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Nippon-Ham 13, at Orix 7

Sunday, August 16, 2026 · Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R HE

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters

81-66-3 · L3 · #2 (1357 ELO +3)

0 2 0 3 1 1 2 4 0 13 150

Orix Buffaloes

65-76-2 · L5 · #8 (1276 ELO -3)

0 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 7 80

Osaka Dome · Osaka, Japan

Attendance: 35,317

Fighters erupt for 13 runs in win over Buffaloes

OSAKA (Interstat) — Kohei Arihara pitched six strong innings and the Nippon-Ham Fighters pounded out 15 hits to beat the Orix Buffaloes 13-7 on Sunday. Arihara allowed two earned runs on four hits with one strikeout to improve to 5-6. Tatsuki Mizuno drove in three runs on two hits, Rodolfo Castro homered and drove in two, and Yuma Imagawa added a pinch-hit two-run homer for Nippon-Ham, which improved to 62-49. The Fighters built an early lead with two runs in the second, three in the fourth and one each in the fifth, sixth and seventh before adding four in the… Read more...

Top Statlines

Ryoto Kita ORX 2/4 2hr 4rbi
Kohei Arihara HOK 6ip 4h 2er 1k
Tatsuki Mizuno HOK 2/4 3rbi

Forecasting

ELO Probability HOK 56.2%

Spread ORX +1.5

Projected Score ORX 5 HOK 3

Over/Under 6.5 (Over)