Seibu slugger Alex Cabrera drilled two homers and drove home five RBIs as the Lions improved to .500 with an 8-4 victory over the Kintetsu Buffaloes on Thursday in the only Pacific League contest of the day at the Seibu Dome.
Cabrera hit a solo homer in the second inning, then belted a three-run dinger into the left-field bleachers for his 21st homer of the season.
Cabrera set a Japanese record for the fewest number of games to reach 20 homers in a season. He surpassed the previous record of 42 games set in 1968 by Shigeo Nagashima of the Yomiuri Giants.