Howard won his 5th win with 2 hit no runs in 6.1 innings, and the batting line also scored 12 hit 7 runs Tohoku Rakuten won comfortably

Pacific League Insight

2025.9.23(火) 17:47

On September 23rd, the 25th game between Hokkaido Nippon-Ham and Tohoku Rakuten was held in ES CON FIELD, and Tohoku Rakuten won 7-0.

Tohoku Rakuten succeeded in taking the lead in the first inning with Fumiya Kurokawa player’s No. 4 and 2 runs from 3rd base with 1 out. In the top of the second inning, the lead Rui Muneyama player scored hit and 2 Walk with one out and bases loaded, and added one run between infield grounders. Furthermore, in the top of the fifth, when they got a good opportunity with one out and bases loaded, the score was 4-0 with a sacrifice fly by pinch hitter Franco. In the top of the 6th inning, he added one run with a push Walk. In the top of the 8th inning, Hideto Asamura player jumped out with two runs in the ninth to push the score to 7 runs.

On the other hand, starter Howard pitcher got off to a great start, allowing not a single runner until the third inning. In the bottom of the 4th inning, he was hit by the first hit of the day from one out, but refused to follow. In the bottom of the 5th and 6th innings, he closer to retire with three outs, but in the bottom of the 7th inning, he threw 3 pitches against Yuya Gunji players from 1st base with 1 out and left the mound due to an accident. Sora Suzuki pitcher, who was in second place, got through with no runs even though he gave Walk.

In the bottom of the eighth, Chia-Hao Sung pitcher connected with a scoreless runs, and in the bottom of the ninth, Masahiro Ehara pitcher overcame 1st and 2nd base with 1 out, and the game ended 7-0. Tohoku Rakuten, which win, won its fifth win with Howard pitcher pitching 6.1 innings, 94 pitches, 2 hit 1 Walk 5 strike out runs. The batting line functioned with a total of 12 hit and 7 runs, including 4 hit Kurokawa hitting the first Home Run.

In Hokkaido Nippon-Ham, starter Yi-Lei Sun pitcher was unable to create a game with 2 innings of 56 pitches, 3 hit 2 Walk 3 strike out 3 runs. The batting line also scored 2 hit by Kazunari Ishii players, but they did not perform well with a total of 3 hit scoreless and suffered consecutive losses.
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Raku Howard -Sora Suzuki-Chia-Hao Sung-Masahiro Ehara
Sun Yi-Lei Sun-Shoma Kanemura-Nao Miyanishi-Taisho Tamai-Ruei-Yang Gu Lin-Toshihiro Sugiura

Written by Rihoko Niwa

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