【Professional Baseball Results】SoftBank and Rakuten win 2nd~4th place difference "1"

Highlights: Six professional baseball teams will be in the same place at the same time to compete for a head-to-head match-up. The two teams will compete to see who can win the most points. The winner will be crowned the winner of the "Climb with confidence" contest. The other team will be known as "Crimson Tide" after the team that won the game. The game will be played for the first time in two years, and it will be the second time in three years.

【NHK】Six professional baseball games will be played, and the battle for the Pacific League's Climax Series will be in third place, SoftBank will compete for second place, and Lotte will compete for a head-to-head ...

Six professional baseball games were played, and the battle for the Climax Series of the Pacific League was a close contest in which the gap between second and fourth place was narrowed to "6" by 3rd place, SoftBank won the head-to-head match with 2nd and 4nd place Lotte, and 2th place Rakuten also won.

Central League

Hiroshima vs Yakult

Yakult won 3-1.

○ Wins: Ogawa pitchers 10 wins, 8 losses Saves: Taguchi pitchers 2 wins, 4 losses, 33 saves
● Losses: Kuri pitchers 8 wins, 8 losses

, Yakult chased one run in the fourth inning, scoring two runs on Yamada's timely base and Murakami's timely two-base play. They added one run in the seventh inning on a timely bases-loaded single by Shiomi.

Starting pitcher Ogawa pitched eight innings and gave up four hits and one run to earn his 1th double-digit win in three years.

Hiroshima was unable to put a runner on after the fifth inning.

DeNA vs Giants

The Giants won 6-0.

○ Win: Togo pitcher 12 wins 5 losses
● Loss: Konaga pitcher 7 wins 4
losses ◎ Home runs: Giants Sakamoto No. 21 The
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Giants opened the scoring on a sacrifice fly by Brinson in the fourth inning, and Sakamoto hit a two-run double in the fifth and a three-run double in the ninth.

Sakamoto had five RBIs in the game, bringing his total to 4,5, becoming the 9th player in professional baseball history to reach 5,1004 RBIs.

Starting pitcher Togo threw 49 pitches and allowed only six hits, earning his 1000th win with his second shutout of the season.

The fourth-place Giants clinched the win against DeNA this season.

In third place, DeNA couldn't hold on to their starting pitcher, and the gap between them and the Giants was reduced to "113".

Chunichi vs Hanshin

In 12 innings, the game was tied 0-0 by regulation.

In Chunichi, starting pitcher Yanagi threw eight scoreless innings.

He did not give a foreball and only had three hits.

Hanshin starter Saiki threw a season-high 8 pitches and threw 3 innings, allowing five hits and no runs.

Both teams couldn't get any support for the batting lineup, and Hanshin advanced runners into scoring position every time they went into extra innings, but they couldn't get one out.

Pacific League

Lotte vs. SoftBank

SoftBank won 7-6.

○ Win: Kayama pitcher 1 win
Save: Osuna pitcher 3 wins, 2 losses, 24 saves ● Loss: Yokoyama pitcher 2 wins, 3 losses
, 1 save
◎ Home run: Lotte Wada No.

2SoftBank scored five runs in the first inning on timely grounds by Yanagida and Imamiya, and added another run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Yanagida.

The second pitcher, Yoshima Kaya, won for the first time in two seasons, and SoftBank returned to 1%.

Lotte was unable to play its role as pitcher Yokoyama, who took the starting mound for the first time in place of pitcher Aki Sasaki, who avoided the starting lineup due to a fever, and gave up five runs in the first inning.

Lotte lost five consecutive games and had a winning percentage of 5%, tied for second place with SoftBank.

Rakuten vs. Japan Ham

Rakuten won the bye 3-1.

○ Win: Pitcher Hiroki Matsui 2 wins, 3 losses, 37 saves
● Loss: Ikeda pitcher 1 win 5
losses ◎ Home run: Rakuten / Shimauchi No.

7 Rakuten chased one run in the seventh inning with Asamura's timely two-base play, and in the ninth inning, The game was decided by Shimauchi's goodbye two-run home run.

Starting pitcher Shoji pitched seven innings, allowing three hits and one run, and pitcher Hiroki Matsui, who pitched the third in the ninth, struck out three to hold the team scoreless and earn his second win.

Rakuten clinched their fifth consecutive win against Japan Ham, leaving the gap between Lotte and SoftBank, who are tied in second place, to 1.

Japan Ham was confirmed to be in fourth place.

Orix vs Seibu

Orix won 4-1.

○ Wins: Yamamoto pitchers 15 wins 6 losses Saves: Yoshitoshi Hirano 3 wins
, 2 losses, 27 saves
● Losses: Sumida pitchers 9 wins 9 losses
◎ Home runs, Orix Mori No. 17, Gonzalez No.

11 Orix 6 innings, Mori's solo home run and Gonzalez's three-run home run gave them a four-run lead.

Yamamoto, who leads the league in starting and fielding percentage, earned his 4th win with three hits and no runs in seven innings, striking out 7 each time to lead the league in strikeouts.

Orix has won six in a row.

Seibu's winning streak stopped at four.