Overview

• Tanaka worked six innings of four-hit, two-run ball at Tokyo Dome to earn his third win of the season and his first in the venue since joining the Giants.
• He became the fourth pitcher to record 200 wins across NPB and MLB, joining Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda and Yu Darvish.
• Abe started catcher Seiji Kobayashi and deployed closer Alberto Baldonado Martínez across innings to secure the win, then said Tanaka will be used in the Climax Series.
• Lotte’s Manabu Mima opened his announced retirement game against former club Rakuten, striking out Hideto Asamura before leaving early with elbow pain and receiving a joint postgame sendoff.
• Rakuten rallied past Lotte 2–1 at ZOZO Marine to halt a six-game slide, with Yuki Murabayashi’s tying double and Yuki Kurokawa’s go-ahead single in the eighth; starter Takayuki Kishi allowed one run over six, and reliever Tai earned his first win.