TOKYO (Interstat) — Yusei Ishizuka’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning scored the go-ahead run, lifting the Yomiuri Giants to a 4-3 victory over the Yokohama BayStars on Tuesday night at Tokyo Dome.

Yokohama scored in the first inning, but Yomiuri answered with two runs on Yoshihiro Maru’s single. The BayStars tied it in the second on Yutaro Ishida’s RBI single, then took a 3-2 lead in the fifth on Ryuki Watarai’s solo home run. Yomiuri tied it again in the bottom of the fifth on Shunsuke Urata’s sacrifice fly before Ishizuka’s ninth-inning sac fly won it.

Yutaro Ishida, the BayStars’ starting pitcher, allowed three earned runs over six innings with six strikeouts. Yomiuri starter Shosei Togo gave up two earned runs in five innings. Raidel Martinez earned the win with a scoreless inning of relief, and Jose Ruiz took the loss after allowing the go-ahead run. Yomiuri had 10 hits, while Yokohama had five. The Giants recorded two sacrifice flies and two sacrifice hits. Attendance was 31,829, and the game lasted 3 hours, 6 minutes. Yomiuri improved to 64-54-2, and Yokohama dropped to 54-62-3.