Yamaguchi Home Run in his final at-bat against Rakuten Eagles on August 20th, and hit three Home Run in one game by his third at-bat against Rakuten Eagles on the 21st. He hit four consecutive Home Run in two at-bats over two days.

Home Run of 4 At Bat or more consecutive times is the 23rd and 24th time since Murakami (Ya), who had 5 consecutive at-bats in 22. In Pa, he tied the record for the 10th and 11th time. He was the 7th player in 4 consecutive at-bats, and the second person in the club after Takeo Daigo in 71. In the 4th inning on the 21st, 1 inning 2 Home Run. This was the 22nd and 24th professional baseball tied record.

This season, Yamaguchi only hit seven Home Run in 35 games, and injuries limited his appearances. Among the 23 players who recorded four or more At Bat Home Run his seven Home Run this season was the fewest, falling short of Daigo's 10. His 35 games appearances were also the fewest, far below Allen's 98 games in 1990.

He hasn't hit a home run since August 21st, when he Home Run three in one game, and since then he has had 12 hits in 60 hit At Bat 20 games for a batting average of .200. He finished the season without a home run in 64 Home Run. However, since he hit his first Home Run of the season on August 5th, he had hit seven in nine games up until the 21st, so he has explosive power and would like to play throughout the season.

No team with the highest winning percentage has won since 1970 ▼...Finished last for the 10th time since 2017. They are the ninth team to finish last 10 or more times. On the other hand, although they last won the championship in 2005, they did so in post season, and their season winning percentage is third. The last time they had the highest winning percentage was in 1974. In 1974, they also won post season, which were split into two halves. Excluding post season, no team has won with the highest winning percentage since 1970.

Nishikawa becomes the 12th rookie on the team to reach the required number of at-bats ▼...Rookie Nishikawa has cleared the required number of at-bats, and his batting average of .281 is sixth in the league. He is the 12th rookie on the team to reach the required number of at-bats since Yudai Fujioka in 2018. This season, the other players to reach the required number of at-bats on the team are Fujiwara with 271 and Terachi with 256, with Nishikawa having the highest batting average. Nishikawa is the first rookie on the team to have the highest batting average this year.

▼...Taneichi threw 160 2/3 innings and 161 strike out. his average strike out number per game (strike out rate) of 9 innings converted is 9.02. last year, he also took struck out more than 1 inning at 9.04. He is the second player on the team to have twice strike out exceeded a rate of 9 or more, following Hideki Irabu, who did it four consecutive years from 1993 to 1996.

▼...Kojima finished last in the league ERA for the third time in a row. He is the fourth player to finish last ERA three times, following Junzo Sekine (Kintetsu) in 1950, 1953, and 1955, Takao Kajimoto (Hankyu) in 1958, 1959, and 1966, and Hiroshi Otake (Hiroshima) in 2005, 2006, and 2008. This marks the first time Kojima has achieved the humiliation of finishing last in the league in ERA three years in a row.

▼...New foreign player Boss suffered eight straight losses from May to September. The longest losing streak by a foreign pitcher was nine, set by Mickens (Kintetsu) in 1961, Anderson (Central) in 1992, Gissel (West) in 2007, and Nelson (Central) in 2011, but this is the worst for the team, surpassing Lee Dae-woong's seven straight losses in 2015. During the losing streak, the team allowed the first run in 10 of the 16 games.

▼...The team's stolen base prevention rate of .128 is the lowest since the two-league system was introduced in 1950, below the .146 achieved by Kintetsu in 2000. Individually, Teraji, who met the required rate, had the lowest rate of .128 in both leagues. Sato, who has allowed 21 consecutive stolen base since the start of the season and has a prevention rate of .108 in 58 games as catcher, has allowed 24 consecutive stolen base since the start of the season, giving him a free pass. (Fukuyama Tomoki)