, they were crowned the Pacific Champions for the first time in three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":136856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-136855","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\/136855","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}