On 30 March, the third round match between Orix and Tohoku Rakuten was played in Kyocera Dome Osaka, where Orix win 6-1.

Orix batted first in the bottom of the second inning when Kotaro Kobayashi loaded the bases with no outs on a doble and Yuma Tongu led off the inning with an RBI doble. Keita Nakagawa followed with hit singles, and with one out and Sho Fukunaga on third base, and with two outs and one out, Ryo Ota from second base hit RBI singles to score three runs in the inning.

Starter Taito Takashima pitcher carried a runner on his back every time from the first to the third inning, but got through the runs without a hit. But in the top of the fourth, he gave up a Walk to the leadoff hitter and loaded the bases with two outs Hiroto Kobukata The player's timely triple at 1 runs. He then allowed a hit run with two outs in the top of the fifth, but got the next two batters to closer on a grounder to infield and retired mound on 74 pitches in the fifth inning hit 1 Walk 1 runs.

In the bottom of the fifth, Ryo Ota hit loaded the bases with two outs and Yutaro Sugimoto hit a two-run single to make the score 5-1. From the sixth inning, Hiroshi pitcher, Seiryu Kotajima pitcher and Perdomo pitcher each connected for 1 inning scoreless, and in the top of the eighth, they added one more run on an RBI single by Ota. With a five-run lead heading into the bottom of the ninth inning, Yoshihisa Hirano pitcher closed out the game with a no-nonsense pitch.

In the Orix win, Ota scored 4 hit 2 RBI and Kotaro Kobayashi scored 3 hit for the second consecutive game, for a total of 16 hit 6 points. On the other hand, Tohoku Rakuten struggled in the loss, with starter Wataru Karashima pitcher allowing 7 hit on 43 pitches in 1.2 innings with no outs Walk 1 strike out 3 runs. The offense also scored just one run while throwing a total of 11 hit. Yuya Ogo, Rui Muneyama, Toshiki Abe and Franco have scored 2 hit.

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Easy ● Wataru Karashima-Tomotaka Matsui-Masaya Nishigaki- Tali
○Yasutoshi Takashima - Hiroshi -Seiryu Kotajima- Perdomo -Yoshihisa Hirano

Text by Aoi Nishijima