Six professional baseball games were played, and in the Pacific League, Lotte pitcher Aki Sasaki won his second victory by winning a pitching battle with Orix pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Lotte 2-0 Orix Sawamura saves for the first time in three seasons

Win Aki Sasaki 2 wins
S Sawamura pitcher 1 win 1 save
Lotte won 1-1

Lotte opened the scoring in the fourth inning on a timely hit by Chatani, and then scored an extra run in the seventh on Fujioka's timely RBI. Starting pitcher Aki Sasaki earned his second win without allowing a single runner until the fifth inning, allowing one hit in seven innings with 4 strikeouts and no runs. Pitcher Sawamura earned his first save in three seasons.

Orix starting pitcher Yamamoto pitched well, allowing one run with nine strikeouts in six innings, but there was no support from the batting lineup.

Rakuten 3-0 SoftBank Masahiro Tanaka wins second game without conceding a run in five innings

Win Masahiro Tanaka 2-1 S Pitcher Hiroki Matsui 4 saves
Wada 1-1
home run: Rakuten Yasuda's No. 1 Rakuten opened the scoring with Yasuda's No. 2
three-run double in the second inning, and starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka pitched tenaciously to earn his second win with seven hits and no runs in five innings.

Pitcher Hiroki Matsui earned his fourth save. Rakuten stopped its losing streak at 1.

SoftBank gave up three runs in four innings when Wada gave up his first loss of the game, ending their winning streak at three.

Japan-Ham 5-2 Seibu Takayuki Kato pitches a complete game to earn his first win of the season

Win Takayuki Kato 1-2 Matsumoto 1-1

home run: Japan Ham, No. 3 Seibu Sotozaki No. 2
Japan Ham took the lead in the third inning on No. 3 three runs by No
. 3. After that, they extended the lead with a squeeze by Ihata in the fourth inning and a timely two-base hit by Kiyomiya in the seventh. Starting pitcher Takayuki Kato pitched a complete game with two runs in nine innings to earn his first win of the season.

Seibu barely escaped the shutout loss in the ninth inning on Sozaki's two-run homer.

DeNA 8-3 Hanshin DeNA scored four runs in the fifth inning to win the come-from-behind

Win Gazelman pitcher 2 games
Aoyagi pitcher 1-1 DeNA

scored four runs in the fifth inning, including a 1-2 foreball and Sekine's timely two-run double by Sekine. They added three runs in the sixth inning on Sano's timely two-run double by Sano. The starting pitcher Gazelleman earned his second win by allowing two runs in five innings.

Hanshin's starting pitcher, Aoyagi, gave up five runs in the middle of the fifth inning.

Hiroshima 1-0 Yakult (top of 8th inning, rain cold)

Win Osera Pitcher 2-1 S Turley 1 save
Ogawa 1-1
Hiroshima

took a 0-0 lead in the sixth inning on a timely one-run single by Noma. Starting pitcher Yoshira Osera and relievers protected the lead.

Yakult's starting pitcher, Ogawa, pitched well, giving up one run in six innings, but there was no support from the batting lineup.

Chunichi 9-2 Giants Giants fall to last place after three consecutive losses

Win Ogasawara pitcher 1 game
Beady pitcher 2 losses

Chunichi took a four-run lead on timely grounds by Ogasawara and Oshima by the fourth inning, and Kinoshita hit a timely two-base hit in the seventh inning to earn the win with 4 hits. Starting pitcher Ogasawara pitched a good six-inning, two-run game to earn his first win of the season.

The Giants fell to the bottom of the table with three straight losses due to the collapse of their pitching staff.