On 16 April, the fifth round match between Eastern League regular season and Chiba Lotte and Tohoku Rakuten was played in Lotte Urawa Baseball Stadium, and Tohoku Rakuten win 2-1.

Tohoku Rakuten starter Yan-Cheng Wang pitcher was hit by Koki Yamaguchi in the bottom of the second inning Yu Tatematsu We conceded one goal due to back-to-back hits by our players, but we didn't allow any other runs. Starting in the fourth inning, he pitched well, closer three consecutive inning and retired three batters, and gave up mound in the sixth inning on 69 pitches Walk 4 hit 1 5 runs strike out 1.

With two outs in the top of the third inning, the Yankees scored one run on back-to-back RBI triples by Konosuke Tatsumi, Haruka Yamada and Soshi Yoshino. In the top of the fourth, back-to-back singles by Takero Okajima and Kazuki Tanaka put runners on first and third with no outs, and Tsuyoshi Ishihara 's batted ball induced an error to put the game out of reach.

The relievers are Turley pitcher, Shota Watanabe pitcher and Katsutoshi Tai pitcher tied the game 2-1 with no inning hit no runs each. The team stopped the losing streak at "4". Okajima scored 3 hit and Yoshi fielder’s choice scored 2 hit.

In Chiba Lotte the loss, starter Tokito Kawamura pitcher runs 7 hit 1 Walk 3 strike out 2 on 64 pitches in four innings. The relievers combined for 5 inning with 1 hit 1 Hit by Pitch no runs, but the offense couldn't provide any relief with 4 hit 1 run. The winning streak stopped at "8".

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○ Yan-Cheng Wang- Tarli -Shota Watanabe-Katsutoshi Tai
● Tokito Kawamura-Akira Yagi-Daiki Iwashita-Shuta Takano-Yuki Kuniyoshi

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