◆ Pacific League Seibu Lions 0-3 Softbank Hawks (26th, Belluna Dome)

Second-placed Seibu Lions lost the third game of their direct confrontation with first-placed Softbank Hawks, ending the first half of the season with a losing record. The gap between them and Softbank Hawks has widened again to 5.5 games.

Starting pitcher Kosei Takahashi suffered his fifth loss of the season. Despite being a "Hawks killer" with four wins in four starts this season, he was unable to secure a victory in their first matchup since the interleague games.

No hit pitch until the fourth inning. However, with neither team scoring in the fifth inning, with one out and a series of hits and Walk, making it bases loaded with one out, Masaki's shallow fly ball was sacrifice fly to left, giving up the lead. With two outs and runners on second and third, Shuto hit a stretching fly ball right fielder Canario couldn't catch, and the ball was triple. Hikaru Takahashi instinctively put his hands on both knees and staggered in disappointment. Bad luck piled up, and in this inning, they gave up three runs in one go. However, after that, they failed to score and took the mound out of the in the 8th inning, 4 hit 3 runs.

The batting lineup managed to get hits to hit batters in the 2nd, 4th, and 5th innings, but they were unable to break through against opposing starting pitcher Yu Maeda. They allowed Maeda to achieve his eighth consecutive win of the season.