OSAKA (Interstat) — Yuma Mune hit two home runs and drove in four runs as the Orix Buffaloes defeated the Nippon-Ham Fighters 6-2 on Friday night at Osaka Dome. Mune homered in the sixth inning with a runner on, then struck again in the eighth with another two-run shot to break open the game. Orix scored all its runs in the sixth and eighth innings. Nippon-Ham managed single runs in the second and seventh. Both teams finished with eight hits. Each team made two sacrifice hits. Soichiro Yamazaki pitched a scoreless inning to earn the win. Mizuki Hori took the loss, allowing two earned runs on one hit in one-third of an inning. Kota Tatsu started for Nippon-Ham and allowed two earned runs with eight strikeouts in seven innings. Taito Takashima struck out four over 6 1/3 innings for Orix. Naoki Arizono had two hits and an RBI for Nippon-Ham. The attendance was 34,321, and the game lasted 2 hours 47 minutes. Nippon-Ham fell to 60-49, while Orix improved to 53-52-1.