On 8 April, the first round match between Saitama Seibu and Chiba Lotte was played in Belluna Dome, with Chiba Lotte losing 7-3 to win.

Chiba Lotte started Atsuki Taneichi pitcher. In the bottom of the first inning with a one-run lead, Shinya Hasegawa led off with a doble and Nevin's sacrifice fly from third base with one out tied the game. However, he bounced back after that, retiring three batters in the third and fourth innings. In the bottom of the seventh, with two outs and hit and Walk in scoring position, he put runner in scoring position, but he struck out Shuta Tonosaki on one pitch to fly out to left field to closer the seventh inning hit 3 Walk 1 runs.

With two outs in the first inning, Kyota Fujiwara had runners on first and second with doble and Hit by Pitch and Polanco led off the inning with an RBI single. With the score tied 1-1 in the top of the sixth, Polanco's doble and Eito Takabe's bunt hit and Kyuto Ueda 's Walk loaded the bases loaded with no outs Toshiya Sato The player hit a timely infield hit and succeeded in winning the game. They also had a two-point lead on a push Hit by Pitch. In the top of the seventh, Takabe's two-run RBI single from doble bases loaded with no outs and two sacrifice fly runs scored four runs.

​Rikuto Yokoyama pitcher were runs in the bottom of the eighth and Naoya Masuda in the bottom of the ninth pitcher hit a two-run shot to end the game with a 7-3 win. win Chiba Lotte was pitcher Taneichi, who pitched well in seven innings with a 1 runs and his first win of the season. From the middle of the inning onwards, the bats connected and scored seven runs in 11 hit. Among them, Fujiwara and Takabe recorded 3 hit.

Saitama Seibu, on the other hand, started pitcher Takahashi with a 4 hit 3 Hit by Pitch 1 runs in five innings, and reliever runs a total of 6 . In the bottom of the ninth inning, substitute hitter Takeya Nakamura hit a two-run single in the first inning, but that was the end of the fightback. In addition, Dora 2 and Seiya Watanabe scored 3 hit.

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○ Atsuki Taneichi-Rikuto Yokoyama-Naoya Masuda
West: Shunsuke Sato- Junsuke Sato -Yuta Kuroki-Haruto Yamada- E. Ramirez

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