On October 1, in the 24th round between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Fukuoka Softbank held at Rakuten Eagles Mobile's Strongest Park Miyagi, Fukuoka Softbank won decisively 8-2. This marked a gap of over 10 games with Saitama Seibu Lions in second place and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham in third, securing a two-win advantage in the "Persol CS Pa" final stage.

Fukuoka Softbank took the lead in the first inning with consecutive homers by Kensuke Kondo and Ryoya Kurihara. In the top of the second, Yuki Yanagita 's timely doble added the run, then Yudai Yamamoto hit his fifth two-run homer in the third and Yanagida hit his 19th solo homer in the fourth, extending the lead to seven runs.

​Naoyuki Uwasawa pitcher, who received reliable support from the start, finished the first round of hitter with no hit runs. In the bottom of the fourth, Fumiya Kurokawa gave up one run on his fifth solo homer, but then closed the crucial moments and was pulled in the seventh inning with 6 hit 8 strike out no walks Hit by Pitch 1 runs.

In the top of the 8th, Kenta Imamiya player sacrifice fly added a run, and in the bottom of that, Hsu Jo-Hsi pitcher did not pitch in the top team for the first time in four months, runs. In the bottom of the 9th, Hikaru Kimura pitcher led off and gave up a solo homer, but he stopped the runners. pitcher Uwasawa earned his 10th win, reaching double-digit win for the fourth time in two consecutive years. The lineup dominated the game, including the creation of four Home Run.

Meanwhile, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles started by Ryota Takinaka pitcher who gave up 9 hit 3 Home Run 6 runs over 3 innings, and the lineup was limited to 2 runs by Home Run from Kurokawa and YG Yasuda.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
H 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 8
E 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2

H ○Naoyuki Uwasawa-Hsu Jo-Hsi-Hikaru Kimura
E ●Ryota Takinaka-Chiharu Tanaka-Ren Kajiya-Katsutoshi Tai