Rookie right-hander Hiroshi Kisanuki struck out 10 over the distance and Kazuhiro Kiyohara and Tomohiro Nioka each hit solo homers to power the Yomiuri Giants to a 4-1 win over the Yokohama BayStars, snapping their three-game losing skid in the Central League on Saturday.
Kisanuki (4-2) scattered seven hits and missed his career first complete-game shutout after allowing an RBI single to Takanori Suzuki in the eighth. Kiyohara led off the fifth with his eighth homer followed by Takayuki Saito's triple and a Koji Goto RBI double at Yokohama Stadium. Yokohama failed to score after loading the bases with one out in the second.
Swallows 2, Tigers 0
At Jingu Stadium, Alex Ramirez hit a two-run drive off Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi (2-2) to break a scoreless deadlock in the sixth inning, lifting Yakult past front-running Hanshin.