◆ Pacific League Rakuten 2-5 Lotte (15th, Tokyo Dome)
No. 7 DH Hideto Asamura hit a single to left field with runners on first and second and two outs in the seventh inning. With one hit and one hit RBI two At Bat that day, he is now just two hits away from becoming the first player born in the Heisei era to reach 2,000 hit. With this, he has broken the tunnel of 35 consecutive hit at-bats against Nippon-Ham Fighters on the 9th, and in the six games up to this game, he has seven At Bat in 19 hit in total, giving him a batting average of .368, and is back on track.
Starting on the 16th, he will face Softbank in a three-game series on the road. "You get one hit, you get another. I want to do my best with each one," he said, as he continued to rack up hit as usual, and the moment he achieved his record approached.
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