Some good, some bad and some ugly ...

Good teams find a way to win, bad ones develop ways to lose.

The Hiroshima Carp showed why they are near the bottom of the Central League standings, turning a victory into a loss that will be nearly impossible to forget.
Two ninth-inning errors helped the first-place Yomiuri Giants plated two runs in a late 5-4 comeback win over the Carp at the Zoom on Wednesday.
Edgar Gonzalez doubled to open the inning, and an error on Yoshiyuki Kamei’s sacrifice bunt put runners on second and third with none out.
Hayato Sakamoto got the Giants even with a scoring flyball before Akihiro Higashide’s error plated the go-ahead run.
The Carp had their moments. After falling behind 2-0 on red-hot Shinnosuke Abe’s 26th homer in the fourth, a wild pitch from Giants starter Ken Nishimura gifted Hiroshima a run in the bottom of the frame.
In the fifth, Eishin Soyogi knocked in the tying run with a single and Masato Akamatsu doubled to give the Carp a 4-2 lead.
Dioni Soriano went seven sharp innings and left with the lead, but John Bale (0-2) was the victim of poor defense.

DRAGONS 2, TIGERS 1
Chen Wei-yin finally looked like the league ERA leader from last season, handcuffing Hanshin on seven hits over 7.2 innings, and Kazuhiro Wada knocked in both runs as Chunichi won at Koshien.
Chen (5-7) didn’t walk a batter and fanned three, and Wada blasted his 21st longball, a solo shot in the fourth, to lead the Dragons.

SWALLOWS 3, BAYSTARS 2
Norichika Aoki doubled in the tying run and Hiroyasu Tanaka followed with a run-scoring single in the fifth inning and visiting Yakult held off Yokohama.
Three Swallows relievers combined to work 3.1 scoreless innings to close it out.

PACIFIC LEAGUE

BUFFALOES 3, EAGLES 2
Takeshi Hidaka ripped a two-run walk-off homer in the ninth inning as Orix woke up in time to top visiting Rakuten.
The Eagles took the lead in the top of the inning on Takeshi Yamasaki’s RBI groundout, but closer Tsuyoshi Kawagishi (2-3) didn’t record an out.

FIGHTERS 7, LIONS 3, 11 innings
Eiichi Koyano keyed a four-run 11th inning with a bases-loaded, two-run single -- his third hit -- to break a tie, and visiting Nippon Ham topped Seibu.
It was the third hit for Koyano, who helped the Fighters stretch their winning streak to five games.

MARINES 7, HAWKS 4
KimTae Kyung double in two runs and Saburo Omura tripled in a pair in a five-run fifth inning that carried host Lotte past Softbank.