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

Rakuten Eagles 's Nippon-Ham suffered a come-from-behind loss, ending their two-game winning streak.

They took control of the game early on. In the first inning, with one bases loaded, Murabayashi hit sacrifice fly to center field to score the first run. In the second inning, they added more runs with sacrifice fly by Kurokawa and an RBI single to right field by Tatsumi.

However, starting pitcher Contreras, making his first appearance after joining, couldn't hold up. In the third inning, with no outs and a runner on third, he gave up a go-ahead single to right field to Hosokawa, runs. Then, in the fourth inning, Nomura hit a game-tying two-run homer, and immediately after, Sachi Kiyomiya hit a go-ahead solo homer. He was pulled in the fourth inning with four runs. Regarding the foreign aid caught in the second round and beyond, Manager Yoshii said, "He threw a good pitch. It was his first appearance. I couldn't quite tell what kind of pitches he was throwing from the side, so I'll watch the footage later."

Soyama returned to the team for the game on the 3rd. Soyama played shortstop and Murabayashi played second base. The manager said, "With him (Soyama) at short stop and Murabayashi at second baseman, I got the impression that the team played with more stability. We made a lot of double plays, so I think it went well."