On August 2, the 17th round match between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Fukuoka Softbank held at Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi ended 10-6 with Fukuoka Softbank win.

Fukuoka Softbank chased one run in the top of the fourth, and with Kensuke Kondo and hit and Walk, the score was tied with one out and runners on first and second, and an error by the enemy tied the game. With one out and runners on first and third, Yudai Yamamoto took the lead between Nigoro and Yudai Yamamoto. Players Taisei Makihara and Kenta Imamiya also connected with consecutive timely hits, making the score 4-1.

In the top of the sixth, with the lead narrow to one run, Akira Kawase hit a timely two-run doble, followed by three consecutive bases-loaded Walk to score six runs in one go. Starting Walk hit Yugo Maeda pitcher gave up 99 pitches over 6 innings, including 2 Home Run and 5 runs, and gave up win pitcher rights through heavy support.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, with the score tied 10-5, the second pitcher Yuki Tsumori pitcher gave up a timely hit to Ryosuke Tatsumi player with runners on first and second with one out, giving up a runs. Even so, from the eighth inning onward, Fukuoka Softbank secured two consecutive wins in the second half of the season with a rock-solid relay of Yuki Matsumoto pitcher and Kazuki Sugiyama pitcher. Yu Maeda pitcher is now undefeated, maintaining his ninth straight win. The lineup featured Yu Yamamoto with 2 hit 2 RBI, and Dai Makihara with 2 hit 1 RBI, including an RBI hit.

Meanwhile, the defeated Tohoku Rakuten Eagles had starting pitcher Tatsuki Koja pitcher throw 93 pitches in 5.0 innings, 6 hit 4 Walk 6 strike out 6 runs (earned runs 2). The lineup recorded a total of 11 hit and 6 runs, including 2 hit and 2 RBI including Home Run by Ryuya Taira players for the first time in two months, but the runs was a heavy , marking their ninth consecutive loss on Sunday.

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So 000406000 10
Raku 001202100 6

So ○ Yugo Maeda-Yuki Tsumori-Yuki Matsumoto-Kazuki Sugiyama
Raku ● Tatsuki Koja-Daichi Shibata Haruto Nakagomi- Contreras -Ren Kajiya

Written by Ao Yokoyama