Chiba Lotte Marines
Nippon Professional Baseball team in the Pacific League
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2025 | Roki Sasaki becomes an active player for the Chiba Lotte Marines. |
2023 | Masato Yoshii led the team to Pacific League championships. |
December 20 2023 | Emi Taniho's actual last day with the team as public address announcer. |
October 7 2023 | Public address announcer Emi Taniho received an initial farewell ceremony on her supposed last home game, with many former Marines players in attendance. |
2022 | Mascot Rine-chan changed her cap style to match Mar-kun's baseball cap, and Zu-chan modified his costume to wear an apron instead of a jersey. |
April 10 2022 | Rōki Sasaki threw a perfect game, NPB's first in 28 years, striking out 19 batters and setting a record by striking out 13 consecutive batters. |
2021 | The person playing the Mysterious fish mascot announced their retirement, effectively retiring the mascot character. |
2021 | Hirokazu Sawamura joins the Chiba Lotte Marines. |
2020 | Tadahito Iguchi led the team to Pacific League championships. |
2019 | Kazuya Fukuura retired from professional baseball. |
2018 | Mysterious fish mascot began collaboration with Hawaiian Airlines, connected to former Marines player Benny Agbayani. |
May 2017 | Mysterious fish mascot was introduced as a new mascot character for the Chiba Lotte Marines, featuring a peculiar fish with legs. |
2016 | Cool-kun penguin mascot was officially retired by the team after years of performing acrobatic stunts and engaging with rival team mascots. |
2016 | Yuhei Nakaushiro begins his tenure with the Chiba Lotte Marines. |
2016 | Saburo Omura retired from professional baseball. |
2014 | Shunsuke Watanabe plays for the Chiba Lotte Marines. |
2014 | Tomoya Satozaki retired from professional baseball. |
2013 | Tsutomu Itoh began a period of success, leading the team to multiple championships. |
2012 | Dallas Keuchel joins the Chiba Lotte Marines. Tsuyoshi Nishioka continues playing for the team. |
2011 | Ryohei Tanaka continues playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines. Tsuyoshi Nishioka joins the team. |
2010 | Norifumi Nishimura guided the team to a Pacific League and Japan Series championship. |
2010 | The Marines became the first third-place team to win the Climax Series and subsequently won the Japan Series against the Chunichi Dragons in seven games. |
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