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

Softbank Hawks managed only three runs, including three solo home runs, and suffered their third consecutive loss.

Trailing by six runs in the seventh inning, with one out Yuki Yanagita, batting fifth for the first time this season, hit a solo home run to right field. His first home run since the April 16th game against Rakuten Eagles (Kitakyushu), he commented, "I was able to really get into the ball. I want to use this as a springboard and go for the win." Creating a comeback atmosphere, Tomoya Masaki who was registered as a player for the day and immediately starting line-up as the sixth defense and right fielder, also hit a solo home run to left field. Despite dropping a fly ball to right field in the second inning, he said, "This situation arose because of my defense mistake, but I was determined to do what I could at the plate," and he delivered results.

Two consecutive home runs created a comeback atmosphere, and in the ninth inning, Ryoya Kurihara hit his 11th solo home run to right field, but that was as far as they could go.