Yu Darvish picked up his first win in four starts and Eiichi Koyano went 2-for-4 with four RBIs as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 7-3 on Wednesday.
Darvish (6-1) allowed three runs and seven hits in eight innings, striking out nine, walking one and hitting a batter in a 141-pitch outing in interleague play at Jingu Stadium.
The righty yielded a solo homer to Shinya Miyamoto in the second and gave up four straight singles leading off a two-run fifth.
Koyano singled in two runs each in the first and fifth innings. Kyohei Muranaka (3-6) was charged with seven runs in 4 2/3 innings for Yakult, which has lost four straight.
Giants 6, Eagles 1
At Tokyo Dome, Tetsuya Utsumi pitched his team's first complete game of the season with an 11-strikeout effort as Yomiuri beat Tohoku Rakuten.
Marines 5, Tigers 4
At Koshien Stadium, Tomoya Satozaki hit a tiebreaking single in the sixth inning off reliever Hirotaka Egusa (1-1) and the Chiba Lotte bullpen held strong to edge Central League leader Hanshin in a downpour.
Buffaloes 4, Dragons 2
At Nagoya Dome, Alex Cabrera hit a two-run homer to open the scoring and drove in three runs in backing Kazuki Kondo, who yielded two runs in five innings in Orix's win over Chunichi.
Hawks 6, BayStars 2 (7)
At Shin-Oita Stadium, Nobuhiko Matsunaka and Tetsuya Matoyama went deep to back Rick Guttormson, who helped his own cause with a homer of his own, as Fukuoka Softbank beat Yokohama.
Lions 5, Carp 3
At Fukuyama Municipal Stadium, Hiroshima Pref., Toru Hosokawa hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth inning and Takeya Nakamura added a three-run homer in the sixth as Seibu ended Hiroshima's winning streak at four games.
Kazuhisa Ishii (6-2) held Hiroshima to one unearned run and five hits in five innings.