Lotte vs Softbank (14:00 Zozo Marine) Lotte = Kojima, Softbank = Arihara
On the 5th, Arihara will start for Softbank in the final game of the regular season against Lotte. Arihara has 13 wins and 9 losses in 25 appearances so far. On the 4th, Ito (Nippon-Ham), who led the league with 14 wins, failed to record a win, so if Arihara wins, he will have 14 wins and will tie Ito for the most wins. These two also shared the most wins last year with 14 wins, making it the first time in professional baseball history that the same two players have the most wins two years in a row.
Yakult In the past, Kazuyuki Ono (Central League) and Akimitsu Ito (Chunichi) won 18 games in 1988 and Masaki Saito (The Giants) and Sei Nishimoto (Chunichi) won 20 games in 1989, becoming the most winners pitcher for two consecutive years. In the Pacific League, Fumiya Nishiguchi (Seibu) and Hideo Koike (Kintetsu) won 15 games in 1997, Fumiya Nishiguchi (Seibu), Kazuhiro Takeda (Daiei), and Tomohiro Kuroki (Lotte) won 13 games in 1998, Takeshi Wada (Softbank) and Chihiro Kaneko (Orix) won 17 games in 2010, and Halton (Softbank) and Masahiro Tanaka (Rakuten) won 19 games in 2011, creating multiple most wins pitcher in two consecutive years. However, it is unprecedented to have the same two players win the most games two years in a row.
Will this really be the first time in history?
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☆ Rakuten vs. Orix (14:00, Rakuten Mobile) Rakuten = Shoji, Orix = Yamaguchi
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