Interleague play (NPB)
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Interleague play, officially titled Nippon Life Interleague Play for event sponsor Nippon Life, is an event consisting of 108 regular-season baseball games played between Central League and Pacific Le
Yuki Yanagita is the only player to win the event's MVP award twice.
Tomoaki Kanemoto is the only player to win multiple CL Nippon Life Awards, winning them in 2005 and 2008.
Kensuke Kondoh is the only player to win multiple PL Nippon Life Awards, winning them in back to back seasons in 2023 and 2024.
Munetaka Murakami
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Munetaka Murakami is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball. He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Tokyo Yakult Swallo
Interleague play (NPB)
…of the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 108 49 48 11[b] Orix Buffaloes‡ Yoshinobu Yamamoto* Dayán Viciedo Hiromi Itoh* 2022 108 55 53 0 Tokyo Yakult Swallows† Munetaka Murakami Yusuke Oyama Yutaro Sugimoto 2023 108 52 54 2 Yokohama DeNA BayStars† Kazuma Okamoto Shugo Maki Kensuke Kondoh 2024 108 52 53 3 Tohoku Rakuten Golden…
Murakami with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows
Murakami at the 2026 MLB All-Star Game
Murakami with the WBC Japan national team at Tokyo Dome on March 16, 2023