On 23 March, Tohoku Rakuten win won 1-0 in the second round match between Tohoku Rakuten and Yokohama DeNA in Eastern League regular season Shinrindori Stadium Izumi.

Tohoku Rakuten started Takuma Matsuda pitcher. After closer the first round of three-way ties, he survived the rest of the inning with no runs despite being hit by inning hit. He was removed in the top of the sixth inning with two outs and hit Daichi Shibata pitcher allowed Walk but no runs.

In the top of the seventh, Haruto Sakai pitcher retired three batters, and in the top of the eighth, Taisei Tsuruzaki pitcher connected with three consecutive struck out. The Yankees were held hit until the seventh inning, when Tsubasa Yoshino led off the inning with a solo shot by No. 1. Katsutoshi Tai pitcher entered the game in the top of the ninth and loaded the bases with two outs in the bases loaded Walk of the third inning, but closed out the inning with no runs. Starting pitcher pitcher Matsuda threw 74 pitches in 5.2 innings, allowing 5 hit no walks Hit by Pitch 2 strike out runs. Rookie Yoshino, the No. 5 pick in the draft, won a close game with one run on his first Home Run regular season.

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Kenta Kozono - Ruto Konno - Shunsuke Kasatani - Hayato Horioka
Raku Takuma Matsuda-Daichi Shibata-Haruto Sakai- ○ Tsurusaki Taisei - S Katsutoshi Tai

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