On February 21, the open game between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Chiba Lotte Marines at Kinbucho Baseball Stadium ended in a 3-3 draw.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles starts Kosei Shoji pitcher. When the first inning was closer to a three-way retirement including 2 strike out, the 2nd and 3rd innings allowed hit but did not score. He went down mound with a good pitch of 45 pitches, 2 hit Hit by Pitch 4 strike out no runs.

In the bottom of the first inning, the batting lineup took the lead with a triple by Naoki Sato player in the lead, followed by a hit by player Daisuke Nakashima. In the bottom of the second inning, Hikaru Ota and Sato's hit made it 2 outs, 1st and 2nd base, and Nakajima's triple extended the lead to 3-0.

2nd runner Katsutoshi Tai pitcher lost 1 run in the top of the 4th inning with a Walk and a wild pitch between 1 out and 3rd base and a infield grounder, but in the top of the 5th, it ended with 3 runners, and 2 innings 27 pitches hit 1 Walk 1 strike out 1 runs. In the top of the 6th inning, Sora Suzuki pitcher connected with a three-way retirement, but in the top of the 7th, Ryuta Konno pitcher hit a inside-the-park home run by Hiromi Oka player and Kyota Fujiwara player No. 1 solo to score 2 runs. After the 8th inning, the game ended with Ren Kajiya pitcher and Masaya Nishigaki pitcher, and the game ended 3-3.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles has 2 At Bat 2 hit Sato, who joined in the active draft, and Nakajima 3 At Bat 2 hit 3 RBI. On the other hand, in Chiba Lotte Marines, starter Yuji Nishino pitcher had 2 innings of 38 pitches, 5 hit 1 Walk 2 strike out 3 runs. Yuto Kimura pitcher pitched 3 innings of 40 pitches, 1 hit 1 Walk 2 strike out no runs. In the batting lineup, Oka is the first player in the 12 teams in the open game, Fujiwara is 3 At Bat 2 hit including Home Run, and Eito Takabe is 4 At Bat 2 hit.

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Yuji Nishino-Yuto Kimura-Akira Yagi-Riku Kikuchi- Miyazaki Hayate -Koshiro Sakamoto
Kosei Shoji-Katsutoshi Tai-Sora Suzuki-Ryuta Konno Ren Kajiya-Masaya Nishigaki

Text by Mao Tsutsui