Also unlike MLB , game length is limited and tie games are allowed . In the regular season , the limit is twelve innings , while in the playoffs , there is a fifteen-inning limit ( Games in Major League Baseball , by comparison , continue until there is a winner ; the 2002 All-Star Game , an exhibition game , was a notorious exception . ) Additionally , since the 2011 NPB season , an inning occurring three hours and thirty minutes after the first pitch was the final inning , due to power limits imposed because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Professional baseball in Japan