The 11th game between Tohoku Rakuten and Chiba Lotte will be held at Tokyo Dome from 6:00 p.m. on May 15th.

[Match results] Tohoku Rakuten (tied for 4th place) vs. Chiba Lotte (6th place) 7 wins, 3 losses

[Scheduled starting pitchers]
Tohoku Rakuten: pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa: 6 games, 1 win, 3 losses, ERA 2.11
Chiba Lotte: pitcher Sammons: 1 game, 0 wins, 0 losses, ERA 4.50

Tohoku Rakuten will start with pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa. He has pitched 38.1 innings this season with ERA of 2.11, but has only received two runs of support during pitch. He will be hoping to get the momentum going and grab win since April 4th. As for the batting lineup, Hideto Asamura, who had been hitting poorly since the start of May, has six At Bat hit in the last five games. He had three hit the day before, and is just three hits away from reaching 2,000 hit.

The starting pitcher for Chiba Lotte was Sammons. In his first appearance in Japan on the 7th against Tohoku Rakuten, he walked 5 Walk in the 2nd inning and had trouble controlling his pitches. The team was struggling with 5 straight losses, so he took the mound. Will he be able to get back to his usual pitch and stop the losing streak?

Written by Kai Nagi Niwa

・ Pacific League standings /individual results