On March 8, the open game between Tohoku Rakuten and Saitama Seibu took place at the Shizuoka Kusanagi Stadium, with Saitama Seibu winning 3-2 win.

First to go... Yutaro Watanabe pitcher is the first time, Rui Muneyama bases loaded In the bottom of the 4th inning, he allowed a hit to a player, but cut down the following inning, and in the following 2nd and 3rd inning, he got out of a closer jam with one out hit and 2 Walk, but he got out of it with 2 consecutive struck out to no runs, and in the following 5th inning, he retired the next 3.

Both teams were scoreless in the top of the fourth inning, Keisuke Nakata Player's hit from first base with one out, Reon Murata The first run was scored with a timely doble from the player. With two more outs and a runner on second base, Takuya Hiruma The players also had timely hits to make it 2-0.

In the 8th inning, with two outs and a runner on third base Montel After adding a run on a timely hit by Taiga Ueda pitcher The bottom of the eighth inning will also be runs without closer. In the bottom of the last 9 innings, Masaya Kuroda pitcher to mound. After consecutive hits put runners on first and second with no outs Yukiya Ito Timely hitting by a player, still 2 deaths from bases loaded Daisuke Nakashima A push to a player Walk brought the score to one, but he ended up hitting a ground ball to end the game.

Saitama Seibu, which win was up 3-2, got a good pitching performance from Watanabe pitcher, who threw 2 hit 2 Walk 6 strike out no runs pitches in 83 pitches in 5 innings. He showed his appeal to become a starter in the starting rotation. On the batting line, Nakata got on base 2 hit 4 times. On the other hand, Tohoku Rakuten was the starter and Takahisa Hayakawa pitcher is 4 times 64 pitches 3 hit 2 Walk 1 strike out 2 runs. Rui Muneyama player, Yoshiaki Watanabe The players each marked 2 hit.

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West: Yutaro Watanabe-Taiga Ueda-Masaya Kuroda
Raku ● Takahisa Hayakawa- Howard -Haruto Nakagomi-Ryuta Konno

Text by Hayato Sugimori

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