Pacific League: Lotte 6-5 Softbank Hawks (10 extra innings) - (26th, ZOZO Marine)

Softbank Hawks scored five runs in two consecutive games in the first inning, showing an easy winning mood, but couldn't add more runs from the second inning onward. In the ninth, closer Sugiyama failed to hold the two-run lead, and extra inning in the tenth, Go Suzuki hit a walk-off homer to Yamaguchi. "If we had five runs in the first inning, we wouldn't have won. If we had come home with one out bases loaded and no pitches at all, this would have happened," said manager Kokubo, noting the passive batting of Takashi Hirose, who fell to the struck out with one out and bases loaded in the eighth.

Sugiyama injured his right foot during pre-game practice on the 22nd and took the mound with the affected area taped. "There is absolutely no way it has no impact. I will check with the pitcher coach to see if he can perform in his current condition," the manager said.

The magic number for the championship became 22 because the second-place Seibu Lions lost.