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Lions feast on hurler's tough night

Rakuten Eagles lefty Kohei Hasebe endured one of the worst starts to a game any pitcher could imagine, and the Seibu Lions ate it up.
Hasebe walked the first batters and then surrendered a grand slam to Takeya Nakamura as the Lions battered Rakuten for a 14-4 win at the Kleenex Box on Friday.
Three others had two RBIs each, including Toru Hosokawa, who blasted his eighth home run.
The Lions, who moved back into first place in the Pacific League on Thursday, extended their lead to 1.5 games over SoftBank and Lotte.
Masamitsu Hirano (3-3) tossed six innings, allowing three runs on 11 hits with no walks and one punchout for a righty who has three of his career four win vs. the Eagles.
Hasebe (3-5), though, needed a do-over after walking the bases loaded and then missing the plate against Jose Fernandez to force in a run. After allowing Nakamura’s 10th career slam, he struck out the side in the first.
His line: 1.2 innings, nine runs, eight earned, four hits and five walks. His ERA went from 6.36 to7.83.

FIGHTERS 4, MARINES 1
Brian Wolfe (2-3) scattered four hits and two walks over 5.2 innings and five relievers tossed one-hit ball the rest of the way as Nippon Ham shut down Lotte at Chiba Marine Stadium.

BUFFALOES 11, HAWKS 2
Takahiro “T.O.” Okada ripped his PL-leading 32nd homer and fifth-year lefty Shinya Nakayama (2-2) scattered seven hits in his first complete game as Orix downed SoftBank at Skymark Stadium.

CENTRAL LEAGUE
DRAGONS 3, GIANTS 2
Masahiko Morino broke a scoreless tie with an RBI double in the fifth, and Kazuhiro Wada followed with his 1,500th career hit, a homer, as host Chunichi won to shove Yomiuri into third place.
The win was the seventh straight for Chunichi over Yomiuri at Nagoya Dome, and put out the Dragons 1.5 games behind first-place Hanshin.
Kazuki Yoshimi (12-7) got a quick hook in the sixth, but allowed a run over 5.1 innings for his club-record 11th single-season win at the dome.

CARP 5, TIGERS 4
Jun Hirose’s two-run single in the seventh helped Hiroshima come from behind to top front-running Hanshin at The Zoom.

SWLALLOWS 3, BAYSTARS 2
Yoshinori Sato (10-7) reached double digits in wins for the first time in his two-plus seasons, Norichika Aoki’s RBI double in the eighth being the difference as Yakult won at Yokohama.