On 6 April, the third round match between Chiba Lotte and Tohoku Rakuten was played in Zozo Marine Stadium, where Tohoku Rakuten win 5-0.

In the first inning, Tohoku Rakuten had a chance to put runners on first and third with one out on Walk by Hiroto Kobukata and Ryosuke Tatsumi, and scored on an RBI single by Toshiki Abe. In the top of the third inning, Abe hit a sacrifice fly with runners on first and third with no outs, and in the top of the fourth, back-to-back singles by Atsuki Muto and Rui Muneyama scored one run to make the score 3-0. In the top of the sixth, Muto and Soyama hit back-to-back singles to put runners on first and third with one out, and added one more run on a safety squeeze by Ofukada.

Starting pitcher Tatsuki Koja pitcher, who was supported from the start, got off to a good start, closer retired three batters in the first and bottom of the second. In the bottom of the third, hit and Hit by Pitch loaded the bases with one out, but he retired the next two batters in a row to struck out and then closer a runs until the eighth inning with a pitch to close out the rest of the inning.

After adding one more run in the top of the ninth on an RBI single by Hideto Asamura, Gu Xie pitcher went to mound in the bottom of the ninth. He struck out the leadoff Hiromi Oka on a grounder to left and Yudai Fujioka on a fly to left, and ended the game by striking out Eito Takabe on just two pitches.

Tohoku Rakuten made his first professional shutout game with starter pitcher Ko Xie throwing 103 pitches in nine innings hit 1 Hit by Pitch strike out 5 runs. win Soyama had a 2 hit 1 RBI, while Tatsumi and Muto had a 2 hit double. On the other hand, Chiba Lotte lost the game when starter pitcher hit 4 Walk 4 strike out 3 runs on 94 pitches in four innings. reliever The team couldn't hold on. Shogo Nakamura players have recorded 2 hit.

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Raku ○ Tatsuki Koja
Boss -Shunsuke Nakamori-Hirokazu Sawamura-Riku Kikuchi

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