Major League Baseball Angels' Shohei Ohtani started the game against Masanao Yoshida's Red Sox as a two-out pitcher, allowing no hits and one run in two innings. As a batter, he had two hits and scored runs to help the team win.

The match between Otani and Yoshida attracted a lot of attention, and the start of the match was delayed by about one hour due to rain, and although the match started once, the rain became stronger again, and this time it was interrupted for one and a half hours.