Spectators are seen during Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) game between SoftBank Hawks against Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, as the first time the baseball league began allowing up to 5,000 fans into the each game amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, July 10, 2020, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
KOBE (Reuters) - A day that began with joy at a return to something resembling normality ended in disappointment for baseball teams the Yomiuri Giants and Yakult Swallows who saw the first game of the season with fans allowed in washed out and postponed on Friday.
The Nippon Professional Baseball league began in mid-June, delayed by three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but without fans.
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