SENDAI (Interstat) — Kenta Maeda struck out 10 over six innings, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the visiting SoftBank Hawks 3-1 on Monday evening at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi. Maeda allowed one earned run on six hits and one walk to improve to 6-4. Shoma Fujihira worked a perfect ninth for his 30th save. Taiga Kamichatani took the loss, yielding two earned runs in three innings and falling to 8-3. Rakuten built its lead with single runs in the first, second and fifth. Carson McCusker drew a bases-loaded walk in the first, Rui Muneyama added a sacrifice fly in the second and Ryosuke Tatsumi doubled home a run in the fifth. SoftBank scored in the fifth when Ukyo Shuto grounded out with a runner on third. The Hawks had seven hits, while Rakuten finished with six and grounded into two double plays. Attendance was 24,765, and the game took 3 hours, 4 minutes. SoftBank is 91-50-3. Rakuten is 58-84-1. Jo-Hsi Hsu allowed one earned run in two innings of relief for SoftBank, while Naoto Nishiguchi and Ryu Kutani each struck out three in scoreless relief for Rakuten.