[Softbank] First loss in 37 years in opening 3 games, first loss at home in history, third consecutive loss due to failure to decide on their proud relief pitching

Sports Hochi

2025.3.30(日) 16:08

◆ Pacific League Softbank 4-7 Lotte (30th, Mizuho PayPay Dome)

Last season's champion, Softbank, unexpectedly started the season with three straight losses. It was the first time in 37 years since 1988, when the Nankai team lost 7 games in 7 games, that they had lost 3 games in 3 games since the season opener. This was the first time in the team's history that they had lost three games in a row at their home field. Relief pitchers, who Kokubo had been confident of before the season opener, were all over the place, runs, and the team lost the game of succession on the 29th and suffered a third consecutive day of back-to-back defeats.

Starter Uezawa, who had pitched well with 1 hit 1 runs until the sixth inning, was replaced with two outs and the bases loaded in the seventh inning. He replaced Hernandez with a 150 struck out kph strikeout from Sato at 150 kph and replaced him with Hernandez, but Polanco hit an RBI doble to left-center field and then allowed Oka to tie the game at two runs on a two-run doble from second and third base. In the eighth inning, Sugiyama scored the winning run on back-to-back wild pitches from second base with two outs. Ogata scored two runs in the ninth inning.