◆ Pacific League Rakuten Eagles 8X-7 Seibu Lions (22nd, Tokyo Dome) =12 extra inning =

Seibu Lions This was their third loss of the season to the walk-off. They fell short of reaching a 20-game winning streak for the first time since 2018. The gap between them and the second-place Softbank Hawks, who did not play today, narrowed to three games.

In the 7th inning, with a 4-1 lead, the relief pitchers faltered, giving up 4 runs and losing the lead. However, in the bottom of the 8th inning, Hasegawa hit a go-ahead two-run homer to left field. But in the 9th inning, pitcher Hiroshi Kaino couldn't hold the lead, and the game went into extra inning innings.

In the 11th inning, with no outs and runners on first and second base, they had a chance to take the lead again, and they scored another run on an opponent's error. However, in the bottom of the inning, the eighth pitcher, Hakua Iwaki, gave up a solo home run to Asamura to tie the game. In the 12th inning, the ninth pitcher, Taiga Ueda, got into trouble with two outs and no runners on base after runner Walk and stolen base a base, and in the end he gave up a walk-off hit to Kurokawa.

After losing the long game that lasted 4 hours and 38 minutes, manager Fumiya Nishiguchi commented, "The way runs... It wasn't just getting hit, but runs scored from Walk. I think we could have prevented that. In baseball, you never know what's going to happen until the very end." He cited allowing runner to score Walk walks in the 7th inning when they were overtaken, the 9th inning when they failed to hold on for the win, and the final 12th inning as one of the reasons for the loss.