On September 16, in the 17th round of the Eastern League regular season match between Saitama Seibu and The Giants in CAR3219 Field, Saitama Seibu lost 3-6.

Saitama Seibu 's starter, Shinya Sugai pitcher, allowed Hernandez to take the lead in the top of the third inning with Walk two outs and two bases on sacrifice bunt. However, in the bottom of the third inning immediately after the batting lineup, Sena Tsuge 's doble and Hiroto Saito 's sacrifice bunt created a good opportunity with one out and third base. Here, Taiga Hirasawa player hit a sacrifice fly and quickly equalized.

pitcher Sugai left the mound in the top of the 6th inning after being hit by Ayumu Nakata with one out and doble. Ryosuke Moriwaki pitcher, who replaced him, cut off the follow-up and got through with no runs. However, in the top of the 7th inning, when the score was 1-1, Yoshinobu Mizukami pitcher was hit by Yu Aramaki with 2 runs in the 3rd and was overcome.

In the bottom of the 8th inning chasing 2 runs, Saito's hit and an enemy error made it 1st and 3rd base with no outs, and Yuta Nakamikawa returned 1 run with a timely hit. In addition, Reon Murata player's hit opened up the chance with no outs bases loaded, followed by a Takeya Nakamura player's sacrifice fly to make it 3-3. At the end of the game, the game was brought back to the beginning.

​Ichiro Tamura pitcher closer in the top of the ninth, and the game went to the extra inning game. In the top of the 10th inning, Taisei Miyazawa pitcher lost 3 runs due to Shunsuke Sasaki's timely triple, etc., and the batting line fell behind it and the game ended 3-6.

Starter pitcher Sugai pitched 5.1 innings, 92 pitches, 5 hit 4 Walk 4 strike out 1 runs. The batting line caught up in the final stages, but Miyazawa pitcher in 6th place was caught. In this match, The Giants won the Eastern League championship for the 29th time in two years.

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Giant Griffin - Toda Kaisei - Tanaka Chiharu - Imamura Nobutaka - Baba Sosuke - S Hotta Kenshin
Shinya Shinya Sugai, Ryosuke Moriwaki, Takeru Sasaki, Yoshinobu Mizukami Sasaki, Ichiro Tamura, and Taisei Miyazawa

Written by Yokazu Sonoda

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