Tsubasa Aizawa hit a tiebreaking home run with one out in the ninth inning, Brad Eldred went deep twice, and the second-place Hiroshima Carp rallied once to beat the Yokohama BayStars 7-5 on Sunday afternoon.
Yoshihiro Maru opened the scoring in the first with an RBI single up the middle, and Eldred added a two-run drive over the center-field wall before making an encore with a solo shot — his 25th home run — in his next at-bat in the third at Yokohama Stadium.
Yulieski Gurriel drove in three runs on 2-for-2 hitting, featuring a go-ahead two-run homer in the fifth, which put the BayStars ahead 5-4 before Maru tied it with a homer leading off the eighth.