The baseball team Doosan Bears will play an exhibition game against Japanese powerhouse SoftBank Hawks.On March 19, Doosan announced, “We will play a practice game against the SoftBank first team on March 3 next year during the 2024 spring training. The game will be played at Fukuoka PayPay Dome, the home stadium of SoftBank.” “This is the first time Doosan will play at PayPay Dome,” the company said.
Doosan has been interacting with SoftBank for a long time, holding trial games at each spring training camp. However, the location of the trial game was Miyazaki, Japan.This time, at SoftBank’s invitation, Doosan decided to hold an exhibition game at the Pepsi Dome, the first team stadium of Nippon Professional Baseball. “There will be paid spectators at the exhibition game on March 3. We will play in an environment similar to that of a regular game.”The relationship between the managers of the two teams is also a topic of discussion.SoftBank appointed Hiroki Kokubo as its new manager after the 2023 season.Kokubo played for Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop and the Yomiuri Giants in 2006.The two former giants of Korean and Japanese 스포츠토토존 professional baseball will be going head-to-head as managers.
