Orix BlueWave infielder Koichi Oshima belted a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning Sunday to lift the East 6-5 over the West in an exhibition baseball game with teams determined by the players' home prefectures.
Oshima, a Tokyo native playing for the Kobe-based BlueWave, homered off the Miyazaki native Satoshi Iriki of the Japan Series champion Yakult Swallows before 38,000 at the Tokyo Dome to be named the game's Most Valuable Player.
Kagoshima native Kosuke Fukudome, who plays for Nagoya's Chunichi Dragons, hit a pair of solo homers for the West squad and Osaka hometown hero Norihiro Nakamura of the Kintetsu Buffaloes connected for a two-run blast as the West went up 5-1 after 6 1/2 innings.