Trailing by a run with one out in the bottom of the ninth, Kintetsu third baseman Norihiro Nakamura belted a two-run, "sayonara" home run off of Tomokazu Iba to edge Nippon Ham 5-4 at the Osaka Dome on Sunday.
The Fighters had 12 hits, including Michihiro Ogasawara's solo shot in the sixth, but stranded eight runners.
Lions 9, BlueWave 0
Alex Cabrera and Kazuhiro Wada hit back-to-back dingers in Seibu's six-run second inning and Tetsuya Shiozaki pitched a two-hitter into the seventh as the Lions shut down Orix at the Seibu Dome.