In a professional baseball, Pacific League match between Seibu and Lotte, two double play hits were recorded in one inning.
This is the sixth rare record in professional baseball for the first time in 10 years since 2011.
On the 28th, Lotte's No. 2 Martin hit the first grounder at the 1st no-out first base scene of Seibu vs. Lotte held at MetLife Dome in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture.
The ground ball was sent to second base and the first base runner was out.
Furthermore, when the ball was thrown from second base to first base, the pitcher who entered the base cover of the first base failed to take it, and Martin became safe.
First of all, this play set a record for the first double play.
After that, Katsuya Kakunaka, who was 5th in the one-out first base and second base, hit the pitcher goro.
After the ball was thrown from the pitcher to the second base and the first base runner was out, Kakunaka was also out by throwing the ball from the second base to the first base, and two double play hits were recorded in one inning.
It is the sixth rare record in 10 years since Hiroshima recorded the double play in one inning in professional baseball on July 15, 2011.
In the Pacific League, it was the third record in 11 years since Nippon Ham recorded it in the Seibu match on April 4, 2010.