The CS of this season will not have the first stage (1S). Normally lower teams use the ace class in 1S, but this time it can be entered from scratch. Softbank has the advantage of a win, but Lotte has the advantage of being able to compete with three “killers” of Mima, Futaki and Chen Wayne.

Mima has 5 wins and 1 loss against Softbank this season. Futaki has won seven straight wins with this card since last season and has been earning seven straight wins at PayPay Dome since mid-2017. Chen Wayne, who joined in September, has only two matches, but remains steady with one point of self-liability of 4 (antitrust rate 2.57) in 14 times. There is a good chance that both will score low.

In tight spaces, watch out for inadvertent base hits, but Lotte’s pitchers haven’t allowed Yanagida to hit a shot in 15 games since September. Futaki has turned Kurihara into a duck with 12 hits and no hits this season.

The key to reaching the line is likely to be Kiyota, a man who knows “Shimokatsugami” who became the best in Japan from third place in the official game 10 years ago. In 10 years of newcomer, it came from Wada and Morifuku (Softbank) in CS. In 2016 CS, he made a strong impression in decisive short-term battles, especially against Softbank, such as hitting the lead batter’s home base for two straight games from Chiga and Bandenhark (same thing). Against Softbank this season, the hit rate is 30% 7 minutes 8 ㎘ (37 hits 14 hits).

In terms of the team’s hitting results, he has four dead balls and a base rate that beats Softbank. I want to land the most sacrifice shots in the league and give him a distinctive score.