◆Pre-season game Softbank Hawks and The Giants (12th, Mizuho PayPay)

Softbank Hawks has announced starting line-up for the game against The Giants.

The starter mound will be Naoyuki Uwasawa who is scheduled to start pitcher on the 27th against Nippon-Ham (Mizuho Peipay). In his last appearance on the 5th against Yakult (Mizuho Peipay), he pitched 4 innings of no-hit runs. He is expected to pitch more inning on this day as well, and he is adjusting well.

The clean-up fielder are Yanagi, Yamakawa, and Kurihara. Imamiya will start as the ninth batter and second baseman.

The Hawks' starting line-up is as follows:

[Softbank]

1 (center) Yanagimachi

2 (Shortstop) Nomura

3 (finger) Yanagida

4. Yamakawa

5 (3) Kurihara

6 (Left) Masaki

7 (right) Inoue

8 (catcher) Umino

9 (2) Imamiya

(Pitcher) Uesawa