Pacific League Softbank 3-1 Nippon-Ham (11th, Mizuho PayPay Dome)
Nippon-Ham lost to the leading Softbank, widening the gap to four games. The team was trailing by one game in the three-game series, but suffered a painful three-game losing streak. This was their seventh straight loss against Softbank Hawks on the road, the first time since 2020 that they have lost seven games in a row. Their lead has now dropped to 19 games.
In the first inning, Mannami hit his 18th solo home run to take the lead, but the batting line was silent after that. Yi-Lei Sun Yi-lei, making his first professional start, gave up five hit and two runs through the fourth inning, failing to control the game. With the score at 1-2 in the seventh inning, Tamai, the fourth pitcher, allowed a timely single to pinch hitter Akira Nakamura to left field, allowing the third run.
Before the game on the 10th, Shinjo said, “I thought (Softbank is) not very good at the new pitcher. The rest is just a sense of anticipation,” he said, and he gave the second-year 20-year-old Yi-Lei Sun the start. Go Matsumoto was used at No. 4 for the first time in two years, since May 2011, but was unsuccessful.
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