An exhibition game between the Yomiuri The Giants and the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles will be held at Tokyo Dome on March 20th at 6 PM.
The Tohoku Rakuten Eagles Golden Eagles are keeping an eye on Itsuki Murabayashi. He has gone hit in his last four games and has struggled in the 14 preseason games, with only 6 hit in 37 At Bat-bats for a batting average of .162. Last season was a career-high for Murabayashi, who won the most hit title, was named to the Best Nine team, and received the Mitsui Golden Glove Award. Can he improve his form in the remaining three games and be ready for opening day?
Can Itsuki Murabayashi break out of his slump? He has a batting average of .162 in 14 exhibition games.
Pacific League Insight
![[Farm Team] Gonzalez hits a go-ahead 3-run homer (his 3rd of the season). Haruto Sakai pitches a scoreless 6 innings to end the Eagles' losing streak.](https://media.insight.pacificleague.com/webp/FTLKiXHfqiZ9aeuU5rKgzz4HiwfsIUWQa3MdH6pS.webp)
![[Farm Team] Kane Edokpolo hits his first regular season Home Run and game-winning hit as Hokkaido Nippon-Ham win close game](https://media.insight.pacificleague.com/webp/SCJZst2S788YBmrOw9KUk0fAooj6EwEWTUdp40ZA.webp)
![[Farm League] Hokkaido Nippon-Ham suffers heavy defeat with poor pitching and hitting; Yi-Lei Sun strikes out 8 in the middle of the 5th inning.](https://media.insight.pacificleague.com/webp/mM2ofvJDwEX8Ahk7SFI9Aio2CgTizZBplModSNWL.webp)
![[Farm League] Hokkaido Nippon-Ham lost 1-5, but Ryohei Hosokawa had 2 hit 1 RBI.](https://media.insight.pacificleague.com/webp/EFfVn0RwZEzpdY31d7EHlF93BUsRbD2jl48b8kmu.webp)
