◆ Pacific League League: extra inning 4-3 Nippon-Ham (10 innings) (21st, ZOZO Marine Stadium)

Nippon-Ham suffered a walk-off loss to Lotte, reducing their savings to 12. In the 8th inning with the score tied 3-2, Kanemura was tied. Although they managed to overcome the crisis of bases loaded with no outs in the 9th, in the 10th inning with 3-3, the fifth pitcher, Tora Kiyomiya, gave up a walk-off doble to Yamaguchi. In inning Betsu, the 8th inning was the most with 69 runs, indicating that the reliever lineup was still lacking.

Starting pitcher Kitayama threw 111 pitches over 7 innings, giving up only 2 hit 2 runs, but he was unable to secure his first career 10th win. Nevertheless, he reached the required innings pitched, and his 2.22 ERA puts him at the top of the league.

The offense took the lead in the first inning on a run-scoring single to right field by Reyes, then added two more runs in the third inning when Reyes hit another run-scoring single to right-center field doble and Arizono hit a single to left field sacrifice fly.On this day, Manami—who had recorded 20 Home Run, second-most on the team—was removed from the roster due to lower-body discomfort. With injuries mounting—including speedy Iihata being left off the bench due to the effects of being hit by a pitch during the 19th’s Softbank Hawks game (at Escon)—this marked a devastating lose for fifth-place Lotte.