NPB

Rakuten 6, at SoftBank 4

Saturday, August 15, 2026 · Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R HE

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

58-84-1 · W1 · #7 (1281 ELO +4)

2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 6 81

Fukuoka Softbank Hawks

98-50-3 · W7 · #1 (1455 ELO -4)

1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 110

Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome · Fukuoka, Japan

Attendance: 39,894

Hayakawa throws seven strong innings as Golden Eagles top Hawks

FUKUOKA (Interstat) — Rui Muneyama and Carson McCusker homered as the Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the SoftBank Hawks 6-4 on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, at Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome. Takahisa Hayakawa threw seven strong innings to improve to 6-5, allowing two earned runs on six hits while striking out five. Shoma Fujihira tossed a scoreless ninth for his 23rd save. Rakuten built an early lead on Muneyama’s two-run shot in the first. McCusker added a two-run homer in the fourth, Daisuke Nakashima went deep in the fifth and Hikaru Ohta drove in a run in the seventh. SoftBank answered with Yuki… Read more...

Top Statlines

Takahisa Hayakawa RAK 7ip 6h 2er 5k
Shoma Fujihira RAK 1ip 1h 0er
Yuki Yanagita SOF 3/4 1hr 1rbi

Forecasting

ELO Probability SOF 73.4%

Spread RAK -1.5

Projected Score SOF 6 RAK 2

Over/Under 7.5 (Over)