Ace gone wild ...

Sugiuchi walks 6 as Marines stroll past Hawks

SoftBank Hawks ace Toshiya Sugiuchi went wild on Saturday, giving up a career-worst nine runs against the Lotte Marines.
His team battled back after falling behind by eight, but the result was a 9-6 win for the Marines, who pulled even with the Hawks in the Pacific League standings.
Lotte didn’t have to do much but sit back and watch Sugiuchi (15-6) self-destruct.
The southpaw, the league leader in wins and strikeouts, had six walks -- three with the bases loaded -- and couldn’t get out of the fourth inning.
The only real damage from the Marines came from Shoitsu Omatsu, who made Sugiuchi pay for walking two in the first inning by blasting his 16th homer, a three-run shot.
Tsuyoshi Nishioka had two hits and a walk, and scored two runs to help torment Sugiuchi, who managed to strike out five.
Lefty Yuji Yoshimi (6-5) held the Hawks to a run over the first five innings, but gave up a two-run homer to Hitoshi Tamura, his 22nd, in a three-run sixth before departing.

BUFFALOES 2, FIGHTERS 1
Shinya Nakayama (1-2) shut down Hokkaido Nippon Ham over seven as the Orix won at Kyocera Dome Osaka.
Nakayama, a fifth-year lefty making his third start this season, limited the Fighters to a run on five hits, while walking two and fanning three for his first win since June 7, 2008.

EAGLES 5, LIONS 5, 12 INNINGS
Seibu scored the game-tying run on Shinichiro Koyama’s wild pitch in the eighth and neither the Lions nor Rakuten could score another run in this year's longest PL game at 5 hours, 23 minutes.
The Lions are winless in their last eight.

CENTRAL LEAGUE
CARP 4, GIANTS 1
Giancarlo Alvarado (6-6) and four relievers combined to hold Yomiuri to one run on 10 hits as Hiroshima won at The Zoom.
The Carp had just two hits, including a two-run homer by Jun Hirose in the sixth.

DRAGONS 5, BAYSTARS 3
Kazuhiro Wada hit a three-run and Masahiro Yamamoto (3-0) tossed 6.2 sharp innings as Chunichi topped host Yokohama.

TIGERS 9, SWALLOWS 2
Matt Murton had four hits, including his 16th homer, Takashi Toritani and Takahiro Arai each had three hits and two RBIs as Hanshin routed Yakult at Jingu Stadium.