Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Rakuten akabhadhara muAmerica Marty Brown kuti atsive Nomura semutungamiriri. Kunyange zvazvo Brown akanga asayina chibvumirano chemakore maviri, akasiyiwa gore rakatevera pashure pokunge maEagles apedza mwaka wa2010 panzvimbo yekupedzisira. Kirabhu yacho yakatarira kuna Senichi Hoshino anotevera kuchinja chikwata chacho. Kazuo Matsui naAkinori Iwamura, vose vari kudzoka kubva pakutamba muMajor League Baseball (MLB), vakawedzerwawo kune roster. Teppei Tsuchiya akasarudzwawo semutungamiriri wekutanga wechikwata. Musi waMarch 11, 2011, vhiki mbiri mutambo wokutanga wemwaka usati watanga, nharaunda yeTōhoku yakarohwa ne
kudengenyeka kukuru zvikurusa munhau yenyika. Kudengenyeka kwacho netsunami yakatevera yakaparadza nharaunda yacho, kubatanidza musha weEagles weSendai. Sezvo mutambo wokutanga wemwaka wakachinjirwa kuna April 12, chikwata chacho chakaramba chichidzidzira munharaunda yeKansai pamusana pemigumisiro yechiitiko cheSendai. Mukuwedzera pakuronga kweRakuten zviitiko zvekuunganidza mari, zvikwata zvose gumi nezviviri zvakatamba mitambo yerudo kubatsira kuunganidza mari yekubatsira kudengenyeka kwenyika. Vakagamuchira mutambo wavo wekutanga "wekumba" kuKoshien Stadium apo basa rekudzorera kuKleenex Stadium rakaenderera mberi. Baseball yakadzokera kuSendai musi waApril 12, apo maEagles akatamba mutambo wavo wokutanga pamusha wavo. Uyezve, mutambo wekupedzisira we2011 All-Star Series wakachinjwa kubva kuTokyo Dome kuenda kuKleenex Stadium, kechipiri maEagles achigamuchira chiitiko ichi kubvira 2007. Rakuten akapedza mwaka wa2011 ari wechishanu uye zvakare akarasikirwa nemitambo. Zvisinei, mukuwedzera pakukunda Golden Glove uye Best Nine mubairo, Tanaka akatumidzwawo PL MVP yemwedzi katatu mumwaka wemwaka, wekutanga muPacific League.