Shinnosuke Abe doubled home the winning run with a drive to the wall in center field to give the Yomiuri Giants a 2-1 "sayonara" win in 10 innings over the Yokohama BayStars at Tokyo Dome on Wednesday.
Koichiro Yoshinaga led off the bottom of the 10th inning against Shane Bowers (4-4) with a game-tying solo homer after Yokohama's Takeshi Nakamura broke a scoreless deadlock with a home run in the top of the 10th.
Tigers 10, Carp 3
At Osaka Dome, Hanshin erupted for nine runs on 10 hits in the fourth and fifth innings to snap a three-game losing streak with a victory over Hiroshima.
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