Usually when the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters face another Pacific League team at Tokyo Dome, they're the home team.
This time, the Fighters were cast in the unfamiliar role of visitors at the Big Egg. Not that it stopped them from making themselves right at home.
Yushi Shimizu, Oswaldo Arcia and Sho Nakata homered and a bullpen pressed into service on short notice held back the Seibu Lions lineup in Nippon Ham's 7-2 victory on Tuesday night.
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