[Pacific League CS] Softbank wins with a walk-off-off win. With a 2-0 record and a 100% success rate, Hotaka Yamakawa scored the winning run! “I thought it was a grounder to third base.”
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2025.10.15(水) 21:25
◆2025 Persol Climax Series Pacific Final Stage Game 1: Softbank 2x-Nippon-Ham = 10 innings extra inning = (15th, Mizuho PayPay Dome)
Softbank took the first win. With the bases bases loaded one out in the 10th extra inning, Yamakawa hit walk-off. Including the advantage, the team’s record was 2-0.
Starting pitcher Moinelo pitched seven runs innings. He held on despite allowing the leadoff hitter to reach base four times through the fifth inning. Tatsuya held the team scoreless through the sixth inning, but in the seventh inning, Nomura, the leadoff batter, hit a solo home run over the left field wall right after Tanaka, the second pitcher, took the mound. In the eighth inning, Matsumoto Yutaka gave up a solo home run to Reyes to tie the game, but the team ultimately won the game.
Yamakawa was credited with the hit, but it was a slow hit, bouncing high and flying over third baseman ‘s head. In his hero interview, he blushed and said, “I thought it was going to be a grounder to third base. I thought, ‘Oh no, it’s over,’ but… I guess these things happen.”
０４年以降の日本シリーズ進出をかけたプレーオフ、ＣＳでは、アドバンテージを含めて２勝０敗とした例が過去２６度あり、うち２５チームが突破。パ・リーグではソフトバンクの５度を含めた全１５チームが制しており、突破率は１００％だ。
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