{"id":147120,"date":"2022-06-29T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=147120&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2022-06-29T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T00:30:41","slug":"softbank-hawks-baseball-hit-with-c19-infections-game-canceled","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/softbank-hawks-baseball-hit-with-c19-infections-game-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank Hawks Baseball Hit With C19 Infections &#8211; Game Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SoftBank <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hawks<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Fukuoka\u2019s professional baseball team, announced that five players, including pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada, a coach, and two staff members, have been infected with the new coronavirus. According to the baseball team, the infection was confirmed on June 28 in a PCR test conducted on all players, including those on the first team. Wada was scheduled to start tonight\u2019s game against Lotte at Tokyo Dome after reaching 150 wins in Japan and the U.S. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The game scheduled for June 29 has been canceled. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/fukuoka-news\/20220627\/5010016217.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-133167\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hawks-baseball-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SoftBank Hawks Baseball Hit With C19 Infections - Game Canceled\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hawks-baseball-WEB-001.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hawks-baseball-WEB-001.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hawks-baseball-WEB-001.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hawks-baseball-WEB-001.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Get Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu area news and events in English regularly.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sign up for our <\/span><b>free<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> weekly newsletter. Opt out at any time and privacy is protected. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the \u201cNow\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disclaimer: These summaries are from publicly posted contents. Errors might occur during translation. Images are sourced independently for illustrative purposes and credited appropriately. Use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback or ask for edits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Hawks, Fukuoka\u2019s professional baseball team, announced that five players, including pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada, a coach, and two staff members, have been infected with the new coronavirus. According to the baseball team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":147117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-147120","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-momochi-nishijin","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/147120","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}