◆Nippon Life Interleague Series 2026: Lotte vs. Chunichi (June 10th, ZOZO Marine Stadium)

Lotte's second-round draft pick, pitcher Kaito Mori (22) from Meiji University, started the game but was knocked out after pitching a career-worst three innings, giving up nine hit and ten runs. He was unable ERA his third win, which would have been his first since the game against Seibu on May 3rd (at ZOZO Seibu Lions Stadium), and his ERA worsened to 5.25. After being taken out of the game, he apologized, saying, "I'm sorry that things started like this."

In the first inning, Walk leadoff batter Okabayashi. They then allowed a timely doble the left field line to Ukai, giving up the first run. After a walk to Abe and Walk, with two outs and runners on first and second, Hosokawa hit a two-run doble. With two outs and a runner still on second, they gave up a two-run homer to Ishikawa, his fourth of the season, conceding five runs in the inning.

In the second inning, Sano hit a single to center field sacrifice fly, scoring a run runs. In the third inning, Takashi Ishikawa hit a single to left field hit, putting runners on first and second with one out bases loaded, and then Ukai hit his fifth home run of the season bases loaded.He did not make it through the fourth inning mound and was replaced by the second pitcher, Yagi. Chunichi He had been looking forward to a pitching duel with Sakurai (Tohoku Fukushi University), his teammate on the University Japan team and a second-round draft pick, but ended up being pulled from the game first.

The 10-runs game ties the team's worst rookie record. Rookie Mouri (Ro) pitched 9 hit 10 runs in 3 innings against Chunichi on the 10th. The team's 10 runs rookies tie for the worst record, following Jun Aramaki on April 28, 1968 against Nankai, Yoshiro Tanaka on October Nippon-Ham 7, 1976, and Naoyuki Shimizu on August 1 Nippon-Ham 5, 2000.