Overview

• Hanshin beat DeNA 5–3 at Koshien on a 10th‑inning two‑run homer by Morishita after Teruaki Sato tied the game in the eighth.
• With the win, Hanshin leads the Climax Series final stage 2–0 and needs one more victory to clinch a Japan Series berth.
• Fukuoka SoftBank topped Nippon-Ham 3–0 as Yuki Yanagita hit an eighth‑inning three‑run homer, moving the Hawks within one win of the Japan Series.
• Aichi Prefectural Police said they arrested seven alleged account brokers, including Yusuke Nishikawa, on suspicion of fraud and violating the law on preventing criminal proceeds transfers.
• Investigators believe the group obtained about 950 bank accounts from “dark job” recruits from late February and sold them to domestic and overseas special‑fraud networks, and the U.S. Senate separately failed for the 10th time to advance a stopgap budget, keeping parts of the federal government closed.