NPB

Rakuten 2, at Lotte 3

Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R HE

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

58-84-1 · W1 · #7 (1281 ELO -2)

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 90

Chiba Lotte Marines

64-77-3 · L2 · #9 (1273 ELO +2)

0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 60

ZOZO Marine Stadium

Attendance: 23,206

Yamaguchi’s two homers, Ojima’s pitching lift Marines past Golden Eagles

CHIBA (Interstat) — Kazuya Ojima pitched seven strong innings and Koki Yamaguchi homered twice, helping the Lotte Marines beat the visiting Rakuten Golden Eagles 3-2 on Sunday evening at ZOZO Marine Stadium. The game drew 23,206 and took 2 hours, 47 minutes. Lotte improved to 64-75-3, while Rakuten fell to 57-84-1. Rakuten opened the scoring in the first. Daisuke Nakashima walked with no outs, Rui Muneyama doubled to left-center, and Itsuki Murabayashi lifted a sacrifice fly to right that brought home Nakashima. Ojima limited the damage by retiring Yuma Yasuda on a flyout and striking out Carson McCusker. The Golden… Read more...

Top Statlines

Koki Yamaguchi CLM 2/4 2hr 3rbi
Kazuya Ojima CLM 7ip 6h 1er 2bb 5k
Takahisa Hayakawa RAK 6ip 5h 3er 1bb 6k

Forecasting

ELO Probability RAK 52.6%

Projected Score RAK 7 CLM 4