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Seibu 3, at Nippon-Ham 5

Saturday, April 18, 2026 · Final

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Saitama Seibu Lions

80-63-4 · L3 · #4 (1326 ELO -2)

0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 3 111

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters

81-66-3 · L3 · #2 (1357 ELO +2)

0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 80

Es Con Field Hokkaido · Kitahiroshima, Japan

Attendance: 30,951

Fighters Rally With Five-Run Sixth Inning to Defeat Lions, Earn Series Split

SAPPORO, Japan (Interstat) — A dormant offense erupted for five runs in the sixth inning, propelling the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters to a 5-3 victory over the Saitama Seibu Lions on Saturday night at Sapporo Dome, splitting their two-game series. A crowd of 30,951 watched as a masterful pitchers’ duel between Seibu’s Natsuki Takeuchi and Nippon-Ham’s Hiromi Itoh dissolved into a decisive offensive outburst by the home side in the middle innings, flipping the game on its head. For five innings, Takeuchi was in complete command. The Seibu left-hander, coming off a seven-inning, one-run win against the Chiba Lotte Marines on… Read more...

Top Statlines

Natsuki Takeuchi SEI 5+ip 6h 0er 4k
Hiromi Itoh HOK 6ip 8h 2er 4k
Shun Mizutani HOK 2/4 2rbi

Forecasting

ELO Probability HOK 68.6%

Spread HOK -1.5

Projected Score HOK 4 SEI 3

Over/Under 6.5 (Over)