On March 15, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham lost the open match between The Giants and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham in Tokyo Dome, 1-8.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham 's starter, Kohei Arihara pitcher, runs the first two innings. However, in the bottom of the 3rd inning, Kota Hirayama and Riku Masuda lost 2 runs due to timely hits. In the bottom of the 4th inning, Hirayama's No. 1 solo, and in the bottom of the 5th, Masuda's No. 1 2 runs, the score was 0-5. In the bottom of the 6th inning, he went up to mound and left the mound with one out. Taisho Tamai pitcher took over, but he couldn't stop the momentum of the opponent's batting line and was hit by Dalbec with 3 runs in the first place.

On the other hand, the batting line advanced runner into scoring position until the 6th inning, but there was not one more run. Still, in the top of the 7th inning, Yuya Shindo scored one run on a solo No. 1 solo, and the relief team connected Takahide Ikeda pitcher and Takumi Yamamoto pitcher each with a inning from the 7th inning runs. It was a batting line that wanted to repay one arrow, but the game ended in the top of the ninth inning with a three-way retirement.

In the losing Hokkaido Nippon-Ham, starter Arihara pitcher was unable to create a game with 5.1 innings, 97 pitches, 6 hit 4 walks, Hit by Pitch 7 strike out 5 runs. The batting line hit 11 hit but lacked connection, scoring only one run in Home Run. In addition, Shun Mizutani and Kota Yazawa have scored 2 hit.

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Japan ● Kohei Arihara-Taisho Tamai-Takahide Ikeda-Takumi Yamamoto
Giants ○ Takahiro Norimoto-Ryuji Kitaura- Kitaura Ryuji - Tanaka Eito - Nakagawa Kota

Text by Hiroki Tanijima