The Yomiuri Giants and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters ended their interleague series 2-2, but it was probably the Giants who felt as if they won it.
Having come up with just a single hit and down by two runs, Yomiuri finally showed some resistance against Fighters ace Yu Darvish, scoring three runs on five consecutive hits in the sixth to edge the Fighters 3-2 in front of a crowd of 44,887 at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
"We were expecting it'd be a three-run game," Yomiuri manager Tatsunori Hara said after the game with a sigh of relief. "And we actually made the game a three-run game and were able to win it. It was quite big."
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