In professional baseball, six interleague games were played, and Orix decided to win the championship for the first time in 11 years.
▽ Orix vs. Hiroshima, Orix won 3-2.
Orix scored three points on a timely three-base runner-cleaning of Fukuda from bases loaded two outs in the second inning.
Starting pitcher Tajima has hit four in five innings and is the third win with no runs.
Orix has won five straight games with one draw in between.
Hiroshima didn't get a timely chance and lost 6 games in a row with two draws in between.
▽ Rakuten vs. Hanshin, Hanshin won 9: 1.
Hanshin took the lead in the 4th inning with Oyama's No. 8 Touran.
In the 6th inning, Teruaki Sato's No. 16 solo, and in the 9th inning, Kinami's No. 1 Touran, etc. added 6 points in a batter's round of attacks.
Starting pitcher Masashi Itoh is the fourth win with one goal in the seventh inning.
The Hanshin Tigers have increased their winning streak to 5, deciding to win the interleague game for the first time since the season four years ago.
In Rakuten, starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka suffered a fourth defeat with three goals in the seventh inning.
▽ Softbank vs. Yakult, Yakult won 4-2.
Yakult caught up with Yamada's No. 15 solo in the 6th inning, Nakamura's timely in the 7th inning, and won in the 8th inning with Yamada's 2nd consecutive home run, No. 16 Touran.
Starting pitcher Ogawa scored his sixth win in a row with two goals in the seventh inning.
Softbank led Yanagita's No. 14 solo, but the pitchers did not stick.
▽ Lotte vs. Giants, the Giants won 11-4.
The giant took the lead with Kazuma Okamoto's No. 18 three-run in the first inning, and in the third inning, he added seven points at once with seven consecutive hits such as Kazuma Okamoto's No. 19 three-run and Nakajima's No. 4 three-run.
Starting pitcher Togoh is the sixth win with two goals in the seventh inning.
In Lotte, starting pitcher Mima was hit with 10 goals in the middle of the third inning.
Lotte has broken the winning percentage of 50% since April 16th.
▽ Seibu vs. Chunichi Seibu won 7-3.
Seibu scored 6 points at a time with Wu's timely infield hits and Spangenberg's runner-cleaning timely three-base.
Starting pitcher Imai scored his fourth win with two goals in seven innings with tenacious pitching while carrying a runner on his back.
It sounded that the starting pitcher Okano suddenly collapsed once in the middle of the day.
▽ Nippon-Ham vs. DeNA, Nippon-Ham won 4-3.
In the 4th inning, Ryo Ishikawa took the lead with 2 points in a timely manner, and added 1 point each in the 5th and 6th innings to widen the lead.
Starting pitcher Ikeda is the third win with one goal in the middle of the sixth inning. The team's losing streak was stopped at 4.
DeNA did not catch up.