On 4 April, Tohoku Rakuten win won 5-2 in the third round match between Tohoku Rakuten and Tokyo Yakult in Eastern League regular season Shinrindori Stadium Izumi.

In the bottom of the second inning, Haruka Yamada loaded the bases with two outs and doble, followed by back-to-back RBI singles by Kengo Horiuchi, Takumi Aono and Po Hsiang Yang to score three runs. In the bottom of the third, Daisuke Nakashima hit a solo shot to extend the lead to four runs.

​Kosei Shoji pitcher started the game with a closer perfect first three innings, but in the top of the fifth, a teammate's error put runner on the back and gave up two runs to Ren Sawai to make it 4-2. He added back-to-back singles, but after six innings, he gave up no runs after allowing 5 hit no walks Hit by Pitch 6 strike out 2 runs (earned runs 1) on 91 pitches.

In the bottom of the sixth, Takero Okajima 's RBI single made it 5-2, and after the seventh, the game went to the plate. Yan-Cheng Wang pitcher and Shota Watanabe pitcher tied the game at 3 in 1 inning each, and Katsutoshi Tai pitcher closed out the game in the top of the ninth. In the batting lineup, Kohiro Komori, Nakajima, and Horiuchi all recorded 2 hit.

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Ya ● Junsuke Shimokawa - Shohei Numata - Hiroki Onishi
○ Kosei Shoji-Yan-Cheng Wang-Shota Watanabe- S Katsutoshi Tai

Text by Minami Niwa

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