The 2020 Nippon Series started yesterday with Tomoyuki Sugano of the Giants and Kodai Senga of the Hawks as the Game One pitching matchup. I'm not going to say too much about the results of Game One and Game Two today other than to suggest that if you're planning on watching a game of the Series live, do it either Tuesday or Wednesday because it's not likely there will be any games after that.
Jim Allen pointed out that yesterday's game was the first official game in which Sugano and Senga faced each other. While I'm sure that's true, it was not the first game they've appeared in together. Both pitches were members of Samurai Japan for the 2017 World Baseball Classic and there were at least two games in which Sugano started and Senga appeared in relief - Japan's 4-1 first round defeat of Australia on March 8th and their 2-1 semi-final loss to Team USA on March 21st. Here's a card of each of them from Topps' various WBC issues from that year:
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| 2017 Bowman "Paper Prospects" #BP98 |
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| 2017 Topps Now WBC #W-62 |
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