◆ Pacific League Seibu Lions 2-1 Lotte (14th, Belluna Dome)

Lotte lost the first game of their series against Seibu Lions, suffering their fifth three-game losing streak of the season. They are now one game below .500 for the first time since June 13th.

Although the batting lineup recorded 9 hit—more than the Seibu Lions—they were unable to score as starter Taira and others from Seibu Lions shut them down at key moments.Trailing by two runs in the ninth inning, they created a scoring opportunity with no outs and a runner on third base bases loaded after three consecutive hits Walk off reliever Kaiono, but managed to score only one run on Fujiwara’s groundout to first base double play. With two outs and a runner on third, Nishikawa ended the inning with a strikeout struck out.

After the game, manager Saburo lamented, "Nine hit but zero runs is a disappointing performance from our batting lineup. If we had just one hitter who could break through early on, the game might have unfolded differently. We were getting hit, but no extra-base hits. We weren't scoring runs. It's the usual pattern, or rather, it's a bad pattern, like last year."