Results of professional baseball 18th Softbank 8 consecutive wins October 18th 21:16
In professional baseball, six day games were played, and the game difference widened to 5.5 as the Pacific League leader Softbank won eight consecutive victories and the second-placed Lotte lost.
Pacific League
▽ Softbank vs. Rakuten, Softbank won 11-4.
Softbank scored 7 points at a stroke in the 8th inning of 4 to 4, with consecutive timely two bases of pinch hitter Akashi and Shuto.
Moinelo, the fifth pitcher, won the second victory.
Softbank has reached 60 wins this season with eight consecutive wins.
Rakuten lost three games in a row and the winning percentage was less than 50%.
▽ Lotte vs. Nippon-Ham, Nippon-Ham won 5-2.
Nippon-Ham made a comeback by scoring 4 points in a timely manner with 2 points by Usami and Kondo in the 5th inning to chase 1 point.
Starting pitcher Arihara is the 7th win with a good pitching of 1 goal in the 7th inning.
In Lotte, starting pitcher Mima collapsed with 5 goals in the middle of the 6th inning, and the batting line did not take advantage of repeated chances.
▽ Seibu vs. Orix, Seibu won 3-2.
Seibu took the lead in the second inning with Kaneko's 2 points timely and Genda's timely 3 points.
Starting pitcher Matsumoto is the fifth win with one goal in the sixth inning.
Pitcher Masuda is the 28th save.
Orix was close to 1 point in the 9th inning, and made 1 out, 1st base and 3rd base, but did not take advantage of the chance.
Central League
▽ DeNA vs. Giants DeNA won 10-6.
DeNA returned 2 points with 4 consecutive hits in the 7th inning, chasing 5 points, and then turned around with Kajitani's 18th full-base home run. Kajitani widened his lead by hitting No. 19 Touran in the 8th inning. The fourth pitcher, Escobar, is the first win of the season.
The giant was hit by a relief team at the end of the game.
▽ Hiroshima vs. Chunichi Hiroshima won 5-0.
In the 4th inning, Nishikawa took the lead with No. 5 solo, and in the 5th inning, Seiya Suzuki expanded his lead with No. 24 three-run. Starting pitcher Yuta Nakamura is the third win with no runs in the seventh inning.
Chunichi lost the shutout with 11 left on base and a bad attack while hitting 10 hits.
The winning streak stopped at 7.
▽ Hanshin vs. Yakult, Hanshin won 6-5.
Hanshin once made a comeback with Oyama's two-point timely, and expanded his lead with Bohr's No. 17 Touran. In the 4th inning, Itoi added 2 points in a timely manner. Starting pitcher Akiyama is the 8th win with 4 runs in the 5th inning. I ran away with a relay of five pitchers.
Yakult did not play the role of starting pitcher Ogawa with 4 runs in the middle of the 2nd inning, and caught up by 1 point in the 9th inning, but did not reach.
As a result of the match on the 18th, the magic number for the championship of the leader and giant was reduced by one to "7" because the second place Chunichi lost.