On 10 May, Saitama Seibu and Chiba Lotte played in Belluna Dome and Saitama Seibu won the sixth round match 7-0. They extended their winning streak to three.

Saitama Seibu 's starter, Tatsuya Imai pitcher, led off the first inning with Kyota Fujiwara Despite being hit by hit players, he started the game with three players on the line, including two in a row struck out. From the third inning, he showed a steady pitch, including three consecutive inning retirements. He allowed his first hit in four inning in the top of the sixth, but settled down and retired the side again in the top of the seventh. He exited seven innings after 114 pitches hit 3 Hit by Pitch 10 strike out no runs.

In the bottom of the third inning, Yuto Koga, Manaya Nishikawa and Natsuo Takizawa hit back-to-back singles to put the game on a bases loaded with no outs, and Nevin scored the go-ahead run with one out on a triple bases loaded. In the bottom of the seventh, Sosuke Genda and Koga loaded the bases with Walk, and with two outs and one out, Takizawa hit an RBI single from second base to add one more run.

In the top of the eighth, Haruto Yamada pitcher closer three hitter, and in the bottom of the eighth, Takeya Nakamura 's hit and two Walk doubles put the game up 7-0 on Koga's two-run RBI single with two bases loaded outs. Ichiro Tamura pitcher closed out the game in the top of the ninth inning to end the game 7-0.

Saitama Seibu won the win, and pitcher Imai won his fourth match. He struck out struck out each time and became the first player to reach double-digit strike out in two consecutive games. Nevin, who led off the inning with a bases loaded single, Takizawa, who had his first RBI single of the season, and Koga, who had an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth, each recorded two hit.

On the other hand, Chiba Lotte regretted that starter Yuji Nishino pitcher was hit in the first inning by 6 hit 1 Walk 3 strike out 4 runs on 86 pitches in 6 innings, saying, "I'm disappointed with that one shot (in the bottom of the third)." There were also a total of three relief runs. The offense was scattered in 5 hit scoreless innings and struggled with pitcher opponents, losing shutout game for the second straight game.

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B. Yuji Nishino-Hirokazu Sawamura-Atsuya Hirohata
West: Tatsuya Imai-Haruto Yamada-Ichiro Tamura

Text by Haruka Sonoda

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