◇Tohoku Rakuten Eagles vs. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Open Match (11th, Shizuoka)

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 's No. 1 right-hander, Sota Fujiwara pitcher, pitched five innings without runs.

In the top of the first inning, Walk and a wild pitch made it to second base with one out, but Reyes was infield grounder and Taiki Narama player was finished off with a swing struck out. In the top of the second inning, he retired three times, and in the top of the third, he allowed Shun Mizutani player to hit for the first time, but then took struck out from Ryota Isobata player. In the top of the 4th inning, with 1 out and 1st base, he hit double play and cut off the opponent's attack with 3 people. And in the top of the 5th inning, Hikaru Ota player who was forming a battery stabbed player Haruki Nishikawa who was trying to stolen base, and this time there was no runs.

Fujiwara pitcher, who had pitched in two open games so far and pitched well with 4 inning runs, threw 73 pitches in 5 innings on this day, allowing hit 2, BB 3, strike out 4, and no runs. He left a result in entering the starting rotation with good pitching.

Text: Ayako Kikuchi