Rookie right-hander Toshiki Sakurai blew a three-run lead and the Yomiuri Giants suffered their first loss of the season as the Yokohama BayStars came from behind to win 6-3 in the Central League on Wednesday.

Sakurai (0-1), the No. 1 draft pick last October, had one bright spot in his difficult evening when he hit a sacrifice fly for Yomiuri's third run in the fifth off Yokohama's Venezuelan Guillermo Moscoso (1-0). But the right-hander, who allowed a hit in each of the previous four innings, allowed five in the bottom of the inning and was knocked out of the game as the BayStars tied.

With one out, Moscoso singled and Hiroyuki Shirasaki doubled before both were driven home by Sho Aranami's single. Sakurai failed to regroup and allowed two more singles to load the bases before he hit Jamie Romak with his 83rd pitch and got the hook.