YOKOHAMA, Japan (Interstat) — Kazuyuki Takemaru pitched six innings and Raidel Martinez earned his 26th save as the Yomiuri Giants defeated the Yokohama BayStars 5-4 on Saturday evening at Yokohama Stadium. The Giants scored two runs in the first inning after Bobby Dalbec’s sacrifice fly and Takumi Ohshiro’s run-scoring double. Jerar Encarnacion answered with a three-run homer in the bottom of the first for the BayStars.

Yomiuri added a run in the third on Misaki Sasahara’s single. Yokohama tied the game in the sixth on Tatsuo Ebina’s RBI single. The Giants regained the lead in the seventh when Yuta Izuguchi singled home a run and Makoto Kadowaki’s sacrifice bunt drove in another.

Takemaru allowed five hits and four earned runs with five strikeouts to improve to 6-6. Koh Nakagawa took the loss, falling to 4-4. Martinez pitched the ninth, allowing two hits and striking out two. Ohshiro went 2 for 3. The Giants collected eight hits to the BayStars’ seven. Yomiuri improved to 40-37-2, while Yokohama dropped to 31-46-3. Attendance was 33,198. Time of game was 3 hours, 46 minutes.