Yamaguchi Home Run in his final at-bat against Rakuten Eagles on August 20th, and then hit three Home Run in a single game up to his third at-bat against Rakuten Eagles on the 21st. He hit four consecutive Home Run 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.

After hitting three Home Run in one game on August 21st, he hasn't hit another home run since, and in the following 20 games, he has a batting average of .200 with 12 At Bat 60 at-hit. He finished the season without Home Run in 64 plate appearances. However, he has explosive power, having hit seven home runs in nine games between August 5th, his first Home Run of the season, and the 21st, so he will want 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 pitched 160 2/3 innings and recorded 161 strike out. His average strike out rate per game (9 strike out) was 9.02. Last year, his rate was 9.04, struck out out more than one batter per inning. He is only the second player in the team's history strike out rate of 9 or higher twice, following Hideki Irabu, who achieved it four times in four consecutive years from 1993 to 1996.

▼...Kojima has finished last in the league's ERA for the third consecutive year. He is only 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 (Hiro) in 2005, 2006, and 2008. Kojima is the first to suffer the humiliation of finishing last in the league's ERA three years in a row.

▼...New import, Boss, suffered eight consecutive losses between May and September. The longest losing streak for a foreign pitcher is nine, recorded by Mikens (Kintetsu) in 1961, Anderson (Chunichi) in 1992, Gissel (Seibu) in 2007, and Nelson (Chunichi) in 2011, but this is the worst in the team's history, surpassing Lee Dae-eun's seven consecutive losses in 2015. He allowed the opposing team to score first in 10 of the 16 games during the losing streak.

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