◆ Pacific League Nippon-Ham 9-10 Orix Buffaloes (August 2nd, ES CON FIELD)

Nippon-Ham suffered a shocking come-from-behind loss, delaying their 5,000th victory in their 81st year since the team's founding.

After the game, Shinjo first recalled the scene in the 8th inning when Nakagawa hit a reverse triple over the right field wall with two outs bases loaded in the 8th inning. He said, "I thought I was going to hit a perfect shot infield at Ota (No. 4), Nakagawa (No. 5), and Tamai (No. 6). I had an image of them hitting out with that kind of golfer. I thought Tamai-kun and Tamiya-kun (of catcher) had a perfect image of how to get the ball out of the bag yesterday, and that's why I transferred the ball to Tamai-kun. So, a straight outside pitch? I was naive for believing in it. If it was an outside straight line, I would have been fine with Tanaka. I was naive. I was. （I let him pitch thinking he would go for the inside pitch. I have nothing but regrets. I had faith in him, and all I could think of was that he would break the bat, so I have my doubts about the outside straightaway," he regretted with a mysterious look on his face.