◆ Pacific League Rakuten vs Softbank (26th, Rakuten Mobile)

First-round draft pick Rui Rui Muneyama will play in starting line-up as the seventh batter and shortstop for the second consecutive game. Hideto Asamura, who is 12 hits away from reaching 2,000 career hit, will play as the third batter and first baseman.

starting line-up for both teams are as follows:

[Softbank]

1 (Middle) Makihara University

2 (shortstop) Kawase

3 (3) Kurihara

4 (Finger) Yamakawa

5 (1) Nakamura

6 (Left) Ishizuka

7 (Right) Yanagimachi

8 (2) Hirose

9 (catcher) Umino

Pitcher: Ozeki

[Rakuten]

1 (Right) Komori

2 (2) Kofukuda

3 (1) Asamura

4 (Finger) Franco

5 (left) Abe

6 (3) Murabayashi

7 (Play) Sozan

8 (Catcher) Horiuchi

9 (middle) Nakajima

Pitch

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