HIROSHIMA (Interstat) — Yuta Saitoh allowed two earned runs over five innings and Sandro Fabian homered to lift the Hiroshima Carp to a 5-2 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Saturday night at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium. Hanshin struck first on a two-run home run by Shota Morishita in the top of the first inning. Hiroshima answered with one run in the bottom of the first on Shogo Sakakura’s run-scoring groundout. The Carp pushed ahead with two runs in the third on a run-scoring groundout by Elehuris Montero and a run-scoring single by Sakakura. Fabian’s two-run homer in the sixth extended the lead to 5-2. Hiroshima collected 10 hits; Hanshin had six. Saitoh struck out four and yielded three hits, improving to 2-2. Koutaro Ohtake took the loss, falling to 4-8, after allowing three earned runs and five hits in four innings. Daisuke Moriura struck out one in the ninth for his 14th save. Hanshin fell to 56-48-1, while Hiroshima improved to 46-51-1. Attendance was 31,945; time of game was 3:03.