On 23 March, the opening match between The Giants and Chiba Lotte in Tokyo Dome was win 2-1 for Chiba Lotte. They have finished their opening season with 8 wins, 7 losses and 2 draws.

In the first inning, Chiba Lotte put runners on first and third with no outs on back-to-back singles by Eito Takabe and Misho Nishikawa, and Yudai Fujioka took the lead with an RBI single. In the top of the fifth, with the score tied, back-to-back singles by Nishikawa and Fujioka put runners on first and third with one out, and the Yankees were able to score the winning run on a wild pitch by pitcher.

​Atsuki Taneichi pitcher started the game with a hit in the first inning, but struck out the next two batters in a row to struck out the second straight Toshiya Sato There was also a stolen base kill of a player, and there was no runs to start. In the bottom of the second inning, with runners on first and third with no outs, the game was tied at sacrifice fly, but after that, he didn't give up the lead with a pitch on his back every time he had a runner on his back. He walked mound in 5 innings on 77 pitches, 6 hit 1 Walk 5 strike out 1 runs.

​Naoya Masuda pitcher in the bottom of the sixth, Guerrero pitcher in the seventh and Shota Suzuki pitcher in the bottom of the eighth each threw 1 inning to closer runs. In the bottom of the ninth inning with a one-run lead, Atsuya Hirohata pitcher pinch-hit with two outs and the bases loaded, but the struck out was thrown out to end the game. Fujioka had a 3 hit 1 RBI and No. 1 draft rookie Nishikawa had a 3 hit batting average.

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○ Atsuki Taneichi-Naoya Masuda-Guerrero-Shota Suzuki-Atsuya Hirohata
Giants: Tatsuya Ishikawa, Eito Tanaka, Keisuke Izumi, Keller, and many others

Text by Aoi Yokoyama

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