◆ Although he pitched well in his last appearance, Emoto said, "closer was too eager to hold them back, so I wasn't very stable."

Orix 's Alen Kuri started against Chunichi on the 18th. closer the score at zero until the third inning, but in the fourth inning, consecutive hits put him in a pinch with runners on first and second with no runs, and he gave up a three-run Home Run to Bosler to turn the game around. After that, Walk, doble, and made an error, loading the bases with no bases loaded, and gave up one run on an RBI hit by Ishii Yuta. Kuri left the game after four innings, throwing 77 pitches, giving up six hit strike out one Walk four runs.

In his last appearance, Kuri pitched well, allowing no runs in the eighth inning, but collapsed in the fourth inning on this day and suffered his fourth loss. On the 18th, Takagi Yutaka appeared on Fuji TV ONE's "Professional baseball News 2025" and asked, "He suddenly collapsed in the second round. Is there a reason for this?" Emoto Masanori pointed out, "He held closer back a little too long. Since his time with Hiroshima, he's been trying too hard to hold them back, and closer 's why he's not as stable...he has a good pitch, though."

Takahiro Saeki commented on the content of Kuri's pitch, "I had a very good pitch in the last match against DeNA, and I thought that I corrected the bad points in the previous match against Hiroshima. We had a very good start today, but all of a sudden, the change-up ball started to float," Takagi said, "There was a part of me that thought I should throw a lot of breaking ball and think a little bit about the distribution of the ball, but if I think about it a little bit, I think it will be a different pitch."

☆ Cooperation: Fuji TV ONE "Professional baseball News 2025"