【Professional Baseball Results】Lost to Hiroshima, Stops Winning Seven.

2023-05-19T13:58:09.548Z

Highlights: In professional baseball, two games were canceled due to rain on the 19th, and three games were played. Central League leader Hanshin lost to Hiroshima, ending their winning streak at seven. SoftBank vs. Seibu, SoftBank won 5-4, moving the team to second place. Orix vs. Japan Ham was won by Japan Ham 1-0, and Orix lost 3-0 to SoftBank in their third shutout loss of the season. In the match between Hanshin and Hiroshima, Hiroshima won 10-7, and Hanshin's starting pitcher gave up seven runs.

【NHK】Two professional baseball games were canceled due to rain on the 19th, and three games were played, and Central League leaders Hanshin lost to Hiroshima, ending their winning streak at seven.

In professional baseball, two games were canceled due to rain on the 19th, and three games were played, and Central League leader Hanshin lost to Hiroshima, ending their winning streak at seven.

Pacific League

Oryx vs Japan Ham

Orix vs. Japan Ham was won by Japan Ham 1-0.

○ Win: Pitcher Takayuki Kato 3 wins and 2 losses.
Savings: Pitcher Masayoshi Tanaka 1 win, 1 loss, 5 saves.
- Loss: Abe pitcher 2 losses and 1 save.

Trailing 0-0 in the eighth inning, Japan-Ham broke the balance when Hanson, a new foreign player who joined the club from the independent league this month, hit a timely hit, his first hit as a pinch hitter. Starting pitcher Takayuki Kato pitched carefully and allowed no runs on four hits in eight innings to earn his third win, and the team has won three in a row.

Orix suffered their third straight loss of the season with their third shutout loss of the season.

SoftBank vs Seibu

In SoftBank vs. Seibu, SoftBank won 5-4.

○ Wins: Ishikawa pitchers 3 wins and 1 loss.
Savings: Osuna pitcher made 8 saves.
- Loss: Matsumoto pitcher 2 wins and 3 losses.
◎ Home run: SoftBank Kondo No. 5.
Seibu Sotozaki No. 7, Yokawa No. 1.

SoftBank scored three runs in the second inning, 2-2, thanks to Kai's timely run and Imamiya's timely two-run double. Starting pitcher Ishikawa pitched through the middle of the eighth inning, striking out 2 and allowing four runs to earn his third win, moving the team to second place.

Seibu was unable to play its role as starting pitcher Matsumoto gave up five runs in the middle of the second inning. Seibu dropped to fifth place after three consecutive losses.

Central League

Hanshin vs Hiroshima

In the match between Hanshin and Hiroshima, Hiroshima won 10-7.

○ Wins: Kemna pitcher 2 wins.
Savings: Yazaki pitcher 3 wins and 3 saves.
- Loss: Oikawa pitcher 1 win 1 loss.
◎ Home run: Hiroshima Dobayashi No. 2.
Hanshin Noisy No. 3, Teruaki Sato No. 8, Oyama No. 4.

Hiroshima scored five runs in the first inning with 1 batters and added two more runs in the fifth. Matsuyama's timely groundout in the sixth inning immediately after tying the game was tied, and the relievers kept the game scoreless after the sixth inning.

Hanshin's starting pitcher, Aoyagi, gave up seven runs in five innings, and the relievers were lackluster, ending the team's winning streak at seven.

2 games cancelled

Rakuten vs Lotte and DeNA vs Yakult were canceled due to rain.

Source: nhk