The Orix Buffaloes will play against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in their very own Kyocera Dome for the NPB matchup. Orix has an overall season record of 47-47 and sits in fifth place in the Pacific League standings. They come into this game on the back of a 5-0 win against the SoftBank. Nakagawa had two RBI’s while Sugimoto, Wakatsuki and Fukuda had one each. Yamamoto had picked up 9 strikeouts while Honda had two strikeouts.
On the other hand, SoftBank has an overall season record of 46-39 and sits on top of the Pacific League standings. They come into this game on the back of a 5-0 loss against the Orix Buffaloes. They were unable to find a single RBI. From the pitching department, Ishikawa picked up five strikeouts, Kasaya picked up three and Shiino had one strikeout.
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Orix | SoftBank |
Ryo Nishimura | Tatsuru Yanagimachi |
Yuma Mune | Isami Nomura |
Keita Nakagawa | Yuki Yanagita |
Masataka Yoshida | Kenta Tanigawara |
Yutaro Sugimoto | Alfredo Despaigne |
Joe McCarthy | Taisei Makihara |
Kotaro Kurebayashi | Kenta Imamiya |
Kenya Wakatsuki | Nobuhiro Matsuda |
Koji Oshiro | Tomoki Takata |
The match between the Orix Buffaloes and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks will take place at Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka, Japan on Saturday, July 24 at 1:00 PM (Japan Time).
The match between the Orix Buffaloes and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks will be telecast live on Fuji TV. You can also log in to npb.jp and follow the game from any corner of the world.
Country | Channel | Date and Time |
Japan | Fuji TV | July 24 (1:00 PM) |