On February 15, the practice game between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham at Kinbucho Baseball Stadium ended in a 9-9 draw.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles starter Ryota Takinaka pitcher allowed the first run in the first inning with a timely hit by Yuya Gunji player. Still, in the top of the second inning, he closer to a three-way retirement, and in the second inning, he went down mound with 41 pitches, 2 hit, no walks, Hit by Pitch 2 strike out 1 runs. The second runner, Seiya Ouchi pitcher, lost one run, including a doble hit in the top of the third inning, but after that, he threw 3 inning with a pitch to hit.

The batting line tied the game in the bottom of the 4th inning with no outs on Walk and hit, and Hiroto Kobukata players scored two runs from third base to doble. In addition, with a good opportunity with 1 out and 3rd base, a timely hit was born to the Kengo Horiuchi player and succeeded in winning the game. Rui Muneyama player also hit at the right time and scored 4 runs in the first round of this inning hitter.

In the bottom of the 5th inning, Horiuchi's timely doble and Soyama's 2-run timely hit gave them a 5-run lead. In the bottom of the eighth, Yuya Ogo player hit a timely triple and Yukiya Ito player hit a timely doble and added two more runs, but the third and Naoto Nishiguchi pitcher and the fourth Naoki Hihata pitcher overlapped runs, and the score was tied at 7 runs in the final stages. In the bottom of the ninth, Kei Mizukami player's doble created a good opportunity with 1 out and 3rd base, but they could not take advantage of it, and the game ended with a score of 9-9.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles continued the practice game the day before, scoring a large number of runs and the batting line was active. Soyama scored 3 hit 3 RBI, and Kofukada and Horiuchi scored 2 hit 2 RBI respectively, for a total of 15 hit and 9 points.

On the other hand, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham was a starter with 38 pitches Kota Tatsu pitcher, 2 hit no walks, Hit by Pitch no runs in 2 innings. The batting lineup showed tenacity in the final stages, with subss Yua Tamiya, Yuki Nomura, Kota Yazawa, and Taiki Narama players each scoring RBI, and brought the game to a draw.

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Kota Tatsu-Takumi Yamamoto-Tamon Asari-Kyosuke Kuroyanagi-Ryodai Matsumoto-Kenta Uehara-Tsubasa Namatame-Toshihiro Sugiura-Mizuki Hori
Ryota Takinaka-Seiya Ouchi-Naoto Nishiguchi Naoki Hihata-Yuki Hayashi

Written by Ao Yokoyama