On April 8, the second game between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham was played at Rakuten Eagles Mobile's strongest park Miyagi, with Hokkaido Nippon-Ham win 1-0.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham started Koki Kitayama pitcher. With pitch that made use of breaking ball, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles batting line was shut down until the 4th inning with no hit and 6 strike out. In the bottom of the 5th, he allowed the first hit to Yuya Ogo players with one out, but closer the next hitter to infield grounders and struck out.

In the top of the 4th inning, Castro, the leadoff player, hit his first hit for the team with his second solo shot and succeeded in taking the lead. However, in front of Tohoku Rakuten Eagles starter Tatsuki Koja pitcher, he couldn't even get on base from the top of the 5th inning. The match will be a tense pitcher match.

Kitayama pitcher, who had been closer to 1 hit until the 7th inning, was in a pinch with 1 out and 1st and 3rd base in the bottom of the 8th inning. However, he escaped the pinch with a closer pinch infield Hikaru Ito player and a struck out swing Daisuke Nakashima player, and scored his first runs of the season with 102 pitches in 8 innings, 3 hit 1 Walk 10 strike out no win I got it. In the bottom of the ninth, Taisei Yanagawa pitcher closed the game and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham took the lead.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, who lost Tatsuki Koja pitcher, pitched 109 pitches in 9 innings, 1 hit 1 Walk 6 strike out 1 runs, but the batting line could not support it. In addition, the Watters player in his third year has recorded his first professional appearance.

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Day ○ Koki Kitayama-S Taisei Yanagawa
Raku ● Tatsuki Koja

Text by Seiichi Nakagawa