Six professional baseball games were played, and Pacific League leader Seibu defeated second-placed Softbank, widening the game gap to 2.5.
▽ Central League
▽ Yakult won 5 to 3 in Yakult vs. Hanshin.
▼ Win, pitcher Takanashi 6 wins and 6 losses.
▼ Save, McGuff pitcher 2 losses 29 saves.
▼ Lose, pitcher Aoyagi 12 wins and 2 losses.
▼ Home run, Yakult Aoki player No. 5.
Hanshin Itohara player No. 3.
In the second inning, Yakult scored two points with Nagaoka's timely hits, and in the third inning, Murakami's timely hits and Nakamura's sacrifice fly added two more points.
Furthermore, in the 7th inning, Aoki's No. 5 solo scored an additional point.
Starting pitcher Takanashi pitched 6 times with 1 goal and won his 6th win.
Hanshin's starting pitcher Aoyagi ended his winning streak at 9 with 4 runs in the 4th inning.
Hanshin fell back to 5th place with 7 straight losses.
▽ DeNA won 3 to 1 in DeNA vs. Giants.
▼ Win, pitcher Imanaga 7 wins and 3 losses.
▼ Saves, Yamazaki pitcher has 2 losses and 26 saves.
▼ Lose, Sugano pitcher 6 wins and 6 losses.
▼ Home run, DeNA Soto player No. 11.
Giant, Kazuma Okamoto, No. 23.
In the 5th inning, which was 1-1, DeNA won 2 points with Soto's No. 11 solo and Kuwabara's timely two-base.
Starting pitcher Imanaga pitched well with one goal in the 7th inning, scoring his 7th win, and pitcher Yamazaki made his 26th save.
In the Giants, pitcher Sugano, who pitched for the first time in about a month, suffered his sixth loss with three goals in six innings.
▽ Hiroshima won 5-0 in Hiroshima vs. Chunichi.
▼ Won, pitcher Morishita 10 wins and 6 losses.
▼ Lose, Pitcher Yanagi 7 wins and 9 losses.
▼ Home runs, Hiroshima · Dobayashi player No. 6, No. 7, Yano player No. 1.
In the first inning, Hiroshima took the lead with Dobayashi's No. 6 solo, and in the second inning, he added three points with Yano's first professional home run, No. 1 Touran.
In the 5th inning, Dobayashi extended his lead by hitting No. 7 solo, the second home run of the game.
The starting pitcher Morishita closed the key points even though he had 9 hits, and won his 10th win with two consecutive shutouts.
In Chunichi, the team's winning streak ended at 3, as the starting pitcher Yanagi collapsed with 5 goals in the 6th inning.
▽ Pacific League
▽ In Seibu vs. Softbank, Seibu won 2 to 0.
▼ Win, pitcher Takahashi 7 wins and 7 losses.
▼ Saves, pitcher Masuda 2 wins, 2 losses, 23 saves.
▼ Lose, pitcher Ishikawa 4 wins and 7 losses.
▼ Home run, Seibu Mori player No. 5.
Seibu scored 2 points in the 4th inning, Mori's No. 5 Touran.
Starting pitcher Takahashi scored his 7th win since June 24th with no runs in 6 innings, even though he had a runner.
Softbank starting pitcher Ishikawa pitched well, giving up two runs in the middle of the eighth inning, but there was no batting support.
▽ Orix vs. Lotte won 4 to 0 with rain cold during the 7th inning.
▼ Win, pitcher Mima 6 wins and 6 losses.
▼ Lose, pitcher Yamaoka 6 wins and 6 losses.
▼ Home run, Lotte Yamaguchi player No. 9.
In the 6th inning, Lotte scored 3 points with Yamaguchi's No. 9 three-run, and added 1 point in the 7th inning between Yasuda's first grounder.
Starting pitcher Mima threw until the middle of the 7th inning and scored his 6th win with 5 hits and no runs.
Yamaoka, the starting pitcher of Orix, was hit hard by missing pitches in the sixth inning.
▽ Nippon-Ham vs. Rakuten won 2-1.
▼ Win, pitcher Norimoto 7 wins and 7 losses.
▼ Saves, Hiroki Matsui has 1 win, 2 losses and 23 saves.
▼ Losing, Nemoto pitcher 2 wins and 3 losses.
▼ Home run, Nippon-Ham Kondo player No. 5.
Rakuten reversed with Ota's 2-point timely two-base in the 4th inning of 0-1.
Starting pitcher Norimoto scored his 7th victory since June 28th with a good pitching of 7 runs with 1 goal.
Nippon Ham's starting pitcher Nemoto gave up 2 points in the middle of the 8th inning, but the batting line could not support Kondo's No. 5 solo.