◆Pacific League: Rakuten Eagles 3-6 Nippon-Ham (6th, Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi)

For the Rakuten Eagles, pitcher Ryota Takinaka struggled, giving up 6 runs on 9 hits in less than 6 innings, and the team suffered a three-game sweep in the series.

In the first inning, Tatsumi hit a two-run timely hit off Arihara to take an early lead, but Takinaka could not hold on. In the fourth inning, he allowed consecutive long single hits to the lead-off batter Nomura and the following batter Mizuno. With runners on second and third and no outs, one run was lost during Otsuka's ground ball to shortstop, and after Kiyomiya's infield hit to third base created a crisis with one out and runners on first and third, the game was tied by Shindo's squeeze.

In the sixth inning with the score tied 2-2, he gave up a three-run home run to Kiyomiya over center field with one out and runners on first and second. He was then knocked out of the game after giving up a solo home run to the next batter, Shindo, into right-center field.

In the 8th inning, trailing 2-6, the lineup attacked Miyanishi to create a two-out bases loaded opportunity. Pinch hitter Murabayashi then hit an infield hit to shortstop and head-slid into first base. He pulled back one run with that determined hit.

With a loss in the second game of the series on the 5th, the possibility of advancing to the Climax Series was completely extinguished. Even after a night had passed, the negative momentum could not be stopped. In Sendai, where the temperature had dropped, the hearts of the fans who had shouted themselves hoarse also grew cold.