Four professional baseball games were played, and SoftBank, who finished third in the Pacific League, defeated second-place Lotte thanks to Arihara's good pitching, narrowing the gap to 4.

Pacific League

SoftBank × Lotte

SoftBank vs Lotte was won by SoftBank 4-2.

○ Wins: Arihara pitcher 9 wins and 4 losses.
Savings: Osuna pitcher 3-2 with 23 saves.
- Losses: Taneichi pitcher 10 wins and 6 losses.
◎ Home run: SoftBank Kondo No. 23.
Lotte Polanco No. 25.

SoftBank took a one-run lead in the first inning, but after a timely tie by Yanagida Kondo hit a three-run shot to Wright to win the game.

Starting pitcher Arihara gave up two runs early on, but didn't give up a run after the fourth inning and pitched until the seventh inning, earning his ninth win in three consecutive wins.

Third-place SoftBank, which has returned to a 1% win percentage, narrowed the gap to second-place Lotte to 1.

Lotte lost three in a row after starting pitcher Taneichi gave up four runs in the first inning.

Rakuten × Seibu

Rakuten vs. Seibu was won by Seibu 7-2.

○ Wins: Imai pitcher 10 wins and 4 losses.
- Loss: Shiomi pitcher 1 loss.
◎ Home runs: Seibu Kento Watanabe No. 6, McKinnon No. 14 and No. 15.
Rakuten Asamura No. 25.

Seibu opened the scoring in the second inning on a two-run double by Kento Watanabe, and McKinnon hit a two-run double in the third and a three-run shot in the fifth to extend the lead.

Seibu won three consecutive games to clinch their second consecutive win against Rakuten.

Starting pitcher Imai pitched eight innings and gave up two runs to earn his 2th win and reach double-digit wins for the first time.

Rakuten's starting pitcher, Shiomi, who made his first start in two years, walked off the mound for four runs in four innings and was unable to create a game, opening the gap to third-place SoftBank to 3.5.

Central League

Hanshin × Giants

Hanshin vs. Giants was won by the Giants 5-3.

○ Wins: Akahoshi pitcher 4 wins and 5 losses.
Savings: Nakagawa pitched 1-3, 13 saves.
- Loss: Aoyagi pitcher 8 wins and 5 losses.
◎ Home run: Giant Takuzo Oshiro No. 16.
Hanshin Mieses No. 5, Teruaki Sato No. 21.

The Giants took the lead in the sixth inning on Maru's timely groundout, followed by pinch hitter Takuzo Oshiro's bases-loaded home run to score five runs in the inning.

In the ninth inning, a large number of pitchers hit two home runs to cut the deficit to two runs, but they escaped.

The starting pitcher allowed six hits and no runs in eight innings to earn his fourth win.

Hanshin pitcher Aoyagi, who had been limited to just one hit until the fifth inning, collapsed in the sixth inning, and the batting line caught up in the ninth inning, but it could not reach.

Yakult × Chunichi

In the Yakult-Chunichi match, Chunichi won 9-8.

○ Wins: Hashimoto pitcher 1 win.
Saves: Fujishima pitcher 1 win, 1 loss, 2 saves.
● Losses: Cy Snade pitcher 7 wins and 8 losses.
◎ Home run: Chunichi Kinoshita No. 5.
Yakult Yamada No. 13, Shiomi No. 7.

Trailing by four runs in the sixth inning, Chunichi created chances with foreballs with no runners on with two outs, and scored six runs on a timely two-base double by Kinoshita and a timely bases-loaded walk by Okabayashi to clear out a runner.

Hashimoto, who pitched five scoreless innings, earned his first professional win in four years.

Yakult had 4 hits, including four hits and five RBIs, including a bases-loaded home run, but starting pitcher Cy Sneed gave up nine runs and lost the game.