Yokohama BayStars edge Yomiuri Giants in 12 innings
YOKOHAMA (Interstat) — Shugo Maki and Takuma Hayashi homered, and the Yokohama BayStars scored the winning run in the 12th inning to beat the Yomiuri Giants 4-3 on Monday evening at Yokohama Stadium.
Yomiuri’s Takumi Ohshiro hit a two-run homer, and Riku Masuda added a solo shot. Keita Sano’s groundout scored the tying run in the seventh. Both teams finished with 14 hits, and Yokohama recorded three sacrifice hits. Yokohama scored single runs in the first, second and seventh innings before the 12th.
Kentaro Taira allowed two earned runs over five innings with three walks and three strikeouts for Yokohama. Kenta Ishida pitched two scoreless relief innings with three strikeouts. Hiromu Ise, Masumi Hamachi, Chihaya Sasaki and Sean Reynolds each threw a scoreless inning. Sasaki earned the win, and Raidel Martinez took the loss.
Ohshiro finished 2 for 6 with two RBIs, while Masuda was 2 for 4. The game took 4 hours, 43 minutes. Attendance was 32,540. Yomiuri is now 70-58-2. Yokohama is 63-63-3. The teams meet again Tuesday.