◆ Pacific League Lotte vs Softbank (11th, Zozo Marine)
Softbank pitcher Kohei Arihara was replaced in the middle of the 7th inning. He left mound when the game was tied, missing his first win of the season. He threw 100 pitches by the 6th inning. He continued pitching in the 7th inning and easily got two outs, but after consecutive hits by Fujiwara and Fujioka put runners on first and second, he gave up an RBI single to right field by Takabe to tie the game, and was taken out of the game.
With one out in the third inning, he struck out Fujioka at third base on a grounder double play. In the fourth inning, with two outs and one out, Ueda singled to left field from second base, but was saved by a home run by left fielder Masaki. With one out in the fifth, he bases loaded grounded out to third on a high grounder double play I survived the pinch repeatedly. Against Lotte on March 28, he went from a perfect pitch in the fifth inning to a 6-runs in the sixth. He pitched well through the third inning against Seibu on the 4th, but was knocked out in the fourth inning by a 6 runs. On this day, on the contrary, tenacious pitch. Considering his pitch count, he was supposed to be replaced after the seventh inning, but he was one out away.
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