The 2007 Nippon Professional Baseball interleague season wraps up this weekend, except for a few previously rained out games that will be made up on Monday and Tuesday. Then the regular Central and Pacific League schedules resume on Friday and continue through the remainder of the season.
The Chiba Lotte Marines and Yokohama BayStars will play a make-up game at Chiba Marine Stadium on the 25th, and there are two makeup contests to be played on Tuesday. The Yomiuri Giants will travel to Sendai to face the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles to make up a game rained out on May 25, and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters face the BayStars in Yokohama.
This year, the number of "koryu-sen," or interleague games, was reduced by 33 percent, from 36 per team to 24, requiring the scheduling of two-game series instead of the usual three-game sets.
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