Seibu slugger Alex Cabrera's Japanese single-season home-run record challenge has been carried over to his team's last game of the season after the big Venezuelan went homerless in the Lions' 6-2 win over the Orix BlueWave at Green Stadium Kobe on Thursday night.
Cabrera had his chances as Orix pitchers challenged him in all five of his at-bats in the game. But A-Cab flied out to right in the first and the third innings, fanned in the fifth and hit a single to left in the seventh before striking out again in the ninth.
Cabrera remains on 55 home runs, tied for the single-season record with Tuffy Rhodes and Sadaharu Oh. Seibu will play the Marines in Chiba on Monday.
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