Leadoff man Ryosuke Hirata drove in three runs on a pair of hits as the Chunichi Dragons beat the Hiroshima Carp 6-5 on Saturday.
Coming into the game with a .337 batting average, the third-best mark in the Cenral League, Hirata hit RBIs in the third and fifth innings to help power the last-place Dragons past the league leaders at Nagoya Dome.
Hiroshima went ahead in the top of the first when CL home run leader Yoshihiro Maru launched his 35th long ball of the season, a two-run effort that sent Dragons starter Kento Fujishima's 1-2 fastball deep over the right-field fence.