On September 19, in the 21st round between Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Fukuoka Softbank held at Rakuten Eagles Mobile Saikyo Park Miyagi, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles win 5-2.

In the bottom of the second, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles created a good opportunity with runners on second with no outs on YG Yasuda 's doble, and Itsuki Murabayashi 's timely hit put them ahead. Then, in the bottom of the third, with Daisuke Nakashima and Rui Muneyama hitting and an error to score, Murabay sacrifice fly ashi added a run with one out bases loaded.

Starting pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa pitcher, who received support from the start, was unable to runs pitch the Hawks' strong lineup through three innings. In the top of the fourth, Yudai Yamamoto gave up a run on a sacrifice fly, but the offense added another run in the bottom of the fifth with a timely hit by Murabayashi. With two outs and bases loaded, runner scored three runs in the inning thanks to an opponent's error.

pitcher Hayakawa gave up his 11th solo home run to Hotaka Yamakawa in the top of the 7th inning but stopped the rear, and after 100 pitches in the 7th inning, he threw 5 hit 2 Walk 5 strike out 2 runs and was taken out. From the top of the 8th, he connected with Ryu Kutani pitcher and Shoma Fujihira pitcher. win Tohoku Rakuten Eagles achieved their fourth consecutive win, while pitcher Hayakawa marked his seventh win. For the batting lineup, Murabayashi is showing strong performance with 2 hit 3 RBI.

Meanwhile, the losing Fukuoka Softbank suffered their first loss of the season with Yugo Maeda pitcher pitching 4.2 innings with 103 pitches, 6 hit 2 Walk 5 strike out 5 runs (earned runs 2), ending their winning streak since the season at 12. The team failed to shine, committing 4 errors.

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

H ●Yugo Maeda-Ryo Oyama-Yusuke Ito-Tatsuto Kobayashi
E ○Takahisa Hayakawa-Ryu Kutani-S Shoma Fujihira

Text by Yui Kayama