Announced starting pitchers for Japanese pro baseball games of Friday, July 17, 2020.
Pacific League
Fighters vs Marines: Sapporo Dome 6 pm, 5 am EDT
Kohei Arihara (0-3, 3.67) vs Ayumu Ishikawa (0-1, 3.96)
Eagles vs Lions: Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi 6 pm, 5 am EDT
Takahiro Norimoto (3-0, 0.98) vs Zach Neal (1-0, 4.44)
Buffaloes vs Hawks: Kyocera Dome 6 pm, 5 am EDT
Tsubasa Sakakibara (0-0, 3.48) vs Nao Higashihama (1-0, 1.96)
Central League
BayStars vs Giants: Yokohama Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT
Shoichi Ino (2-0, 2.45) vs Nobutaka Imamura (-)
Tigers vs Dragons: Koshien Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT
Koyo Aoyagi (2-1, 1.59) vs Yudai Ono (0-2, 4.88)
Carp vs Swallows: Mazda Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT
Daichi Osera (2-1, 2.48) vs Daiki Yoshida (-)
