Southpaw Terry Burrows tossed a four-hitter over seven innings Saturday as the Pacific League-leading Orix BlueWave edged the Seibu Lions 2-1 in Nagano.
Burrows (3-1) gave up a solo homer to Satoshi Nakajima in the third inning and struggled with his control but pitched well enough to pick up his third win while Hisashi Ogura worked the final two frames for his eighth save.
Ichiro Suzuki tied the game with an RBI single to right in the sixth inning and designated hitter Troy Neel followed with a single to left that drove in the winning run as the BlueWave edged 1 1/2 games ahead of Seibu in the PL standings.
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