On 16 April, the second round match between Fukuoka Softbank and Tohoku Rakuten was played in MIZUHO PayPay Dome, where Tohoku Rakuten win 6-2.

Tohoku Rakuten took the lead in the top of the third inning with Rui Muneyama 's first professional home run. Hiroto Kobukata and Toshiki Abe hit put runners on first and third with one out, and with two outs, back-to-back RBI singles by Daichi Suzuki and Franco added two more runs. In the top of the fourth, Kengo Horiuchi loaded the bases with triple and scored on an error. With one out and the bases loaded, Ofukada hit an RBI single to score the fifth run of the game.

Starter Ryota Takinaka pitcher loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the third inning on a Akira Kawase​ ​doble Keita Yamamoto One runs between infield grounders of the players. The rest of the inning also carried runner, but he shut down the key spots and gave up no runs, giving up mound in five innings of 4 hit 2 Hit by Pitch 2 strike out 1 runs on 100 pitches.

​Ren Kajiya pitcher loaded the bases with one runs in the bottom of the seventh, but with two outs and two on in the top of the eighth, Ofukada's RBI single from third base brought the score back to 6-2. Shoma Fujihira pitcher in the bottom of the eighth and Ryuta Konno in the bottom of the ninth pitcher tied the game with no runs and the game was over. pitcher Takinaka scored his first win in his first start of the season. In the batting lineup, Ofukada scored 3 hit 2 RBI and Suzuki 4 hit 1 RBI to win the game with 13 hit 6 runs.

The loss was Fukuoka Softbank 's first loss by starter Naoyuki Uwasawa pitcher in 3.1 innings hit 2 Walk 7 strike out 5 runs (earned runs 3). The offense reached inning runner every time until the seventh inning, but only scored two runs, snapping a five-game winning streak and a losing streak.

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Raku ○ Ryota Takinaka-Masahiro Ehara-Ren Kajiya-Shoma Fujihira-Ryuta Konno
So ● Naoyuki Uwasawa-Ryo Oyama-Yuki Tsumori-Shunsuke Iwai

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