First of all...

You never forget your first
Ah, a first victory. Hitoshi Fujie earned his first win as a pro and rookie skipper Takao Obana his first as manager on Sunday afternoon at Kyocera Dome.
So what does Obana do with the ball after 3-2 victory over the Hanshin Tigers? He chucks it into the stands and heads into the clubhouse.
Fujie came out for the on-field postgame interview and team officials retrieved the ball -- a memento for the second-year lefty from Osaka.
“The ball ended up in the stands, but they got it back for me. But really, I’m happy that we won the game, and we all worked hard as a team to win this,” said the former NOMO Baseball Club member.
The BayStars have the same record as the Japan Series-winning Yomiuri Giants at 1-2.
Obana, who has been a pitching coach since his 1991 retirement, was composed but happy with his first victory.
“It doesn’t matter how you win, winning feels good,” said Obana, whose relievers allowed one run over 4.2 innings to nail it down for Fujie.

SWALLOWS 5, GIANTS 2
Fifth-year lefty Kyohei Muranaka allowed two runs over eight innings to stop a personal six-game skid against the Giants since becoming a pro as Yakult won at Tokyo Dome.
It was the third straight year the Swallows have won their season-opening series, and the first time they’ve won consecutive games at the Big Egg in six years.
Muranaka fanned a career-best 11 while walking two.
“If you don’t beat the Giants, you can’t get to the top, so this was a good win,” Muranaka said.

DRAGONS 8, CARP 7, 10 INNINGS
The Chunichi Dragons uncharacteristically made five errors in three games against Hiroshima, including two by new import Dionys Cesar. But the Dominican also had two hits, the second an RBI walk-off single in the 10th inning that gave the Dragons a win over Hiroshima at Nagoya Dome.
The win made it eight straight years that the Dragons have won their season-opening series.

PACIFIC LEAGUE
EAGLES 2, LIONS 1, 10 INNINGS
Masahiro Tanaka (1-0) worked a career-long 10 innings, holding Saitama Seibu to a run on five hits as Tohoku Rakuten and new skipper Marty Brown beat the Lions at Kleenex Stadium Miyagi.
Tanaka, a fourth-year righty, threw his 13th complete game, and Naoto Watanabe won it with an RBI infield walk-off single in the 10th.

MARINES 6, FIGHTERS 5
Kim Tae Kyun’s two-run single in the ninth gave Lotte a walk-off win over last year’s PL champion Nippon Ham at Chiba Marines Stadium.
The victory gave the Marines back-to-back series wins to open the season for the first in 36 years.

BUFFALOES 4, HAWKS 1
Hiroshi Kisanuki (1-0) worked 7.2 sharp innings to help Orix top SoftBank at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome and win its first two season-opening series for the first time in 10 years.