On 4 April, the first round of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham and Orix matches in ES CON FIELD was win by Orix with a score of 4-3.

Orix scored three runs in the top of the third inning on back-to-back RBI singles by Ryo Ota, Ryoma Nishikawa and Yutaro Sugimoto with one out on back-to-back RBI singles by Koji Oshiro with one out and an error by hit. In the top of the seventh, Yuma Tongu hit a solo shot to No. 2.

Starting pitcher Hiroya Miyagi pitcher gave up solo shots to Reyes in the bottom of the fourth and Kengo Yoshida in the bottom of the sixth, but other than that, he didn't allow a runner to reach third base until the seventh inning. In the bottom of the eighth, with runners on first and second with no outs on hit and Walk, they scored one run on an RBI doble by Chusei Mannami, but they didn't allow the tying run to score as they were prevented from scoring home by their own good defense. He exited mound in the eighth inning on 108 pitches hit 7 Walk 1 strike out 9 runs 3.

​Machado pitcher closed out the game in the bottom of the ninth inning to end the game with a 4-3 lead. The team has won four games in a row and is now sole at the top of the standings. Miyagi pitcher had his first win of the season, while Nishikawa, Sugimoto and Tonmiya all scored 2 hit 1 RBI.

In Hokkaido Nippon-Ham the loss, starter Fukuya Yamazaki pitcher, making his first start of the season, allowed 89 pitches in six innings hit 8 3 Hit by Pitch strike out 3 runs (earned runs 2). The offense scored seven hit three runs, but it wasn't enough.

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O ○ Hiroya Miyagi- S Machado
Sun ●Yamazaki Fukuya -Koki Matsuoka-Toshihiro Sugiura-Takumi Yamamoto

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