On September 13, in the 17th round of the Farm regular season vs. Tohoku Rakuten Eagles vs. Oisix Niigata at York Kaiseiyama Stadium, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles won walk-off win 2-1.

Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 's starter Ryota Takinaka pitcher escaped the first inning with one out and runners on first and second with no runs, and from the second inning, he closer three consecutive inning to hitter three-pitch batter. In the top of the fifth, with one out and a runner on second, he gave up a run on a timely hit but did not allow any further runs and was taken out after 5 innings with 62 pitches, 5 hit, no walks, Hit by Pitch 1 runs.

The lineup struggled with 3 hit scoreless through the 6th inning. Still, in the bottom of the 7th, with two outs, Kyosuke Kaneko and Toshiya Osakae players hit in succession, creating a good opportunity, and the Quarters player followed with a timely hit, bringing the game to the start. The relief team connected with a 4-pitcher runs relay from the 6th inning.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, with four Hit by Pitch and two outs, runners on first and second, walk-off chance. Here, player Daita Horomura drove the ball to left field, and Daiei, who was runner on second base, scored with a headsliding shot. In addition to Horomura hitting a 2-hit RBI to 1, Kaneko and Daiei also contributed two hit.

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

O Yudai Abe-Kenta Anjo-Naoya Ishikawa-Kaito Irei-●Tomoki Uemura
E Ryota Takinaka-Uchi Seiryu-Takuma Makazawa-Sota Fujiwara-○Chiharu Tanaka

Text by Aoi Nishijima

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