The Open Sen starts

Tigers first Open Sen game against their old kantoku Okada saw Buffaloes blown out of the water. The score was 11-1 to Tigers. Futagami started for Tigers and pitched 4 solid innings giving up 1 run. Hirano started for Buffaloes and gave up a run in his first innings and then six in his third. He was replaced by Nakayama who gave up runs as Tigers took 17 hits off the Buffaloes pitchers. Murton, Yamato, Toritani, Sakurai and Kanoh all hit home runs. Arai had three hits and Sekimoto hit two two base hits, one of which drove in a runner. The pitching was solid and it was nice to see Futagami do so well.