Tomotaka Sakaguchi's sacrifice fly plated the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Thursday night.
Swallows No. 8 hitter Yuhei Nakamura opened the 10th with a double off Hiroshima's third reliever, Takeru Imamura (0-2), who had entered the game by pitching a 1-2-3 ninth. A sacrifice moved the runner to third and Sakaguchi ended the 4-hour, 4-minute game before 23,277 at Jingu Stadium with a fly to center.
Swallows starter Yasuhiro Ogawa walked five to match the career high he established six days earlier, and the Carp capitalized. The first two batters he walked in the game came home on Takahiro Arai's two-run, first-inning double.