On March 22, Eastern League regular season and Chiba Lotte vs. Saitama Seibu in Lotte Urawa Baseball Stadium in the second round, Chiba Lotte won 10-1.

Chiba Lotte took the lead in the bottom of the third inning with two outs and the bases loaded on an RBI doble by Daito Yamamoto. With bases loaded in the lineup, Aceve and Masami Ishigaki scored five runs in the inning on back-to-back doble. In the bottom of the fourth, Yamamoto scored three runs with one out and runners on second and third base, and in the bottom of the fifth, with two outs and one out, Shinya Matsuishi 's two-run doble RBI single from second base gave the Tigers a 10-0 lead.

Starter Haruya Tanaka pitcher was in trouble early on, but after the third inning, he pitched well without allowing a single runner, and pitched well in the sixth inning, going 2 hit no walk 5 strike out runs no . Yuto Kimura pitcher, who entered the game in the seventh inning, closer a perfect 2 inning, and Yuki Kuniyoshi went to mound in the top of the ninth. With runners on second and third with no outs, Montel gave up one run on a grounder to infield, but the rest of the inning was closer runs and the game ended 10-1.

Yamamoto had 3 hit 4 RBI, including one shot. Shingo Ishikawa, Acevedo, and Ishigaki also scored 2 hit each, for a total of 14 hit. Saitama Seibu, on the other hand, struggled with starter Haruki Sugiyama pitcher going 11 hit 2 Walk 3 strike out 10 runs on 83 pitches in 4.0 innings. The offense was sporadic, scoring only one run in four hit.

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West: Haruki Sugiyama, Ryosuke Moriwaki, and Yoshinobu Mizukami
○ Haruya Tanaka-Yuto Kimura-Yuki Kuniyoshi

Text by Hayato Sugimori

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