The 11th game between Tohoku Rakuten and Fukuoka Softbank will be held at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi from 2:00 p.m. on May 31st.

[Match record] Tohoku Rakuten (5th place) vs. Fukuoka Softbank (4th place) 6 wins, 4 losses

[Scheduled starting pitchers]
Tohoku Rakuten: pitcher Kosei Shoji: 3 games, 1 win, 0 losses, ERA 2.30
Fukuoka Softbank: pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa 3 wins and 3 losses in 8 games, ERA 3.67

Tohoku Rakuten 's starting pitcher Kosei Shoji. In his last game against Hokkaido Nippon-Ham, he gave up 5 hit 1 runs in 6 innings, earning his first win of the season. Last season, he struggled against Fukuoka Softbank with 0 wins and 2 losses in 3 games, with ERA of 8.49. In particular, on May 22nd of that year, he was unable to pitch the first inning and gave up 5 runs. Will he be able to shake off the bad image in their first matchup this season?

On the other hand, Fukuoka Softbank 's starting pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa held the Tohoku Rakuten batting line to 2 hit no runs in 8 innings in the match on the 18th. In his last appearance on the 25th, he gave up 9 runs in the middle of the 5th inning, but he will be looking to correct that for this mound, which comes 5 days after the previous game. In the batting line, Ryoya Kurihara recorded multiple hit for the first time in 16 games in the previous day's game. He has been struggling with batting this season, but can he improve his condition from here?

Written by Kai Nagi Niwa

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