On September 26th, in the farm team regular season between Orix Buffaloes and Hiroshima, the 25th game of the series, held at Satoyaku The Buffaloes Stadium in Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Orix Buffaloes lost 0-4.

Orix Buffaloes 's starting pitcher, Taiga Uehara, held the opposing team runs through the first five innings, allowing only four hit. However, in the top of the sixth inning, he gave up a solo home run to Ramirez, his seventh of the season, giving the opposing team the lead. He then walked a batter and gave up another hit, putting runners on Walk hit with two outs, but closer the next batter to fly out to center field. He left the game after six innings, having thrown 96 pitches, allowing seven hit one Walk strike out giving up one runs.

In the top of the 8th inning, pitcher Matthew gave runs, and in the top of the 9th inning, pitcher Shota Abe also gave up a run, making the score 4-0. The offense had runner in Shikira Nogami position in the bottom of the 5th inning with hits from Yosuke Kubota and Shiyo Sho Gibo, and in the bottom of the 6th inning with consecutive hits Haruto Mikata Mikata, but failed to score. In the later innings, from the 7th inning onwards, they were limited to just one hit and suffered shutout game loss with 6 hit. Gibo, however, recorded two hit.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Hiroshima 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 4
Orix 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Hiroshima Atsuya Horie-○Kaito Takeshita-Takehisa Masuda-Mirai Sugihara-Tatsuya Matsumoto
Orix ●Taiga Uehara-Matthew-Shota Abe

Text by Aoi Nishijima

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