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

Softbank Hawks seized the momentum by scoring three runs in the fifth inning, and ended the first half of the season with a victory.

Yugo Maeda It turned into a pitching duel with Hikaru Takahashi of the Seibu Lions, against whom the team had suffered four straight losses this season. Both pitcher allowed runner but did not let any runners score pitch. The game turned in the fifth inning.

With one out, Yamamoto Megumi hit a single to right field for the team's first hit. Then, with bases loaded loaded and one out, Masaki hit sacrifice fly to left field to score the first run. With two outs and runners on second and third, Shuto hit a two-run triple to right field to add to the lead. They scored three runs with a concentrated attack on the good pitcher.

Yu Maeda pitched six runs innings, and the winning pattern of relief pitchers Osuna, Yu Matsumoto, and Sugiyama secured the series win. The gap between them and second-place Seibu Lions widened to 5.5 games as the first half of the season ended. Maeda has surpassed Masahiro Tanaka in 2009 and Shohei Ohtani in 2015, becoming the first player since Horiuchi of The Giants in 1967 to start the season with eight consecutive wins within three years of graduating from high school.