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Lions outclass Eagles, continue PL charge
The days of headshaking loses have transformed into hand-clapping, high-five-slapping winning party nights for the Seibu Lions.
Hideto Asamura had three hits -- including a two-run single in a five-run sixth -- and three RBIs as the Lions mauled the Rakuten Eagles for a 6-2 win on Sunday at Seibu Dome.
The Lions, who moved percentage points above Nippon Ham for first place in the Pacific League because of front-running Nippon Ham's loss, have been snacking on opponents the since the All-Star break, going 13-4-3 since the midsummer classics.
Despite playing without All-Star Hiroyuki Nakajima, the Lions banged out 14 hits and beat up on Masahiro Tanaka (6-4), who reached 1,000 strikeouts when he fanned Takumi Kuriyama in the fifth inning.
Ken Togame (3-0) worked three innings of one-run relief for the win.
It was the last day for Seibu in the 100-year anniversary uniforms, designed by a Tokyo junior high school student named Tomoya Nojima [Thank goodness. I don’t care how young and cute the kid is, those things look like Smurfs after a Martian-eating contest].
HAWKS 10, BUFFALOES 8
Yuya Hasegawa had four hits, including his second homer, and two RBIs, and Seiichi Uchikawa had three hits and two RBIs as SoftBank outslugged host Orix.
The 4-hour, 17-minute struggle was the longest game in Japan this year.
MARINES 2, FIGHTERS 1
Shunichi Nemoto tripled in the game's first run in the seventh and scored on Katsuya Kakunaka's single as Lotte topped Nippon Ham to avoid a Sapporo Dome sweep.
GIANTS 4, CARP 3
Shinnosuke Abe blasted his sixth career walk-off homer to open the ninth inning as host Yomiuri swept Hiroshima and stretched its CL lead to 5.5 games.
The Carp made two errors and a couple other shoddy defensive plays to assist Yomiuri's comeback from 3-0.
BAYSTARS 2, DRAGONS 0
Kisho Kagami (2-1) carried a one-hitter into the ninth inning and midseason pickup Kensuke Uchimura broke a scoreless deadlock in the 10th with a clutch hit as Yokohama avoided a sweep to host Chunichi.
The BayStars broke an 11-game skid at Nagoya Dome.
TIGERS 7, SWALLOWS 1
Tony Barnette (1-2) uncorked wild pitch plated the go-ahead run in the ninth [after an error allowed a runner] and the floodgates opened as Hanshin rallied for six runs to take the rubber game against Yakult at Jingu Stadium.