On September 18, in the 16th round of the Farm regular season against Tohoku Rakuten Eagles Hokkaido Nippon-Ham held in Shinrindori Stadium Izumi, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles win 5-3.

Starter Masaru Fujii pitcher caused a no-outs bases loaded crisis in the first inning after a series of hits, but managed only one run with sacrifice fly by Kazuki Miyazaki. In the top of the fourth, Hiroki Tsuneya sacrifice fly again runs the , and in the fourth inning, he threw 57 pitches, 4 hit, 1 Walk, 2 runs to get mound out. In the top of the sixth, Kazuto Tokuyama pitcher, who underwent Tommy John surgery last July, made his first appearance of the season and closer runs despite giving up two hit.

In the bottom of the second, the lineup bases loaded with no outs after hit by Kyosuke Kaneko and Tsuyoshi Ishihara, tying the game during a wild pitch. Then, Atsuki Muto hit a timely triple to take a two-run lead. In the bottom of the fifth, they got another bases loaded opportunity in the fourth Hit by Pitch, and added more runs with a balk and Daichi Suzuki hitting to make it 5-2.

Fourth pitcher Uchi Seiryu pitcher gave up a run in the top of the 7th inning between two steals from two outs with runners on first and third, but did not allow any further runs afterward. From the 8th inning, Sota Fujiwara pitcher and Chiharu Tanaka pitcher connected, ending the game 5-3. The win Tohoku Rakuten Eagles had Tsuyoshi Ishihara player mark two hit.

Meanwhile, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham 's starting pitcher Tamon Asari pitcher struggled, throwing 63 pitches hit 3 runs 3 over 3 innings. The lineup also created good opportunities with 9 hit, but couldn't score a single home run from the middle innings onward.

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

F ●Tamon Asari-Daiki Shimizu-Towa Yokoyama-Koki Matsuoka
E ○Masaru Fujii-Florimon-Kazuto Tokuyama-Uchi Seiryu-Sota Fujiwara-S Chiharu Tanaka

Text by Minagi Niwa

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