HIROSHIMA (Interstat) — Takato Ihara allowed one earned run over five innings of two-hit ball, striking out four, as the Hanshin Tigers beat the Hiroshima Carp 8-1 on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026, at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium.

Teruaki Sato hit a two-run homer in the first inning, and Seishiro Sakamoto drove in three runs with a single and a double. Hanshin broke it open with two runs in the seventh, two in the eighth and two in the ninth. The Tigers collected 13 hits; the Carp had three.

Elehuris Montero hit a solo homer for Hiroshima in the fifth. Hiroshima starter Shohei Mori allowed four earned runs over six-plus innings in the loss.

Ihara improved to 4-2. Mori fell to 1-3. Hanshin moved to 59-46-1; Hiroshima dropped to 40-58-1.

Attendance was 31,645. The game lasted 3 hours 5 minutes. Hanshin won despite grounding into two double plays. Rito Kinoshita, Rafael Dolis, Suguru Iwazaki and Masaki Oyokawa each threw a scoreless inning of relief for Hanshin.