◆ Pacific League Rakuten Eagles Lotte (20th, Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi)

Lotte held on for the win, ending their three-game losing streak and preventing a three-game sweep against the same opponent.

Rakuten Eagles In the first inning, the batting lineup took an early 1-0 lead off starting pitcher Ken Maeda when Teraji hit a ground ball to second base double play. In the second inning, Munayama committed an error on a ground ball hit by Yamazaki, allowing the team to score its second run. In the seventh inning, Sato hit a two-run home run doble off Sho Suzuki, bringing the team’s total to four runs.

Kojima, who started the game, runner in hit and Walk but showed pitch of tenacity. In the sixth inning, he gave up a right-field sacrifice fly to pinch hitter Sato and was taken out at the end of the inning, but he inning 6 hit and runs 1. He defeated Ken Maeda of Rakuten Eagles, earning his fifth win since the Seibu Lions game on the 4th.