Practice Match: Samurai Japan 10-4 Lotte (7th, Sun Marine Stadium Miyazaki)

Lotte faced Samurai Japan, who will participate in the 'Luxas Asia Professional baseball Championship 2026' (November 12-15, Tokyo Dome), in a practice game on the 7th and suffered a major defeat. Misho Nishikawa, who was selected for the national team, performed well with 2 hit and 2 RBI.

The starting pitcher was 20-year-old right-hander Kaishu Takahashi. In the first inning, he gave up a three-run homer to Watanabe and a two-run homer to Hasegawa, surrendering five runs at once. In the following second inning, he allowed three RBI hits to his teammate Nishikawa and others, giving up three more runs. He left the mound after three innings, allowing eight hits and eight runs (one earned). In the sixth inning with the score at 1-8, the second pitcher Yuto Yoshikawa gave up two runs on two RBI hits, extending the lead to 1-10. However, in the seventh inning, they fought back by scoring three runs through Takashi's RBI doble and other plays.

This was the first match under the new leadership of Manager Tadahito Iguchi. It was a game against his former team, Lotte, which he managed from 2018 to 2022. Manager Iguchi was a teammate of Lotte Manager Saburo during their playing days, and in 2010, they won the Climax Series despite finishing third in the regular season, achieving the first-ever 'Gekokujo' (underdog uprising) in history.

This tournament features a roster centered on young players aged 24 and under or within their first three years of joining. From Lotte, pitcher Shunsuke Nakamori (24) and outfielder Misho Nishikawa (23) have been selected, along with outfielder Koki Yamaguchi (26) as an overage player.