Kenjiro Nomura delivered his 2,000th career hit and the Hiroshima Carp celebrated the feat with a 5-2 victory over the Yakult Swallows in the Central League on Thursday.
Hiroshima tied the game at 1-1 in the second inning with a Greg LaRocca solo homer and took the lead for good in the third on an RBI single by Shigenobu Shima and LaRocca's run-scoring grounder.
Takahiro Arai led off the fourth with a homer that made it 4-1 and Nomura followed with his memorable hit -- a single to left off Yakult right-hander Ryo Kawashima (5-5) in front of a home crowd of 17,376 at Hiroshima Stadium.