On May 4, the eighth game between Fukuoka Softbank and Chiba Lotte Marines in MIZUHO PayPay Dome ended with Fukuoka Softbank win 5-3.

Fukuoka Softbank Starter Jun Maeda pitcher carried runner in scoring position in the first 3 inning, but did not allow a goal in the pitch to tighten the key points. However, in the top of the 4th inning, 2 hit and Walk led to a pinch with 2 outs and bases loaded, Soto hit a timely doble with 2 runs and left the mound with 5 hit 5 Walk 3 strike out 2 runs in 3.2 innings of 79 pitches. Shuto Ogata pitcher, who took over from 2nd and 3rd base with 2 outs, hit Polanco with a fly ball.

The batting line that wanted to counterattack was Taisei Makihara in the bottom of the 4th inning with 2 outs and 2 bases with hit and stolen base, and Hiroki Minei player tied the game with 2 runs in the 1st. Furthermore, in the bottom of the 5th inning, Isami Nomura succeeded in winning with his No. 2 solo. In the top of the 6th inning, 3rd runner Koya Fujii pitcher tied the score again, but immediately after that, in the bottom of the 6th inning, Makihara's hit and sacrifice bunt took the lead with a timely hit by Ryuta Hirose from 2nd base with 1 out.

In the top of the seventh, Kazuki Sugiyama pitcher, the fourth baseman, hit a three-way strikeout for the first time in the game for the first time in the game, and in the bottom of the seventh, Riku Ogata hit a timely hit from third base with two outs to make the score 5-3. In the top of the eighth, Yuki Matsumoto pitcher closer to runs, and in the top of the ninth with a two-run lead, Osuna pitcher closed the game with a three-way strikeout.

win Fukuoka Softbank won three consecutive wins on the same card for the first time this season. Makihara scored 3 hit. On the other hand, the losing Chiba Lotte Marines was started by starter Kazuya Ojima pitcher 4 innings 63 pitches, 6 hit 1 Walk 3 strike out 2 runs. The runs of the relief team also overlapped and they couldn't stick to it. In addition, Raito Ikeda player recorded 3 hit and Soto 2 hit 3 RBI.

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Kazuya Kazuya Ojima-Yuto Kimura-Fumiya Ono-Riku Kikuchi
Jun Jun Maeda-Shuto Ogata- Koya Koya Fujii-Kazuki Sugiyama-Yuki Matsumoto- S Osuna

Text by Aoi Yokoyama

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