The Yomiuri Giants' batters were painstakingly trying to break through Lin Guanglai's defense, but their first round of offense didn't have any effect.
By the end of the first three innings, Lin Guanglai faced a total of 10 batters, struck out six times, walked twice, and allowed zero hits, almost single-handedly shutting down the Yomiuri Giants' luxurious 1.5 billion yen lineup. Even Sakamoto Yuuto and Abe Shinjiro, renowned hitters in the Nihon Professional Baseball, couldn't gain even a tiny advantage against him.
As the home crowd in the Tokyo Dome anticipated their batters to regain control in the subsequent rounds and dampen Lin Guanglai's arrogant spirit, the visiting SoftBank Team opened the scoring first.
