Yokohama BayStars ace Daisuke Miura (3-9) pitched a no-hitter into the seventh and allowed only three hits in an 8-0 shutout against the Hiroshima Carp at Hiroshima Stadium on Wednesday.
Hirofumi Ogawa drove home four runs for Yokohama. Ernie Young went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, including a two-run shot in the seventh.
Dragons 3, Tigers 2
Leo Gomez and Kazuyoshi Tatsunami hit back-to-back home runs to turn the game around in the sixth inning as Chunichi came from behind to edge Central League-leading Hanshin at the Nagoya Dome.
Gomez hit his 150th career homer in Japan -- a solo shot -- off Kei Igawa (8-3) into the left-field stands.
Swallows 6, Giants 1
Right-hander Kevin Hodges pitched seven shutout innings and Shinichi Sato and Hajime Miki provided run support by driving in two runs apiece as Yakult beat Yomiuri in a 14-hit attack at the Tokyo Dome.
Pacific League
Lions 6, BlueWave 3
Alex Cabrera, Kazuo Matsui and pinch-hitter Hiroyuki Oshima all homered to power Seibu to a 6-3 victory over the Orix BlueWave for its eighth win in a row.
Fumiya Nishiguchi (7-3) managed to hold Orix to just one run on seven hits in six innings.
Buffaloes at Marines -- ppd.