Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

Coordinates: 34°40′50.37″N 135°4′24.3″E / 34.6806583°N 135.073417°E

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Hotto Motto Field Kobe
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ほっともっとフィールド神戸
From the outfield bleachers

Location	Kobe Sports Park, Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan
Coordinates	34°40′50.37″N 135°4′24.3″E / 34.6806583°N 135.073417°E / 34.6806583; 135.073417
Public transit	Kobe Municipal Subway: Seishin-Yamate Line at Sōgō Undō Kōen
Owner	Kobe City
Operator	Orix Baseball Club
Field size	left field: 99.1 m (325 ft) center: 122 m (400 ft) right field: 99.1 m (325 ft)
Opened	March 6, 1988
Orix Bluewave/Orix Buffaloes (Pacific League/NPB, 1991–2004, secondary home 2005–: ) Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (Pacific League/NPB 2011 (temporary))

Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium (神戸総合運動公園野球場, Kōbe Sōgō-Undō-Kōen Yakyūjō) or officially Hotto Motto Field Kobe is a baseball park in Kobe Sports Park, Kobe, Japan. It is primarily used for baseball, and is one of two home fields for the Orix Buffaloes, the other being the Kyocera Dome Osaka.

The Kobe stadium is occasionally used when the Osaka Dome hosts Hanshin Tigers games, due to their home field, Koshien Stadium, being used for the Spring Koshien and Summer Koshien baseball tournaments.

The stadium's field is one of three ballparks in Japan to have an American-style baseball field,: An all-grass outfield and infield, with dirt basepaths. It opened on March 6, 1988 and holds 35,000 people.

Sponsoring names of Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

1988–2002: Green Stadium Kobe (グリーンスタジアム神戸)
2003–2004: Yahoo! BB Stadium (Yahoo! BBスタジアム)
2005–2010: Skymark Stadium (スカイマークスタジアム)
2011–: Hotto Motto Field Kobe (ほっともっとフィールド神戸)^[1]^[2]

Kobe Baseball Stadium is the first baseball park in Japan to install naming rights.

Access

Kobe Municipal Subway Seishin-Yamate Line: Sogo Undo Koen Station (S13)

References

^ Kobe City website Archived 2012-12-03 at the Wayback Machine – February 7, 2011
^ Plenus Co., Ltd. website Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine – February 7, 2011

v t e Current ballparks in Nippon Professional Baseball
Central League	Koshien Stadium (Hanshin Tigers) Mazda Stadium (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) Meiji Jingu Stadium (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) Tokyo Dome (Yomiuri Giants) Vantelin Dome Nagoya (Chunichi Dragons) Yokohama Stadium (Yokohama DeNA BayStars)
Pacific League	Belluna Dome (Saitama Seibu Lions) Es Con Field Hokkaido (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters) Fukuoka PayPay Dome (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) Kyocera Dome Osaka (Orix Buffaloes) Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles) Zozo Marine Stadium (Chiba Lotte Marines)

Orix Buffaloes

Established in 1936
Formerly the Hankyu Club, the Hankyu Braves, the Orix Braves, and the Orix BlueWave
Based in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture

The Franchise

Ballparks

Key personnel

Owner: Yoshihiko Miyauchi
Management: Orix
Manager: Satoshi Nakajima

Japan Series championships (5)

Pacific League championships (15)

Playoff berths (10)

Seasons (88)
1930s	1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s	1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s	1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
2010s	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
2020s	2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

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