Seems like old times ...

Ishii goes the distance to beat former team

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama -- Kazuhisa Ishii had a “Hot Tub Time Machine” moment on Wednesday, taking down his former team with his first complete game in two years, giving him victories over all 12 Japan Pro Baseball teams.
Ishii (5-2) scattered five hits and three walks, while firing 136 pitches in the 3-2 walk-off win. He’s the ninth pitcher to have post wins against every team, and he fanned 11 to record double digits in strikeouts for the 40th time in his career, tying him for seventh all-time.
He earned the win thanks to some clutch hitting from Yasuyuki Kataoka, who doubled to tie the score in the seventh inning and doubled home the game-winner with one out in the ninth.
“I felt like if I could keep it to two runs, something good would happen and I worked hard to do that,” said Ishii, who allowed two runs in the third inning but kept the Central League’s last-place team off the scoreboard the rest of the way.
It was the sixth career walk-off hit for Kataoka, who ripped a drive deep to left off Swallows closer Lim Chang Yong.
The South Korean right-hander started the ninth by walking the first man he faced, and after a sacrifice Kataoka hit a drive that nearly left the park.
The Lions, the Pacific League’s top team, won the fourth straight and are 13 games above .500.

FIGHTERS 3, GIANTS 1
Former Yomiuri infielder Tomohiro Nioka cracked a two-run homer to break a 1-1 tie in sixth inning to give him homers against all 12 teams --the 18th player to do that—as Nippon Ham swept its two-game set against Yomiuri at Sapporo Dome.
Third-year lefty Naoki Miyanishi notched his first pro save with a scoreless ninth.
Nioka, who spent 10 years with the Giants before being traded to the Fighters, followed Atsunori Inaba’s double with his fourth longball of the season.

CARP 8, BUFFALOES 2
Eric Stultz notched his first win in Japan six strong innings as Hiroshima topped Orix at Kyocera Dome and was the only Central League team to beat the PL on Wednesday.
Yoshiyuki Ishihara homered and had a two-run single to back Stultz, who scattered five hits with no walks and eight punchouts.

MARINES 3, DRAGONS 1
Bill Murphy (2-0) went six-plus innings and only surrendered one hit. Unfortunately, he had a whopping seven walks, but pitched around them as Lotte downed Chunichi at Chiba Marine Stadium.

BAYSTARS 3, EAGLES 2
Kazuya Fujita failed to get a squeeze down that cost Yokohama a runner, then singled home the go-ahead run in the fifth, and the BayStars held on to down Rakuten at the Kleenex box in Miyagi.

HAWKS 9, TIGERS 3
Hitoshi Tamura doubled, homered and drove in three, and Jose Ortiz had an RBI single and a solo blast as SoftBank cruised past Hanshin at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome.