Marines Edge Hawks 5‑4 Behind Satoh’s Two Homers

FUKUOKA (Interstat) — Toshiya Satoh homered twice and drove in two runs Saturday evening as the Chiba Lotte Marines defeated the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 5-4 at Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome. Satoh hit solo shots in the seventh and eighth innings, part of a 2-for-4 performance. Kyuto Ueda and Gregory Polanco also homered for Lotte, which had 12 hits. Hotaka Yamakawa hit two home runs and collected four RBIs for SoftBank, but the Hawks managed only three hits. Lotte scored one run in the second, two in the seventh, one in the eighth and one in the ninth. SoftBank scored one in the second and three in the fourth. Shota Suzuki (2-0) pitched one scoreless inning for the win. Yuki Matsumoto (1-2) took the loss. Rikuto Yokoyama earned his ninth save with a perfect ninth. Attendance was 40,122. The game lasted 3 hours, 13 minutes. Lotte improved to 15-20; SoftBank fell to 18-17.