Elian Herrera tied it with an eighth-inning double and Masayuki Kuwahara played the hero for the second straight day to lift the Yokohama BayStars to a 7-6 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Saturday.

Before 28,446 at Yokohama Stadium, the Giants twice took the lead behind right-hander Miles Mikolas, who was making his belated 2016 debut after going 13-3 with a 1.92 ERA last year. But the BayStars kept coming back, with Herrera and Kuwahara finishing the job against Scott Mathieson (6-1).

Trailing by a run, right-hander Mike Zagurski weathered a pair of one-out singles in the seventh, and followed with a 1-2-3 eighth to earn his first win in Japan. Yasuaki Yamasaki closed it out in the ninth with his 17th save to seal the BayStars' fourth straight win.