On April 17, the first round between Fukuoka Softbank and Orix Buffaloes held in MIZUHO PayPay Dome ended win Orix Buffaloes 13-4.

Orix Buffaloes took the lead in the first inning with Yuma Mune player hitter Home Run as the fourth leadoff hit, and with two Walk, with runners on first and second and one out, Ryo Ota hit a timely hit to score the second run. In the top of the second inning, with one out and bases loaded, infield grounded out and Keita Nakagawa hit a timely hit to add two more runs. Ota followed up with his second three-run homer, scoring 7 runs in 2 inning.

Starting pitcher Taito Takashima pitcher Ukyo Shuto in the first inning, Kensuke Kondo Losing one point due to a series of player hits. In the bottom of the fourth, he runs between infield grounders, but otherwise he delivered pitch that tightened key moments. He carried runner every time, but he managed to throw 92 pitches in 6 innings, 6 hit 1 Hit by Pitch 4 strike out 2 runs.

In the top of the 5th, Ota and Tomoya Mori hit timely hits to score 2 runs, and in the top of the 8th, Kotaro Kobayashi hit his second solo home run and Haruto Watanabe hit his first two-run homer to add 3 more runs. In the bottom of the eighth, Kaito Iriyama pitcher hit a solo homer for Kensuke Kondo 's sixth and Ryoya Kurihara 's third solo for two runs, but the gap remained largely unchanged. In the top of the ninth, Tomoya Noguchi added runs on a timely hit, ending the game 13-4.

win Orix Buffaloes was win Takashima pitcher for the first time this season. In the lineup of 18 hit 13 runs, Watanabe reached base in every at-bat with 3 hit and 3 Hit by Pitch walks, including his first professional Home Run, while Ota performed well in 3 hit 5 RBI. The losing Fukuoka Softbank was runs starting pitcher Hsu Jo-Hsi pitcher 1.2 innings, 6 hit, 5 walks, Hit by Pitch 7 . All pitcher who pitched were runs, resulting in a heavy defeat.

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O ○Takashima Yasuto -Nobuyoshi Yamada-Kaito Iriyama-Kazuma Sato
● Hsu Jo-Hsi-Kazuo Ono-Gota Suzuki Gota -Yusuke Ito