Veteran Yasutomo Kubo allowed two runs in seven innings to pace the Yokohama BayStars to a 7-3 Central League victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Tuesday evening.

Kubo, working with a lead after Takayuki Kajitani's two-run, first-inning double, allowed the Dragons to tie it in the bottom of the first after a pair of infield singles, an error and a wild pitch.

The 35-year-old right-hander worked around a pair of one-out hits in the second before getting the lead for good. When he issued back-to-back, two-out walks in the sixth to load the bases, Kubo escaped by striking out Anderson Hernandez.