On May 3rd, in the second round of Farm regular season and Tohoku Rakuten Eagles vs. Saitama Seibu Lions held in Shinrindori Stadium Izumi, Saitama Seibu Lions won 9-2.

Saitama Seibu Lions started Masahiro Kawashimo pitcher. The first two inning allowed hit in both games, but they closed the key points runs. After that, he uses his sharp breaking ball as a weapon to record strike out each time up to six times. In the bottom of the 7th inning, with 1 out on 1st and 2nd base, he switched to Keita Horikoshi pitcher. They conceded one goal, but managed to get through with at least runs.

The batting line that wanted to respond to the good pitching made a chance in the top of the 5th inning with Haruma Fukuo players infield hit and 2 Hit by Pitch from 2nd place Kosei Koga pitcher, 2 outs and bases loaded. Sowa Yokota The player's two-point timely doble succeeds in taking the lead. Still, in a good opportunity with 2 outs, 2nd and 3rd base, Taiyo Sato player also followed with a 2-run timely hit and scored a total of 4 runs in this inning.

The batting line added one run in the top of the 8th inning due to an enemy error, and Yuta Nakazo hit a timely doble of sweep from bases loaded with one out. After that, wild pitches were also involved, and the score was 9 to 1. In the bottom of the eighth, Bo Takahashi pitcher scored no runs, and in the bottom of the ninth, Daiki Miura pitcher was hit by a solo shot by Toshiya Osakae, but the lead was defended.

Saitama Seibu Lions, who has won three consecutive victories, is the 5th win of the season with starter pitcher Kawashita 6.1 innings and 97 pitches, 6 hit 2 Walk 7 strike out 1 runs. In the batting lineup, Nakazo scored 2 hit 3 RBI and Tai Sato scored 2 hit 2 RBI, scoring a total of 11 hit 9 runs.

On the other hand, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, who lost, started Sota Fujiwara pitcher 4 innings of 70 pitches, 2 hit 4 Walk runs. In the batting lineup, the first rookie in the development player Daita Horomura recorded the first RBI of regular season, and the fourth place in the draft, Daiei, recorded the first Home Run of the regular season, but suffered a heavy defeat due to a mistake at the end of the game.

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Nishi: Masahiro Kawashimo-Keita Horikoshi-Bo Takahashi-Daiki Miura
Sota Fujiwara- ● Kosei Koga-Masahiro Ehara-Ryu Kutani-Katsutoshi Tai

Written by Ao Yokoyama

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