HIROSHIMA, Japan (Interstat) — Yuta Izuguchi hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning Wednesday night, lifting the Yomiuri Giants to a 2-1 win over the Hiroshima Carp at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium.

The game was a scoreless pitchers’ duel through six innings. Yomiuri’s Masahiro Tanaka and Hiroshima’s Shohei Mori each threw seven scoreless frames. The Carp broke through with a run in the seventh.

In the ninth, Izuguchi connected off reliever Shota Nakazaki for his game-winning shot. Yuji Akahoshi earned the win with a scoreless eighth inning and Raidel Martinez secured the save. Attendance was 21,860. The game, completed in eight innings due to the Giants batting last, took 2 hours, 31 minutes.