◆ Pacific League Nippon-Ham 3-1 Rakuten Eagles (21st, ES CON FIELD)

Rakuten Eagles He started Kosei Shoji pitcher (25) against Nippon-Ham and suffered his first loss of the season in 7 innings 8 hit 3 runs, 10 strike out.

Aiming for his fourth win of the season, Shoji started and started with a fastball over 150 km/h from the start, mixing in splitter and cutter to produce struck out. However, in the third inning, he gave up a go-ahead single to Reyes to left, and in the fourth, he gave up consecutive RBI hits to Narama and Mizuno. Opening pitcher was a first for the team if they had won 4 of their first 4 games, but they fell short of this with their first loss of the season. number 19 said, "It was a way to runs with regrets, so it's frustrating. I believe I'm expected to create the game and lead the team to win, so since we gave up two runs in the fourth inning, I really think it's my responsibility."

Although he was the lose pitcher, he recorded his first double-digit strike out. "I wasn't able to control cutter very well, so I was personally struggling quite a bit while pitching, but I was able to overpower them with my fastball when I needed to, so that was a new takeaway for me," he nodded.

As a key starting pitcher, he wants to get back on a winning streak in the upcoming games. "I've been working on the details, but I've been getting hit for throwing pitches that were left half-hearted, so I think if I had been more erratic in one direction or the other, the result wouldn't have been like this. Being able to pitch more cohesively is a good thing, but even within that, I want to be able to be bold when it matters," he said, looking ahead.