On April 12, Saitama Seibu and Chiba Lotte 5th round match Eastern League regular season against Saitama in CAR3219 Field were win 5-1 by Chiba Lotte, extending their winning streak to 7.

Starting pitcher Yuki Karakawa pitcher retired six batters, including four strike out in the first two innings, and closer 1 hit through five innings. The offense opened the scoring in the top of the sixth inning on Acevedo's No. 3 solo homer. Karakawa pitcher gave up one run on three consecutive hits in the bottom of the sixth, but was removed after 4 hit and Hit by Pitch 7 strike out 1 runs in six innings on 70 pitches.

With the score tied in the top of the seventh, Aito, Naonori Yasuda, Yu Tatematsu, and Yuta Kaneda scored two runs in a row with four consecutive doble with one out. They added two more runs in the top of the eighth on an RBI doble by Aito.

After the seventh inning, the relievers were Atsuya Hirohata pitcher, Takahiro Nishimura pitcher and Seiun Akiyama The pitcher tied the game with no runs for 1 inning each, and the game ended. Chiba Lotte gathered hit late in the game to win 5-1. Aito has 3 hit 2 RBI, while Shingo Ishikawa, Acevedo and Naonori Yasuda have 2 hit.

On the other hand, Saitama Seibu lost the game, and starter Haruki Sugiyama pitcher pitched well in 5 innings, allowing 3 hit runs out. The offense came up with an RBI single by Junichiro Kishi in the bottom of the sixth, but it lasted only two hit except for the sixth.

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○ Yuki Karakawa-Atsuya Hirohata-Takahiro Nishimura-Seiun Akiyama
Haruki Haruki Sugiyama-Taisei Miyazawa- ● Lopez -Yoshinobu Mizukami-Taishi Mameda

Text by Minami Niwa

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