FUKUOKA, Japan (Interstat) — Taisei Makihara hit a three-run home run and Yuki Yanagita drove in two runs as the SoftBank Hawks defeated the Lotte Marines 10-4 on Wednesday night at Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome.

The Hawks took an early lead on Tomoya Masaki’s solo homer in the first. After Lotte scored twice in the third and twice in the fifth, SoftBank answered with three in the third, two in the fourth, one in the fifth and three in the sixth. Makihara’s sixth-inning homer capped the scoring.

Tsuyoshi Yamasaki homered and drove in two for Lotte, which had six hits. SoftBank collected 11 hits and grounded into two double plays.

Naoyuki Uwasawa (7-4) allowed four earned runs over five innings for the win. Sam Long (1-5) took the loss. Darwinzon Hernandez, Gota Suzuki and Keisuke Sawada each pitched a scoreless inning.

SoftBank improved to 66-37-2. Lotte fell to 47-51-3. Attendance was 39,894, and the game lasted 3 hours, 3 minutes.