{"id":656683,"date":"2026-04-01T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:45:19","slug":"seibu-lions-winning-streak-ends-at-2-kosei-takahashi-fails-to-get-his-first-win-of-the-season-and-taiga-kojima-ties-the-npb-worst-record-with-3-passed-balls-in-one-game-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656683\/","title":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Winning streak ends at 2&#8230; Kosei Takahashi fails to get his first win of the season, and Taiga Kojima ties the NPB worst record with 3 passed balls in one game | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Seibu Lions] Winning streak ends at 2&#8230; Kosei Takahashi fails to get his first win of the season, and Taiga Kojima ties the NPB worst record with 3 passed balls in one game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    April 1, 2026 20:51<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260401-OHT1I51629-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"925\" alt=\"In the sixth inning with no outs, Seibu Lions Lions players gather around mound Kosei Takahashi (center) after he gave up the first run (Photo by Miyoko Tonsho).\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\uff16\u56de\u7121\u6b7b\u3001\u5148\u5236\u70b9\u3092\u8a31\u3057\u305f\u30de\u30a6\u30f3\u30c9\u306e\u9ad8\u6a4b\u5149\u6210\uff08\u4e2d\u592e\uff09\u306b\u96c6\u307e\u308b\u897f\u6b66\u30ca\u30a4\u30f3\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u9813\u6240\u3000\u7f8e\u4ee3\u5b50\uff09\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u25c6 Pacific League Seibu Lions 0-4 Orix Buffaloes (August 1st, Belluna Dome)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Seibu Lions &#8216;s winning streak came to an end at two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Starter Kosei Takahashi pitcher did not make his first win of the season with 5 hit 4 runs (0 earned) in 6 innings. He continued to runs pitch no runner until the 5th inning, but in the 6th inning, when he let Mune walk in the lead with a Walk, he lost 4 runs at once due to mistakes by his teammates, such as two catches by Dora 1 and Kojima who formed a battery, and Hasegawa&#8217;s fielder\u2019s choice who played as &#8220;2nd and 1st base&#8221; while registering as a outfielder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">The offense was silenced by the opposing starting pitcher, Espinoza, and suffered shutout game loss with only five hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Winning streak ends at 2&#8230; Kosei Takahashi fails to get his first win of the season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-656683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","10":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116329758096692726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}