Rhee Dae-eun scattered eight hits over seven scoreless innings, Takashi Ogino and Luis Cruz drove in five runs between them, and the Chiba Lotte Marines beat the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in a 9-0 whitewash on Saturday afternoon.
Toshiaki Imae opened the scoring with a run-scoring single in the first and Ogino's three-run triple along with Cruz's two-run single keyed a seven-run frame, when the Marines sent 12 batters to the plate in the sixth at QVC Marine Field.
Rhee (3-0) struck out two and walked two against Tadashi Settsu (2-2), who was rocked for eight runs — two earned — on nine hits in 5-2/3 innings of the loss.