◆ Pacific League Rakuten Eagles Nippon-Ham (3rd, Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi)

Nippon-Ham was unable to overcome Rakuten Eagles 's starting pitcher Hayakawa, ending their five-game winning streak.

Starting pitcher Ito gave up a solo home run to McCusker, the leadoff batter in the second inning, allowing the opposing team to score the first run.

In the sixth inning, consecutive hits by Nakajima and Kurokawa created a scoring opportunity, and McCusker hit another RBI single to left field, allowing another run. Furthermore, a single by Murabayashi loaded the bases with one bases loaded, and Asamura hit sacrifice fly to right field, giving up a third run.

The batting lineup managed only two hit through six innings against Rakuten Eagles 's starting pitcher Hayakawa. However, in the seventh inning, Manami led off with Walk, and the following batter, Gunji, hit a ball that resulted in an error by the opposing team, creating a scoring opportunity with no outs and runners on first and second. But Kiyomiya Yuki flied out to right field, and pinch hitter Castro and Yamagata struck out consecutively. The game ended scoreless.

After giving up five runs in the eighth inning, they suffered a crushing 0-8 defeat.