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Nippon-Ham 4, at SoftBank 5

Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R HE

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters

81-66-3 · L3 · #2 (1357 ELO -2)

0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 81

Fukuoka Softbank Hawks

94-50-3 · W3 · #1 (1446 ELO +2)

1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 111

Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome · Fukuoka, Japan

Attendance: 39,894

Uwasawa, Kurihara power Hawks past Fighters in night game

FUKUOKA (Interstat) — Naoyuki Uwasawa pitched six innings and the SoftBank Hawks held on to beat the visiting Nippon-Ham Fighters 5-4 on Wednesday night, Sept. 9, 2026, at Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome. Uwasawa allowed three earned runs on five hits with eight strikeouts. Kazuki Sugiyama earned his 29th save with a scoreless ninth, striking out two. Ryoya Kurihara homered and drove in two runs for SoftBank, while Kensuke Kondoh went 2 for 5 with a home run and one RBI. Kota Tatsu took the loss for Nippon-Ham. Nippon-Ham scored twice in the first inning and added single runs in the second… Read more...

Top Statlines

Naoyuki Uwasawa SOF 6ip 5h 3er 8k
Kazuki Sugiyama SOF 1ip 2h 0er 2k
Kensuke Kondoh SOF 2/5 1hr 1rbi

Forecasting

ELO Probability SOF 59.7%

Projected Score HOK 7 SOF 4