Pacific League Lotte 1-3 Softbank (29th, Zozo Marine)
Softbank pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa allowed four hit one runs in six innings to earn his 10th win. This is his third double-digit win, his first in four years since 2021 when he was with Nippon-Ham Fighters. "I tried not to think about it too much, but I'm glad I was able to clear it," he said, wiping the sweat from his brow.
"The output was out," he said in response to the fastball. Even the low fork took five struck out by the third inning. In the 4th inning, bases loaded was also stopped with 1 run and kept the lead. In August, he won 4 out of 4 matches. "I was causing trouble until after the exchange match, and I wanted to help the team as soon as possible, so I was trying various things. I'm glad that I was able to do this now and lead to a solid result."
They are the fourth team to reach double digits win after Ozeki with 11 wins and Arihara and Moinello with 10 wins. The quartet was born for the first time in 20 years, since Saito, Wada, Sugiuchi, and Aragaki in 2005. Uesawa was 11 years old at the time. At the time, Uesawa was 11 years old, "just barely baseball before he started playing soccer," he said. Still, "I was playing the game. I remember using The Hawks because I wanted to use those four players," he recalled. With a smile, he revealed, "I didn't even know who the aces were because I wasn't playing baseball, but everyone was amazing.
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