Player-coach Daisuke Miura allowed four hits over eight innings and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo homered twice to lift the Central League-leading Yokohama BayStars to a 2-0 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday.

The 41-year-old Miura improved to 2-0 in two starts this season, both against Yakult. The right-hander walked two batters and struck out four, while going 1-for-4 at the plate before 18,752 at Jingu Stadium.

Tsutsugo opened the scoring with a two-out solo shot in the third off Nagisa Arakaki (1-3), and the BayStars' 23-year-old captain added another leading off the fifth, his ninth of the season.