On August 9, the 15th round of the Farm regular season Hokkaido Nippon-Ham vs. Tohoku Rakuten Eagles at The Fighters Kamagaya Stadium ended in a 4-4 draw.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham 's starter, Tamon Asari pitcher, gave up consecutive hits with one out in the top of the first inning, and Shion Otsubo gave up the lead with his sixth homer and three-run homer. Then, in the bottom of the first inning, Kaito Fujimori reached base at doble, and Ruan Ohtsuka hit his third two-run homer to narrow the lead to one run.

pitcher Asari gave up runner in the second and third innings but did not runs. In the top of the fourth, he gave up one run between runners on first and third with no outs and a grounder to infield, but in the top of the fifth, he did not allow any more runs, and after throwing 86 pitches with 6 hit 3 walks Hit by Pitch 2 strike out 4 runs in the fifth inning, he retired the mound.

In the top of the sixth, Suguru Fukuda pitcher was out, and in the top of the seventh, Taisho Tamai pitcher hit pitch. In the top of the eighth, Nao Miyanishi pitcher came in and was pulled after a two-out, runner-on-first crisis, but Kotaro Seimiya pitcher turned the ball away. In the bottom of the eighth, trailing by two runs, the lineup hit a series of hits by Fujimori and Daiki Asama, putting runners on second and third with no outs, and scored a run between infield grounders. With one out and a runner on second, Otsuka hit a timely single to tie the game.

In the top of the ninth, Takahide Ikeda pitcher retired all three batters. In the bottom of the ninth, with the score tied, Uta Sakaguchi and Shun Mizutani hit each had one out, runners on first and third, but no more hits were scored, and the game ended. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Otsuka recorded 3 hit 3 RBI including Home Run, while Fujimori and Sakaguchi recorded 2 hit. Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 's starter, Seiya Ouchi pitcher, threw 2 runs in the first inning but showed stable pitch thereafter, pitching 7 innings with 103 pitches, 6 hit 2 Walk, 10 strike out 2 runs outings. The batting lineup features Po Hsiang Yang players hitting 2 hit.

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Raku Seiya Ouchi-Ryuta Konno-Chiharu Tanaka
Tamon Asari-Suguru Fukuda-Taisho Tamai-Nao Miyanishi-Kotaro Seimiya-Takahide Ikeda

Text by Mao Tsutsui

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