◇ Tohoku Rakuten Eagles vs Hokkaido Nippon-Ham 7th Round (4th, Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi)

​Ren Fukushima pitcher of Hokkaido Nippon-Ham pitched 7.1 innings with 111 pitches, 6 hit 1 Walk, 7 strike out 2 runs, and a strong performance.

He retired all three batters in just eight pitches in the first inning, then kept getting out at a good pace with pitch to keep batting in the first inning. Up to the sixth inning, he closer three single hit batters and do not let him step on second base.

Just after giving up one run of support, in the bottom of the seventh, he gave up his first extra-base hit of the game to Hideto Asamura leadoff pitcher. He faced a crisis with runners on second and third with one out and runners on second and third on Itsuki Murabayashi Walk, but managed to get through closer with Gonzalez and Hikaru Ota swinging struck out and making runs without a pitch. However, in the bottom of the eighth, after losing two runs due to Home Run by Ryuya Taira and Ryosuke Tatsumi players, he was taken out of the game.

In his first first-team appearance of the season (April 23), he was lose pitcher pitcher Fukushima with 106 pitches, 8 hit, 3 Walk, and 3 runs in 5.1 innings. This game was also lose pitcher, but he recorded a HQS with two runs in the middle of the eighth inning.

Text by Kanako Fukushima