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| Dates | October 26 – November 3, 2024 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka (SoftBank) Yokohama Stadium (DeNA) | |||||||||
| MVP | Masayuki Kuwahara (DeNA) | |||||||||
| FSA | Kenta Imamiya (SoftBank) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Hideto Fuke, Shinichiro Hara, Masaharu Kasahara Katsumi Manabe, Kazuaki Nako, Naoto Shikita, Tetsuo Yamaji | |||||||||
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| Television | TBS, NHK-BS, Fuji TV, TV Asahi, TVer, U-Next, Abema | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Koji Akiyama, Norichika Aoki, Keisuke Hatsuta, Kimiyasu Kudo, Hiromi Makihara, Masatoshi Namba, Etsuo Nitta, Hirotoshi Sakanashi, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Tomoya Satozaki, Toshiya Sugiuchi, Daiki Tanaka, Seiichi Uchikawa | |||||||||
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The 2024 Japan Series (日本シリーズ, Nippon Shiriizu) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2024 season. The 75th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Central League (CL) and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Pacific League (PL). The series began on October 26 and ended on November 3 with the BayStars winning in six games. It was the BayStars' first Japan Series appearance and win since 2017 and 1998 respectively, and the Hawks' first Japan Series appearance since 2020.
The Hawks were the best team in NPB all season and won the PL title, which advanced them directly to the final stage of the PL Climax Series where they swept the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to advance to the Japan Series. The BayStars finished the regular season third in the CL, allowing them to face off against the Hanshin Tigers in the first stage of the CL Climax Series. After sweeping the Tigers in two games, DeNA took the CL-winning Yomiuri Giants to an ultimate Game 6 in the final stage and won to clinch their Japan Series berth.
SoftBank won the first two games of the series and extended their record consecutive Japan Series win streak to fourteen games. DeNA broke the streak, however, and won the next four games. In that stretch, they kept the Hawks scoreless for 29 consecutive innings, a Japan Series record. The championship was the BayStars' first in 26 years and their third overall. Masayuki Kuwahara was named the Japan Series Most Valuable Player.