On September 15th, in the 23rd game between Tohoku Rakuten and Chiba Lotte Marines in Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi, Tohoku Rakuten won walk-off win 5-4.

Tohoku Rakuten starter Howard pitcher allowed a one-run lead in the first inning and then hit two timely hits in the top of the fourth inning and left the game with a total of 3 runs. The following pinch with 2 outs, 1st and 3rd base was closer by Takahiro Norimoto pitcher. Immediately after that, in the bottom of the 4th inning, the batting line had a chance to have 1 out and bases loaded, and the Daichi Suzuki player returned 2 runs with a timely hit and a push Hit by Pitch.

In the top of the 5th inning, Norimoto pitcher of the time, and in the top of the 6th inning, Sora Suzuki pitcher retired with 3 strikes. Then, in the bottom of the 6th inning, with 2 outs, 2nd and 3rd base, Tsuyoshi Ishihara player's 2-run timely hit brought the game back to the starting line. After that, they couldn't take advantage of the opportunity and couldn't win, but the relief team connected with a complete pitch, and the game went into the extra inning game.

From the top of the 10th inning, 7th place Taisei Tsuruzaki pitcher showed a perfect pitch with a 2nd inning hit no four Hit by Pitch. In the top of the 12th inning, Masahiro Ehara pitcher caused a pinch with one out on first and second base, but Yudai Fujioka player was finished off with a double play out. In the bottom of the 12th inning, Yuya Ogo, the leadoff hitter, caught the ball in the outside corner and decided the game with a walk-off home run, which was the team's 2000th memorial bullet.

Tohoku Rakuten, which win, started Howard pitcher 3.2 innings, 66 pitches, 7 hit 1 Hit by Pitch 3 strike out 4 runs (earned runs 3), and the relief team 7 pitcher connected with no runs. Rookie Ehara pitcher is the first professional win. The batting line was 2 hit 1 RBI for Atsuki Muto and 2 hit for Hideto Asamura.

On the other hand, the losing Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Tokito Kawamura was 5.1 innings of 100 pitches, 4 hit 5 walks Hit by Pitch 1 strike out 3 runs (earned runs 1) in 5.1 innings. Soto scored 2 hit 1 RBI in the batting lineup, but after the 5th inning, he was forced to struggle with only 1 hit in front of the opponent's relief team.

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b Tokito Kawamura-Toshiya Nakamura-Keisuke Sawada-Shuta Takano-Fumiya Ono-Rikuto Yokoyama-Hirokazu Sawamura-● Atsuya Hirohata
Raku Howard -Takahiro Norimoto-Sora Suzuki-Masaya Nishigaki-Naoto Nishiguchi-Shoma Fujihira-Tsuruzaki Taisei -○ Masahiro Ehara

Text by Ao Yokoyama

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