HIROSHIMA (Interstat) — Seiya Hosokawa homered twice and Yuta Ishii drove in four runs as the Chunichi Dragons defeated the Hiroshima Carp 7-1 on Saturday night at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium.

Hosokawa opened the scoring with a solo home run in the first inning. Chunichi added a run in the third on Kaito Muramatsu’s two-out single. Ishii’s three-run homer in the fourth made it 5-0. Hosokawa hit his second homer in the fifth, and Ishii singled home a run in the sixth.

Hiroshima scored in the fifth when Elehuris Montero hit a sacrifice fly.

Kyle Muller pitched five innings, allowing six hits and no earned runs with four strikeouts for the win. The left-hander improved to 3-6. Yuta Saitoh took the loss, falling to 1-2. Kento Fujishima, Albert Abreu, Sho Kusaka and Seiya Yoshida each pitched an inning of scoreless relief.

The Dragons had 10 hits; the Carp had seven. Attendance was 31,830, and the game lasted 3 hours, 1 minute. Chunichi improved to 39-56-1. Hiroshima fell to 36-51-2.