◆ Pacific League: Rakuten Eagles vs. Softbank Hawks (15th, Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi)

Softbank Hawks pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa gave up four runs in the second inning.

In the second inning with neither team scoring, it seemed he had hit the leadoff hitter Yoshi Watanabe to fly out to right, but right fielder Masaki dropped it. He reached base and was in trouble with a runner on second with no outs. Then, with one out and runners on first and third, Murabayashi gave up a timely single to center to score the opening run. With two outs and runners on first and second, Sato delivered a three-run homer, making it runs four. He then gave up Walk to Kurokawa and allowed Tatsumi to hit a single to center, allowing nine attackers to attack hitter and trailing by four runs from the start.