{"id":82348,"date":"2012-10-05T09:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T00:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29029"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:07:17","slug":"hawks-into-the-pl-climax-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hawks-into-the-pl-climax-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks Into the PL Climax Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Softbank Hawks have earned a place in the Pacific League Climax Series after finishing the regular season in third place. In Stage 1 of the Climax Series, the Hawks will play second place Saitama Seibu Lions in a best-of-three series at the Lions\u2019 home ground. The winner of Stage 1 will come up against Nippon Ham Fighters (from Hokkaido) in the Stage 2 series. The Fighters start Stage 2 with a one game win advantage as winners of the regular season. Stage 2 is a six game series and all games will be held at the Fighters\u2019 home ground. The winner of Stage 2 will be crowned Pacific League Champion and will take on the winner of the Central League in the seven game Japan Series to determine the champion team of Japan Baseball.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/534403_10151084275112810_1694211245_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/534403_10151084275112810_1694211245_n.jpg?resize=261%2C336\" alt=\"\" title=\"534403_10151084275112810_1694211245_n\" width=\"261\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/534403_10151084275112810_1694211245_n.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/534403_10151084275112810_1694211245_n.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Softbank Hawks have earned a place in the Pacific League Climax Series after finishing the regular season in third place. In Stage 1 of the Climax Series, the Hawks will play second place Saitama Seibu Lions in a best-of-three series at the Lions\u2019 home ground. The winner of Stage 1 will come up against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":29030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82348","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82348","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}