Pacific League: Seibu Lions 1-0 Rakuten Eagles (29th, Belluna Dome)

Rakuten Eagles pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa (28) threw 109 pitches over 8 innings, allowing 3 hit and no Walk, but suffered his 6th loss after giving up 1 runs.

In the first inning, he gave up a go-ahead home run to the leadoff change-up Canario, on the second pitch, a changeup, sending the ball to the right of the center field scoreboard. He then gave up hit to Kojima, but then recovered completely, retiring 23 consecutive batters from Hasegawa until two outs in the eighth inning. With no offensive support from his offense against Seibu Lions 's Sumida, it was a painful runs.

This season, he has pitched 30 innings across four games against the Seibu Lions, maintaining an ERA of 0.90 but without a single win. On the 22nd, he also pitched well, giving up five hits and no runs over seven innings, yet he still couldn't beat Sumida. After today's game, he reflected calmly, saying, 'My impression is that Canario, who got the hit, was the better player. He (Sumida) also threw eight scoreless innings last week (the 22nd), so if you give up even one run, you lose. Once that one run was scored, it felt like they had a significant advantage. From then on, I focused on pitching to keep the runs to a minimum.'