Former Cuba international Leslie Anderson was penciled into the cleanup spot on Saturday and promptly drove in four runs for the Yomiuri Giants in an 11-5 clubbing of the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp.
The Giants took the lead off Carp rookie Aren Kuri (2-1) in the first inning after Yasuyuki Kataoka singled with one out and Hisayoshi Chono followed with a double. Anderson put the ball in play, allowing Kataoka to score on the ground out.
Giants starting pitcher Kan Otake, who left Hiroshima as a free agent in the offseason, doubled in a run in the second, and solo homers by Jose Lopez and Shuichi Murata, who was bumped out of the cleanup spot for the day, made it 4-1 in the fourth. Anderson plated his second run of the game with an infield single in the fifth, and Hayato Sakamoto drove in two with a sixth-inning double.