◆ Pacific League Rakuten Eagles Nippon-Ham (May 5th, Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi)

Nippon-Ham came from behind to win Rakuten Eagles with their signature home run barrage, ending their two-game losing streak. Their lead in the standings is now 11 games. Their team Home Run has increased to 106, the most in both leagues.

Starter Fukushima gave up three runs by the second inning, threw 45 pitches in the second inning, and was unexpectedly taken out after 4 hit, 3 walks, Hit by Pitch 3 runs. However, the offense was trailing by three runs with no outs and a runner on third in the third. Hosokawa hit a timely single to right to get one run back, then in the fourth inning with one out and a runner on second, Nomura's 10th two-run homer, and Sachi Kiyomiya's solo home run of the ninth and two consecutive Home Run hits, successfully took the lead. In the sixth inning, Shindo hit his third solo homer. In the seventh inning, Mannami hit a sacrifice fly to pull away.

After Fukushima left the mound, Uehara, Tatsu, Shimamoto, and Yanagawa pitched in relief, and Tanaka closed out the 9th inning.