● Seibu 2 - 3 Nippon-Ham ○
<Second Round, Belluna Dome >

Although Seibu showed tenacity by tying the score at one point, they lost a close game that went into extra extra inning and suffered their second consecutive loss since the start of the season. The first win under Nishiguchi's new management will have to wait until the next game.

Watanabe, who was entrusted with starting the second game of the season, was in a pinch with a runner on third base and no outs in the first inning due to doble and a wild pitch by himself, and gave up the first run on a grounder by No. 2 hitter Kiyomiya Yuki. In the fourth inning, with one out, he gave up three consecutive hits and lost the second run. However, from the fifth inning onwards, he continued to pitch well, throwing 95 pitches in seven innings, giving up five hit two runs. He played his role as a starter.

The batting line was scoreless until the 5th inning against Nippon-Ham starter Taka Kato. In the 6th inning, trailing by 2 points, the opponent's error created a good opportunity with runners on first and third with one out, and with two outs, No. 6 Sotozaki hit a timely single to center field to score the first run of the season.

In the 8th inning, trailing by one point, No. 4 Nakamura hit a single to right field, putting runners on first and third with one out, and No. 5 Watanabe Satoshi (Osaka University of Commerce), who was drafted second, hit a single to left field to tie the game. This was Watanabe Satoshi's first RBI as a professional.

The game went into extra inning innings with the score tied at 2-2. Coach Nishiguchi sent new foreign player Wingenter to mound in the top of the 10th extra inning inning, but the right-handed pitcher allowed an unlucky doble to No. 5 Gunji with two outs, and then allowed consecutive hits by Yazawa and Kamikawabata, giving up his first runs since coming to Japan. This was the deciding point, and Wingenter suffered his first loss since transferring to the team.