Takeya Nakamura hit his Japanese baseball-leading 26th homer and Takahiko G.G. Sato added a go-ahead double in a four-run eighth inning as the Seibu Lions rallied to beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 11-2 on Friday.
Nakamura ended Masahiro Tanaka's (8-3) shutout bid with a tying two-run homer before G.G. Sato's run-scoring double and Tomoaki Sato's RBI infield single put Seibu up 4-2 at Kleenex Stadium.
The Lions then put the game out of reach with a seven-run ninth off reliever Koji Aoyama.