The Hanshin Tigers won their eleventh-straight game on September 14, capping off their longest win streak of the season.

Yokota was a former teammate of several current players, including Suguru Iwazaki, who carried his uniform on the field and held it during the pennant celebration.

[3] League winners for the first time since 2005, the Tigers advanced directly to the CL Climax Series' final stage where they played the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

With the help of the one-win advantage the winners of the pennant receive, Hanshin swept the Carp in three games to advance to the Japan Series for the first time since 2014.

[4] Six days after the Tigers clinched their title, the Orix Buffaloes secured their third-straight and 15th overall Pacific League (PL) pennant.

The stadiums' respective cities, Nishinomiya and Osaka, both fall within Japan's Kansai region and are just over twenty minutes apart via train.

[25] The next inning, Hanshin struck again, first when Yusuke Oyama drew a leadoff walk and eventually scored on a RBI single by Kinami.

The next batter, Seishirō Sakamoto, immediately hit a double to drive in Kinami and force Orix to make a pitching change.

[26] Yamamoto left the game after 5+2⁄3 innings, allowing ten hits and giving up seven runs for the first time, a career worst.

Marwin González entered the game as a pinch hitter with the bases loaded for Orix in the seventh inning and hit a three run double.

In the fifth inning, the first two Orix batters reached base and then Taishi Hirooka gave the Buffaloes the least when he hit a ground out to shortstop to score Kotaro Kurebayashi.

[34] The Tigers attempted to mount a comeback in the seventh inning against Orix's relief pitchers when they loaded the bases on two hits and a walk.

[35] The Buffaloes' brought in closer Yoshihisa Hirano to pitch a scoreless ninth inning to earn the save and preserve the win.

[37] The Tigers took an early lead in the first inning when Koji Chikamoto scored the first run of the game on an RBI double by Shota Morishita.

[37] In the seventh inning, an error by Hanshin third baseman Teruaki Sato and a pinch-hit single by Leandro Cedeno gave Orix runners on first and second base.

Keita Nakagawa moved the runners ahead with a sacrifice bunt and Yuma Mune hit a two-run RBI single to score both and tie the game 3–3.

However, Kento Itohara fielded the ball and threw it to Tigers catcher Seishiro Sakamoto to tag the runner out at home plate.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Hanshin's Chikamoto walked and then made it to third base on two wild pitches thrown by Buffaloes reliever Jacob Waguespack against Nakano.

[38] Mune then came around to score on a ground ball by Tomoya Mori that was misplayed by both Takumu Nakano and Shota Morishita on the same play to give Orix a 2–0 lead.

Koji Chikamoto drove in the Tigers' first run with an RBI single and Nakano sacrifice bunted to advance the two baserunners to second and third.

A two-run triple by Seishiro Sakamoto capped off a six-run eighth inning for Hanshin, enough to give them the Game 5 win.

He set a record for strikeouts in a Japan Series game, previously shared by Kimiyasu Kudo and Yu Darvish at 13.

Orix responded in the bottom half of the inning with a Marwin González single to lead off, followed by Yutaro Sugimoto's ground-rule double fly ball that struck the Kyocera Dome's ceiling.

Kenya Wakatsuki then tied the game with a one-out single to right, and Keita Nakagawa gave the Buffaloes a 2–1 with a sacrifice fly.

Though they would prove to be unneeded, Kotaro Kurebayashi's two-run home run in the fifth inning and Yuma Tongu's solo home run in the eighth pushed the final score to 5–1 to give Yamamoto his first Japan Series win, and what would inevitably be his last NPB win before being posted to the Los Angeles Dodgers following the series.

[43] While the game was played in the Kyocera Dome, Hanshin held a live watch party in Koshien Stadium attended by 12,424 fans.

The act is the origin of the Curse of the Colonel, a superstition that is believed by some to be responsible for Hanshin's struggles to win a Japan Series ever since.

Yamamoto's posting and eventual signing with MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers meant the Buffaloes lost the league's best pitcher.