SENDAI, Japan (Interstat) — The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles defeated the Orix Buffaloes 3-0 on Thursday afternoon at Kleenex Stadium Miyagi. Rakuten scored once in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Ryosuke Tatsumi, then added two runs in the third on a single by Hikaru Ohta. Jose Urena earned the win, allowing four hits and no runs over 6 2/3 innings with six strikeouts. Shoma Fujihira recorded his ninth save with a scoreless ninth. Sean Hjelle took the loss for Orix. Raiku Katayama and Kento Kawase each threw two scoreless innings in relief for the Buffaloes. Rakuten outhit Orix 11-5. The game lasted 2 hours, 46 minutes before an announced crowd of 24,348. Orix fell to 23-15, while Rakuten improved to 16-21.