On June 17, in the third round of the 'Nippon Life Central-Pacific League Interleague 2026' between Hanshin Tigers and Tohoku Rakuten Eagles held in Koshien, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles suffered a heavy defeat with a score of 3-10. They finished interleague play with a .222 winning percentage of 4 wins and 14 losses.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 's starting pitcher was Kenta Maeda pitcher. In the bottom of the 2nd, Yusuke Oyama hit his 8th two-run homer, giving the team the lead, but this was the only run they allowed. He pitched 5 innings, 75 pitches, 4 hit, no walks Hit by Pitch 6 strike out 2 runs. However, Sota Fujiwara pitcher in the bottom of the 6th and Chia-Hao Sung pitcher in the bottom of the 7th each runs the game. The batting lineup was 3-hit scoreless through seven innings, unable to provide support.

Still, in the top of the eighth, with Fumiya Kurokawa and Itsuki Murabayashi hit, runners on second and third out, runners on second and third, and Tsuyoshi Ishihara 's timely infield hit, bad throw got in and scored two runs. Then, with two outs and a runner on third, Ryuya Taira player hit a timely infield hit to score the third run. However, in the bottom of the eighth, Ryu Kutani pitcher committed two errors, making it 4 runs (earned runs 0). The top of the ninth ended scoreless, ending the game 3-10.

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Raku ● Kenta Maeda-Sota Fujiwara-Chia-Hao Sung-Ryu Kutani
God ○ Kotaro Otake - Yasunari Kudo - Masaki Oikawa - Doris - Yuya Ishiguro