On August 11, in the 23rd game of the Farm regular season between Fukuoka Softbank and Hiroshima held at Tama Home Stadium Chikugo, Fukuoka Softbank win 10-5.

Fukuoka Softbank started Jun Maeda pitcher and gave up the lead in the top of the first inning with one out and a runner on third, sacrifice fly. In the top of the second, Ramirez and Shosei Nakamura hit consecutive Home Run, making the score 0-4.

In the bottom of the second, with two Walk and two outs, runners on first and second, Yoshiyasu Sasakawa hit his fifth three-run homer to close the gap to one run. In the top of the third, Jun Maeda pitcher gave up another run on two doble, but in the bottom of the third, Yuto Akihiro 's ninth two-homer tied the game at 5-5. Then, in the bottom of the fifth, Downs' first solo homer put them in the go-ahead lead. Then, in the bottom of the eighth, Tsuneki Nakazawa hit a timely hit and Yutaro Fujita hit a two-run doble with five consecutive hits, adding four more runs to reach double digits.

Fukuoka Softbank secured their second straight win, with Sasakawa performing well with 3 hit and 3 RBI including Home Run, scoring 10 points in 11 hit and 10 points. Starter Jun Maeda pitcher pitched 124 pitches over 7 innings, 10 hit 1 Walk 6 strike out 5 runs.

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Hiro 131000000 5
SO 03201004X 10

Hiro ● Sato Ryunosuke - Saito Tainao - Tsunehiro Hayato
So ○ Jun Maeda-Taisei Kimura-Yuta Aihara

Written by Riyoko Niwa

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