◆ Pacific League Nippon-Ham 2-6 Softbank Hawks (16th, ES CON FIELD)

Softbank Hawks showed great resilience, overcoming two deficits to win the series. This brings their record against Nippon-Ham this season to 12 wins and 2 losses, giving them a remarkable 10 wins above .500 in this series alone.

Kamichatani made his first start since joining the team from DeNA in the 2024 offseason draft. He recorded two strike out in the first inning and held the opponent runs through three innings. In the fourth inning, with one out and a runner on third, he gave up an RBI single to Gunji and a solo home run to Narama in the fifth inning, but he held on to just two runs.

Then, in the 7th inning with the score tied 2-2 and no outs, runners on second and third base, Makihara Dai hit a two-run doble to left-center field, followed by Kurihara's 27th home run, a two-run shot, giving them a four-run lead. They knocked out the opposing ace, Ito, after he gave up five runs. From the 7th inning onwards, Osuna, Matsumoto Yu, and Sugiyama took over, and the win fell to Kamichatani.

Kamichatani secured his first starting pitcher win since September 9, 2022, against Hanshin Tigers (Yokohama), when he was with DeNA.