On 1 March, the opening match between Tohoku Rakuten and Hiroshima at Kurashiki Muscat Stadium ended in a 1-1 draw.

Tohoku Rakuten loaded the bases with two outs in the first inning on a Walk by Hiroto Kobukata and scored on an RBI single by Hideto Asamura.

Starter Takahisa Hayakawa pitcher closer the first inning and then gave up runner in the top of the second and third innings to close out the pitch. He walked mound in the third inning after 2 hit no walks Hit by Pitch 2 strike out no runs on 50 pitches. In the Tomotaka Matsui pitcher that followed, 2 inning is combined into 2 hit no runs, and after that, Ryuta Konno pitcher and Shoma Fujihira pitcher each have 1 inning nothing. Connect with runs.

However, in the top of the eighth, Shota Watanabe pitcher moved up to mound in the fifth, and with runners on first and second with two outs on Walk and hit, Yuto Watanabe allowed the tying run. In the bottom of the eighth inning with the score tied at 1-1, Rui Muneyama and Yukiya Ito had a good chance with two outs and bases loaded on hit, but after a scoreless game, the game ended in a tie in the bottom of the ninth.

In the Tohoku Rakuten, Hayakawa pitcher, Tomotaka Matsui pitcher, and Ryuta Konno pitcher performed a no-runs relay until the sixth inning, and fourth-place Shoma Fujihira pitcher performed a spectacular pitch with three strike out no runs in the first inning. However, the bats were unable to create any good opportunities in front of the opposing pitcher after the first goal.

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Wide: Ryunosuke Sato - Tatsuya Matsumoto - Koya Takahashi - Shogo Tamamura - Shun Okamoto
Raku Takahisa Hayakawa-Tomotaka Matsui-Shoma Fujihira Ryuta Konno- Fujihira Naoma -Shota Watanabe-Masaya Nishigaki