page_title: 2019 Pacific League Climax Series
section_title: Game 3
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 Pacific League Climax Series / First Stage / Game 3
caption_attribution_description: English: Seiichi Uchikawa, outfielder of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, at Fukuoka Dome. 日本語: 福岡ソフトバンクホークス外野手の内川聖一。福岡ドームにて。
context_page_description: The 2019 Pacific League Climax Series was a post-season Climax Series playoff consisting of two consecutive series that determined which of the three teams who finished in the top three during the 2019 regular season would represent the Pacific League in the Japan Series. The First Stage was a best-of-three series played between the second-place hosts Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and the third-place Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. The series was played between October 5 to 7. The Hawks defeated the Eagles 2–1 and advanced to the Final Stage to face the pennant-winning Saitama Seibu Lions.
  The Final Stage was a best-of-six series hosted by the Lions. Having won the regular season, Seibu was awarded a one-win advantage over the Hawks. The series was played between October 9 to 13. SoftBank swept Seibu 4–1 in four games to advance to the 2019 Japan Series, where they competed against the 2019 Central League Climax Series winner, the Yomiuri Giants.
context_section_description: Unlike the previous two games in the series, scoring in Game 3 didn't start for either team until the fourth inning. Eagles' and Hawks' starting pitchers Takayuki Kishi and Rei Takahashi, respectively, kept both teams scoreless through the first three innings. Rakuten's Asamura scored the first run of the game with a solo home run in the top of the fourth. He homered in all three games and hit four home runs in total in the series. Kishi had not allowed a hit until giving up back-to-back singles to Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial in the bottom of the inning. Seiichi Uchikawa then tied the game by driving in a run. The tie continued until the seventh inning, when Uchikawa homered off of Rakuten reliever Sung Chia-hao to give the Hawks the lead. The Hawks couldn't breakthrough in the remaining innings with SoftBank reliever Liván Moinelo and closer Yuito Mori keeping them scoreless to allow the Hawks to win and advance to the Final Stage of the Climax Series.
caption: Seiichi Uchikawa drove in all of the Hawks' runs in Game 3.
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