In professional baseball, five day games and one night game were played, and pitcher Rookie Hayakawa, who was the first in the draft of Rakuten, won the third victory in line with the top of the league.
Pacific League
▽ Rakuten vs. Seibu, Rakuten won 8-4.
Rakuten collected 6 long and short hits such as Okajima's timely two bases twice and scored 5 points at a stroke.
And in the 6th inning, Shimauchi's runners were wiped out from bases loaded in a timely two-base manner.
Starting pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa, the first-placed rookie in the draft, scored three goals in the sixth inning, scoring his third win in line with the league leaders.
Seibu lost 6 games in a row with two draws due to the loss in the early stages.
▽ Lotte vs. Softbank, Lotte won 8-5.
Lotte took the lead in the 4th inning with Kakunaka's timely lead, with Yasuda's No. 5 Touran in the 5th and Yamaguchi's No. 4 Touran in the 6th.
Starting pitcher Suzuki, the first-placed rookie in the draft, scored his first professional victory with a good pitching of 2 goals in the middle of the 7th inning.
Pitcher Chihaya Sasaki is the first professional save.
In Softbank, starting pitcher Matsumoto collapsed with 7 goals in the middle of the 6th inning.
▽ Nippon-Ham vs. Orix drew 4 to 4.
Nippon-Ham took the lead with 3 points in the first inning, but allowed a reversal, and in the 9th inning to chase 1 point, Kondo hit No. 4 solo and brought it to the draw.
In the 8th inning to chase 2 points, Orix took the lead by scoring 3 points in Kurebayashi's timely two base, but could not escape.
Central League
▽ In Hanshin vs. DeNA, Hanshin won 7-5.
Hanshin caught up with Oyama's sacrifice fly in the 7th inning immediately after being reversed to 4 to 5, and won with Suns' No. 7 Touran. The second pitcher, Yuta Iwasada, is the first win of the season. In DeNA, Sano scored three RBIs in a row and took the lead twice, but the pitchers did not come out.
▽ Giants vs. Hiroshima, Hiroshima won 9-8.
In the 9th inning, immediately after being overtaken by 6 points, Hiroshima won with a sacrifice fly by Ryosuke Kikuchi with a 1-out third base with Shosei Nakamura's two-base hitter. The fifth pitcher, Atsuya Horie, won his first victory of the season, and Kuribayashi scored his eighth save. The Giants were sticky, but a large number of runs in the middle stage echoed.
▽ Yakult vs. Chunichi, Yakult won 4-3.
Yakult caught up with Nakamura's No. 2 solo once, and Murakami's No. 8 solo in the fourth, both newcomers Santana and Osuna hit their first home run in Japan and scored three points. Starting pitcher Ogawa is the second win with 3 goals in the 7th inning. Yakult has risen to second place with five consecutive victories for the first time in three years. Chunichi lost three games in a row, and the number of losses was 6, the highest number this season.