On September 19, the 17th regular season game between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham was held at Shinrindori Stadium Izumi, and Hokkaido Nippon-Ham win 8-2. Their first farm league championship in 15 years since 2011 was decided, and since the three-district system began this season, they became the first champions of the Eastern District.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham's starting pitcher Jay Ohkawa allowed a lead-off triple in the bottom of the 1st inning but retired the next three batters. He also had runner on base in the following two inning but shut down key situations, leaving the mound after 3 inning, 43 pitches, 2 hit, 0 Walk or Hit by Pitch, 4 strike out, and 0 runs.

In the top of the 4th inning, the lineup took a 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Uta Sakaguchi from a runner on 3rd with no outs after Yuki Umebayashi 's doble was combined with an opponent's error. In the top of the 5th inning, they added a run with consecutive hit from Yuma Imagawa and Martinez, and RBI hit were also produced by Kane Edokpolo and Sakaguchi, making the score 4-0.

The second pitcher Kotaro Yamashiro allowed 2 runs in 3 inning, but Takahide Ikeda followed with a scoreless bottom of the 7th. Then, in the top of the 8th inning, the lineup added runs with Naoki Arizono 's 6th solo home run and Ryosuke Myose 's RBI hit. In the following top of the 9th, Kota Yazawa blasted his 3rd 2-run home run. In the bottom of the 9th with the score at 8-2, the fifth pitcher Ryusei Kawano closed the game with three consecutive struck out.

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham, who clinched the Eastern District championship, showed strong connection in their lineup with a total of 18 hit and 8 RBI, notably, Kota Yazawa recorded 3 hit and 2 RBI, Ryosuke Myose recorded 3 hit and 1 RBI, and Yuki Umebayashi recorded 3 hit. On the other hand, for the defeated Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, pitcher Seiya Ouchi could not hold on, giving up 4 runs (earned runs 3) on 11 hit, 3 Walk, and 5 strike out in 4.1 inning with 113 pitches. The lineup had a total of 10 hit but was limited to 2 runs in the middle of the game.

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

F Jay Ohkawa-○Kotaro Yamashiro-Takahide Ikeda-Lao-Ryusei Kawano
E ●Seiya Ouchi-Takuma Matsuda-Wataru Karashima-Haruto Nakagomi-Contreras

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