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

They scored effectively to beat Softbank 6-3 and make one save again. In the second inning, No. 5 lefty Toshiki Abe led off the inning with a solo shot over the left-field wall. In the fourth inning, No. 8 catcher Kengo Horiuchi hit a walk-off grounder to RBI for the first time in six years, and in the fifth, with two outs and bases loaded on third, No. 6 Itsuki Murabayashi added three runs on a sweep RBI doble to left-center, "I'm glad I was able to hit it because it was an opportunity that everyone connected on." He scored one run in the eighth inning on an RBI single to right field for his first hit of the season, Kazuki Tanaka. Uchi Seiryu, making his second start of the season, pitched seven runs innings to earn his first win. They came close to a three-run deficit in the ninth inning, but Shoma Fujihira closed it out.

No. 3 hitter and first baseman Hideto Asamura hit a line drive to center field in his first at-bat, leaving him 11 hits away from reaching 2,000 career hit. In his third at-bat, he was hit by Hit by Pitch on his left thigh, which gave him a close call, but he continued playing and was replaced in the seventh defense.

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