On May 14, the 11th round match between Hokkaido Nippon-Ham and Orix took place in ES CON FIELD, with Orix winning 9-5 and win.

Orix scored the first run in the first inning on Walk and Ryoma Nishikawa hit by Taishi Hirooka and a runner on first and third base with no outs, and then scored on a grounder by Kotaro Kobayashi. With one out and runners on first and third on Ryo Ota 's hit, Keita Nakagawa 's sacrifice fly added one more run.

​Hiroya Miyagi pitcher, the starter, had a runner inning but did not give up a run in a key spot pitch. However, in the bottom of the fifth, with runners on first and second with no outs, he gave up one run on an RBI single with one out. He added a two-out bases loaded on a Walk and a two-run RBI single to start the game.

In the bottom of the seventh, Seiryu Kotajima pitcher, the second baseman, hit a two-run shot off Reyes in the eighth. In the top of the eighth inning, Ryo Ota, Keita Nakagawa and Diaz loaded the bases with Walk and scored on Walk groundouts. With two outs and bases loaded still on the line, Taishi Hirooka hit a No. 3 bases loaded to complete the comeback.

In the bottom of the eighth, Perdomo pitcher tied the game with no runs, and in the top of the ninth, Yuma Tongu hit a solo shot to make the score 9-5. In the bottom of the ninth, Machado pitcher closed out the game with a triple. The win Orix that started pitcher Miyagi threw 118 pitches in six innings hit allowed Walk to strike out 7 3 runs. Hirooka went 2-4 RBI with a 2-hit, including his first professional bases loaded to snap a two-game losing streak.

In Hokkaido Nippon-Ham the loss, starter Koki Kitayama pitcher runs hit 7 Walk 2 strike out 3 on 87 pitches in five innings. Reyes' two-run single in the eighth put them in the lead at one point, but the reliever couldn't hold on.

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Omiyagi Hiroya Miyagi- ○ Seiryu Kotajima- Perdomo - Machado
Koki Kitayama-Taisho Tamai-Takahide Ikeda-Ryusei Kawano-Koji Fukutani-Yukiya Saito-Taisei Yanagawa

Text by Haruka Sonoda

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