Shinnosuke Abe was on fire from the time he stepped in the batter's box, and it was going to take a lot more than the Yokohama BayStars could muster to cool him off.
Abe homered and drove in five runs, Alex Ramirez hit a two-run shot, and Hisayoshi Chono also went deep as the Yomiuri Giants knocked around the BayStars in a 8-2 win to avoid a series sweep on Thursday at Tokyo Dome.
"It's good we got this win after losing the first two games of the series," Abe said. "There are not many games remaining, and we have to win as many as we can."