On February 28th, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Hiroshima opened at Kurashiki Muscat Stadium, and Tohoku Rakuten Eagles lost 3-5.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 's starter, Tatsuki Koja pitcher, allowed hit in the top of the first and second innings and the lead hitter, but the follow-up was cut off. In the top of the 3rd and 4th innings, he closer to a three-way retirement and went down to mound. 2nd place Uchi Seiryu pitcher is a no-runs in 1 inning .

However, Masaru Fujii pitcher, who took the mound in the top of the 6th inning, led by Shoichi Futamata's doble and other runners, causing a pinch with 2 outs and 3rd base, and Shosei Nakamura allowed the first run with a timely hit. pitcher Fujii also hit consecutive hits in the top of the 8th inning with 1 out on 1st and 2nd base, but he has survived this pinch.

The batting line was in a difficult situation where they could not give up hit until the bottom of the 7th inning in front of the opponent's pitcher camp, but in the bottom of the 8th, McCusker's first solo shot tied the game. In addition, an error and a bad throw to make it to third base with no outs, and Gonzalez's sacrifice fly won the game. Furthermore, when dropped third strike got a chance to get two outs and second base, pinch hitter Daisuke Nakashima hit a timely hit to make the score 3-1.

However, in the top of the ninth, pitcher Fujii was hit by Keisuke Sato and Ren Hirakawa Home Run consecutive hits to tie the game. Furthermore, from third base with one out, Haruto Nakagomi pitcher allowed Futamata to score with two runs.

For Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, starter Kosa pitcher pitched 4 innings with 2 hit no Hit by Pitch walks and 1 strike out runs pitch in 4 innings. However, Masaru Fujii pitcher, who was in third place, did not stick with 3.0 innings, 56 pitches, 7 hit 1 Hit by Pitch 3 strike out 4 runs (earned runs 3). The batting line scored three runs, including a Home Run to the new McCusker, but it was not the first win in the open game.

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Hiroshi Mori Shohei - Suzuki Kenya - Ikee Atsuya - Akagi Haruya - ○ Endo Junji - S Masuda Takehisa
Tatsuki Koja-Uchi Seiryu- ● Masaru Fujii-Haruto Nakagomi-Yuki Hayashi

Written by Riyoko Niwa