Tyrone Woods homered to break a scoreless tie and Kenshin Kawakami threw seven shutout innings for his first win of the season as the Chunichi Dragons edged the Yokohama BayStars 2-1 on Thursday.
Woods led off the sixth inning with a drive over the left-field wall off Takumi Nasuno (1-4) and Norihiro Nakamura made it 2-0 with an RBI double one out later in Central League action at Nagoya Dome.
Kawakami (1-1) allowed just two hits and struck out seven with two walks and two hit batsmen.
Yokohama got within a run in the eighth on a Shuichi Murata sacrifice fly off Chen Wei-yin and loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth against Hitoki Iwase. But the left-handed closer held on for his 10th save, getting Takuro Ishii on a game-ending groundout.
Swallows 2, Tigers 0
At Koshien Stadium, Shohei Tateyama and two relievers combined on a one-hitter as Yakult became the first team to win a series against Central League leader Hanshin this season.
Carp 6, Giants 0
At Tokyo Dome, Masato Akamatsu went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer and Colby Lewis pitched his first shutout in Japan.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
Lions 5, Hawks 4
At Seibu Dome, Yoshihito Ishii drove in the winning run to cap a dramatic rally in the bottom of the ninth inning as Pacific League leader Seibu edged Fukuoka Softbank.
Fighters 6, Marines 1
At Chiba Marine Stadium, Atsunori Inaba homered and drove in five runs and Mitsuo Yoshikawa pitched six shutout innings to lead Hokkaido Nippon Ham to a three-game sweep of Chiba Lotte, which lost its fourth game in a row.
Buffaloes 6, Eagles 1
At Kobe's Skymark Stadium, Greg LaRocca hit a three-run homer and Satoshi Komatsu threw seven strong innings the lead Orix.
