Hanshin slugger George Arias went 4-for-5 with four RBIs and Akihiro Yano also rapped out four hits as the Tigers defeated the Hiroshima Carp 7-4 at Hiroshima Stadium on Tuesday to slash their magic number to nine.
Hanshin's Yutaka Nakamura eludes the tag of the Carp's Takuya Kimura while stealing second base.
Arias homered in back-to-back at-bats -- his 29th and 30th clouts -- in the second and fourth, connected for an RBI single in the fifth, and doubled home a run in the seventh.
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