FUKUOKA (Interstat) — Livan Moinelo threw six scoreless innings and Taisei Makihara homered and drove in three runs as the SoftBank Hawks routed the Chiba Lotte Marines 16-2 on Tuesday afternoon and evening at Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome.

The Hawks racked up 16 hits and scored in six different innings. They scored four runs in the first, two in the second, one in the fourth, three in the sixth, two in the seventh and four in the eighth. Makihara’s three-run homer highlighted the first. Tomoya Masaki, Ukyo Shuto and Ryoya Kurihara each homered and drove in two runs. Tatsuru Yanagimachi added three RBIs, and SoftBank hit two sacrifice flies.

Hisanori Yasuda and Koki Yamaguchi homered for the Marines, who managed seven hits and grounded into two double plays. Lotte scored one run in the seventh and one in the ninth.

Moinelo (1-0) allowed four hits and struck out five over six innings. Tokito Kawamura (1-4) took the loss. The attendance was 39,894 and the game lasted 2 hours, 40 minutes.

SoftBank improved to 65-37-2; Lotte fell to 47-50-3.