◆ Pacific League Rakuten Eagles 2-4 Softbank Hawks (31st, Rakuten Eagles Mobile)

Rakuten Eagles Eagles pitcher Kenta Maeda (37) started the home opener against Softbank Hawks on the 31st, but pitcher lose after giving up 5 hit, 5 Walk 2 runs in 4 1/3 innings. This was his first loss in Japanese baseball in 3846 days, since September 19, 2015, against the Chunichi Dragons (Nagoya Dome) when he was with the Hiroshima Carp.

It was Japan's regular season mound first time in 3828 days since the October 7, 15 Chunichi round (Mazda). It's not good," he said. My pitch count increased and I gave up Walk too, so it's not good at all. I'd like to fix it for the next time. If he had won, it would have been his first white star in 3,833 days, since October 2, the same year, against Chunichi (Mazda).

It had been raining in Sendai since the morning that day, but it was stopped at the start of the game at 4:01 p.m. First time. Ken Maeda got off to a good start with a three-way retirement. In the second inning, he allowed a left-handed hit to the leadoff No. 4 Yanagida and carried the runner for the first time. Yamakawa Walk, Kurihara hit a right-handed hit and bases loaded no outs. However, No. 7, Nomura's third straight flew in front of fielder, and third base runner Yanagida could not return. Lucky double play made it 2 outs, 1st and 2nd base, and did not give up a run with an empty swing struck out Unno.

The third inning immediately after receiving one run of support. From the first out, he hit and Walk on first and second base and again carried runner in scoring position. From the second out, Yanagida, who is the same "88 generation", caught a 147 km fastball and was considered a timely hit to the right. In the 4th inning, from bases loaded with one out, Shuto presented the winning left sacrifice fly. Here, he became the seventh person in history to reach 2500 innings pitched in Japan-U.S., but it was a frustrating moment to achieve a record. He continued to pitch in the 5th inning, but left the mound with a fastball Walk to Yanagimachi in the lead.

The right-handed pitcher, who has 165 career wins in Japan and the US and played in the majors until last season, struggled with control on this day, strike 44 strikes and 39 balls out of 83 pitches, for strike rate of approximately 53%. He also seemed concerned about mound was different in hardness and other aspects compared to the US. Furthermore, he threw only 16 fastballs that day, relying mainly on off breaking ball pitch such as slider and change-up.

Rakuten Eagles The batting line took the lead in the 2nd inning with a timely hit to the left by Ota, who played the role of Ken Maeda's wife, but in the 5th inning with 2 outs and bases loaded, Asamura fell on a swinging struck out, and the Softbank Hawks starter Ozeki could not be broken. In the 8th inning chasing 2 runs, WBC Japan national teamYutaka Matsumoto hit a timely hit to the right front, and as a 1 run, it was still 1 out, 1st and 3rd base, but pinch hitter Yoshi Watanabe flew in the middle, and Nao Sato, who joined from Softbank Hawks in the active draft, could not catch up with a swinging struck out. The team lost three consecutive games after win in the opening game.