On May 8, in the eighth round of the Farm regular season Tohoku Rakuten Eagles vs. Tokyo Yakult held in Shinrindori Stadium Izumi, the match ended in a 1-1 draw after extra inning matches.

The game began with a pitching duel between veterans Rakuten Eagles Takayuki Kishi pitcher Tohoku and Masanori Ishikawa pitcher Tokyo Yakult. pitcher Kishi pitched a brilliant 5-strike out after three innings. In the top of the fifth, with one out, he gave up his first consecutive hits, but managed to overcome the crisis by hitting his seventh struck out of the day. Meanwhile, the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles lineup had one out and bases loaded in the bottom of the first, but when the following batters fell to struck out in front of pitcher Ishikawa, they failed to score another home run in the second inning.

Kishi pitcher retired three batters in order in the top of the sixth and went to mound in the top of the seventh. With one out, Yasutaka Shiomi hit a hit, but Takaya Tanaka teamed up with the battery to stop the stolen base, and this inning was again runs. He pitched 7 innings with 93 pitches, 5 hit, no walks Hit by Pitch 8 strike out no runs and no pitches.

In the bottom of the eighth, with neither team scoring a run, Gonzalez reached base in hit. When pinch runner Atsuki Muto successfully stolen base, the Watts broke the deadlock with a timely doble to left field. However, in the top of the 9th, Naoki Hihata pitcher hit three consecutive homers to runs the game. Caught up at the last moment, the match went into extra inning games.

extra inning Top of the 10th, Ryuta Konno pitcher escaped a deadlock with runners on first and second with no outs and three strike out. In the bottom of the tie, the lineup failed to score with one out and runners on first and third, ending in a draw. The Quarters players fought hard with 2 hit RBI 1, and Kohiro Komori players fought 2 hit.

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YA Masaki ISHIKAWA - Shohei NUMATA - Kota NISHIDATE - Ryuto IITA - Kosuke SAKAGUCHI
Raku Takayuki Kishi-Tomohito Sakai-Naoki Hihata-Ryuta Konno

Text by Ayako Kikuchi

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