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The
Nippon Professional Baseball is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning simply ''Professional Baseball''; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league ...
season ended with the Seibu Lions defeating the
Chunichi Dragons The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant nine times (most recently in 2011 ...
in the 2004 Japan Series. This season also saw the first and only players strike in Japanese professional baseball history. Players went on strike for two days in September because of the potential mergers and realignment.


Format


Central League

* Season format ** Regular season * Regular season 1st place is the champion


Pacific League

* Season format ** Regular season ** Playoff 1st stage: Regular season 2nd place vs. regular season 3rd place – Best of 3 ** Playoff 2nd stage: Regular season 1st place vs. playoff 1st stage winner – Best of 5 * Playoff 2nd stage winner is the champion


Japan Series

* Central League champion vs. Pacific League champion – Best of 7


Standings

''Note:Two games for each team are cancelled due to players' strike''


Central League


Regular season


Pacific League


Regular season


Playoff 1st stage

Seibu Lions (2) vs. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (1)


Playoff 2nd stage

Fukuoka Daiei Hawks (2) vs. Seibu Lions (3)


Japan Series

Chunichi Dragons (3) vs. Seibu Lions (4)


See also

* 2004 Major League Baseball season


References

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