You'll really be like '100 losses', after scoring the first run in the first inning, hitting 18 consecutive batters, humiliating the last-place Seibu for the fourth time in a row

Aug 14, 2024

Seibu scored the first point in the first inning against No. 1 Softbank on the 13th, but lost 1-6. In the first inning, leadoff hitter Donosaki walked to get on base, and Genda hit a hit to create a scoring chance and scored one run with a sacrifice hit. However, 18 hitters were later forced to make consecutive mistakes. Photo capture = Seibu Lions SNS

Seibu lost to Softbank 1-6 on the 13th and recorded its fourth eight consecutive losses this season. Photo capture = Seibu Lions SNS

I keep losing.

The Seibu Lions, the most winning team in the Pacific League, lost again. On the 13th, the team lost to the No. 1 Softbank Hawks 1-6. All of the last eight games have been lost. This defeat once again put me in a yoke of humiliation. He became the first team in the Pacific League to lose eight consecutive games four times in a season. He has won eight consecutive games every month since May.

He had 29 wins, two draws and 72 losses in 103 games until the 13th, with a winning rate of 287 percent. After the 30% victory rate collapsed last week, it falls without knowing the bottom. It falls to the bottom from the beginning and cannot rebound. In May, he made a winning move to replace the coach, but the winning rate went down further.

He has lost 13 games (one win) in his last 14 games. If he loses 28 games in the remaining 40 games, he will be the first Japanese professional baseball team to lose 100 games in a season. At the current pace, 100 losses will become a reality.

Cuban softbank starting pitcher Livan Moinello. He is a left-hander who has pitched in the bullpen for seven years and converted to a starter this year. He pitched in five Seibu games before the game, winning three games and posting a 0.43 ERA.

Seibu's batters scored the first run against the extreme pitcher.

In the first inning, leadoff hitter Shuta Donosaki walked. No. 2 Genda Sosuke hit a left-handed hit to create a chance for the first and third bases with no outs. With one out and runners on the first and third bases, No. 4 Takayoshi Yamamura brought the third baseman home with a sacrifice hit. 1-0.

But that was it.

Seibu's batting lineup retired 18 batters in a row with two outs in the first inning. The much-anticipated foreign hitter was also silent. Tasinger Brandon, who joined the Rakuten Eagles for the first time in more than four months since the game on March 31, took the third batter and went 0-for-4 with no hits. He struck out three.

As of the 13th, his team's batting average is .230. It is overwhelmingly last among the 12 teams in both leagues. No team has a .202 level record. No. 1 SoftBank is close to

Softbank left-hander Moinello pitched a shutout against Seibu in nine innings on the 13th. It was the first shutout victory in the eighth year of Japanese professional baseball. Photo capture = Softbank Hawks SNS

There is a difference in this.

Moello overwhelmed the weakest Seibu lineup. He threw 112 pitches until the ninth inning, giving up two hits and allowing one run. In his eighth year in Japanese professional baseball, he won his first shutout against Seibu.

Seibu starter Yutaro Watanabe pitched a scoreless game and hit a tiebreaking one-run home run by leadoff hitter Kensuke Kondo in the fourth inning. SoftBank scored five hits in the sixth inning to add three more runs. The flow has completely turned over to SoftBank.

Seibu lost all 14 games against the Chiba Lotte Marines this season.

Before Softbank's rise, Seibu was the Pacific League's dominant player. He topped the Pacific League 23 times and lifted the Japan Series trophy 13 times. He moved away from the top after two consecutive league defeats in 2018-2019.

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