TOKOROZAWA, Japan (Interstat) — The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and Saitama Seibu Lions played to a 12-inning tie Saturday evening, Sept. 12, 2026, at Seibu Dome. Per Nippon Professional Baseball rules, the game was declared a tie after 12 innings. Nippon-Ham scored single runs in the first, seventh and eighth innings. Seibu answered with three runs in the third. Franmil Reyes hit a solo home run for the Fighters. Taiki Narama doubled in a run, and Kotaro Kiyomiya delivered the tying run. Chihiro Sumida started for Seibu and allowed two earned runs over eight innings, striking out eight. Hiromi Itoh worked eight innings for Nippon-Ham, yielding three earned runs and 10 hits. Hibiki Shinohara, Ryosuke Moriwaki and Shunsuke Sato combined for scoreless relief for Seibu, while Mizuki Hori, Taisei Yanagawa, Reo Shibata and Ren Fukushima held Seibu scoreless out of the bullpen. Seibu outhit Nippon-Ham 13-9. Attendance was 27,562. The game took 3 hours, 49 minutes. Nippon-Ham is 71-56-3. Seibu is 73-53-4.