On March 31, the first game between Hokkaido Nippon-Ham and Chiba Lotte Marines was played in ES CON FIELD, and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham won comfortably 9-0.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham starter Haruki Hosono pitcher suddenly gave Walk to Eito Takabe in the first inning, but continued Kyota Fujiwara Players hit double play. If you show a no-runs start, the second and third innings will be a three-way exit. In the top of the 4th inning, he gave up his first runner since the first inning with a Hit by Pitch to Fujiwara from one out. Fujiwara also scored a stolen base, and although it became 2 outs and 2 bases, Polanco was finished off with a struck out.

In the second half of the game, the three-way retirement continued, and in the top of the eighth, the three consecutive strike out. In the top of the ninth inning with no hits, pinch hitter Hiromi Oka and the following Ryusei Ogawa player were hit with a infield grounder. From 2 outs, pinch hitter Koki Yamaguchi got on base due to an error by a teammate, but in the end, Fujiwara missed and set the game with struck out.

On this day, Hosono pitcher threw 128 pitches in 9 innings, allowing hit 0, Yoshi Hit by Pitch 2, and strike out 12. In addition, no hitter is the 103rd time since Hiroshima Daichi Osera pitcher in 2024, and in Pacific League, since Yo pitcher shinobu Yamamoto in 2023, and since Ponce pitcher in 2022.

On the other hand, the batting line exploded in the bottom of the second inning. With one out, infield hit of the Tatsuki Mizuno players from first and second base invited the opponent's bad throw, and in the meantime, the runner of second base stepped on the home plate to take the lead. Yua Tamiya scored an additional run with a timely hit, and Kotaro Kiyomiya and Reyes hit two consecutive home run from first and second base with two outs, making it 7-0 in this inning alone.

In the bottom of the seventh, Kiyomiya and Reyes hit two consecutive arches for the second time in the game, and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham won the game. He stopped his losing streak from the opening with 3 and scored his first win of the season. On the other hand, Chiba Lotte Marines 's batting line was blocked by Hosono pitcher and suffered two consecutive losses.

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● Yuto Kimura-Atsuya Hirohata
Japan ○ Haruki Hosono

Text by Ayako Kikuchi