Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters fans who bought tickets for Monday night's game came hoping to see a good show.
For the first time in a long time, Sho Nakata gave them one.
Kensuke Tanaka and Yoshio Itoi kept the Yomiuri Giants from scoring with two nifty defensive plays in the sixth and set the stage for Nakata's tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh, which helped give the Fighters a 3-2 win at Tokyo Dome.