In professional baseball, three Pacific League games were played, and Lotte, the leader, drew and Orix, the second place, won, so there was no magic number to win Lotte.
▽ Softbank vs. Lotte drew 1: 1.
Lotte scored a timely tie for Pinch Hitter Yasuda from 0 to 1 in the 7th inning, 2 outs, 1st base and 3rd base.
In Softbank, starting pitcher Martinez pitched well with one goal in the 7th inning, but did not take advantage of the chances of winning in the 8th and 9th innings.
▽ Rakuten vs. Orix, Orix won 3 to 1.
Orix won the No. 27 Touran of Sugimoto eight times, one-on-one.
Starting pitcher Tajima scored his sixth win since June 30 with a good pitching of four hits and one goal in eight innings.
Orix stopped the losing streak at 4.
In Rakuten, starting pitcher Takahiro Norimoto scored 1 goal in the 6th inning, but there was no support from the batting line.
▽ Seibu vs. Nippon-Ham, Nippon-Ham won 3 to 1.
Nippon-Ham took the lead with Ronny Rodriguez's No. 3 solo in the second inning, Shimizu's timely two-base in the fifth inning, and Wang's sacrifice fly in the sixth inning.
Starting pitcher Uwasawa is the ninth win with a good pitcher who takes one goal in eight innings and eight strikeouts.
In Seibu, starting pitcher Matsumoto suffered an eighth loss with five consecutive losses, and the team's consecutive wins stopped at three.