Kei Igawa struck out 13 and allowed only two hits Tuesday to lead the Hanshin Tigers to a 2-0 victory over the Yakult Swallows in the Central League.

Igawa (9-4) went the distance at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on 121 pitches for his fifth complete game this season and did not allow a walk as the Tigers ended a three-game losing streak to the defending CL champions.

Osamu Hamanaka drew a bases-loaded walk for the Tigers in the first inning and George Arias drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth for Hanshin to give skipper Senichi Hoshino career win No. 800.

Hoshino, who managed the Chunichi Dragons for 11 seasons, is the 14th manager in Japanese baseball to reach 800 wins.

Giants 5, Dragons 2 (12)
At the Tokyo Dome, Tomohiro Nioka belted a three-run homer with two out in the bottom of the 12th inning to lift Yomiuri to a "sayonara" victory over Chunichi.

The league-leading Giants spotted Chunichi a 2-0 lead through 7 1/2 innings, but All-Star veteran Kazuhiro Kiyohara sparked the Yomiuri comeback with a solo homer in the eighth and then forced extra innings with an RBI single with two out in the ninth.

Carp 3, BayStars 2
In Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Takahiro Arai drew a bases-loaded walk for the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth to lift Hiroshima to its fourth straight win with a triumph over host Yokohama.

PACIFIC LEAGUE

Marines 10, Lions 2
Rookie catcher Toshiya Tsuji belted a grand slam homer in the fifth inning as Lotte breezed to a win over the front-running Lions at the Seibu Dome.

Fighters 7, Buffaloes 2
At the Osaka Dome, Michihiro Ogasawara and Tatsuya Ide hit two-run homers as Nippon Ham snapped a four-game losing streak against Kintetsu.

BlueWave vs. Hawks -- ppd.

Matsui wins election

Yomiuri outfielder Hideki Matsui topped the balloting for this year's professional baseball All-Star series while the Giants and Hanshin Tigers each won five spots on the Central League squad, Nippon Professional Baseball announced Tuesday.

Matsui was named on 1,298,046 ballots and will appear in the All-Star series for a seventh straight year via fan voting and for a ninth time overall.

Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes outfielder Tuffy Rhodes, who has hit 28 homers thus far this season, was second overall in fan balloting, receiving 1,241,803 votes as five of the six teams in the Pacific League were represented in the final fan favorites.

Along with Matsui, fans picked Hideki Okajima (middle reliever), Junichi Kawahara (closer), Kazuhiro Kiyohara (first baseman) and Yoshinobu Takahashi (outfielder) from the CL-leading Yomiuri squad.

Hanshin, meanwhile, buoyed by an early season run at the top of the CL standings also have five players on the league's first team -- Kei Igawa (starting pitcher), Akihiro Yano (catcher), Makoto Imaoka (second baseman), Atsushi Kataoka (third baseman) and Shinjiro Hiyama (outfielder).

Shortstop Hirokazu Ibata of the Chunichi Dragons was the only player from another team selected by fans for a spot on the CL squad.

Managers Tsutomu Wakamatsu of the Yakult Swallows and Masataka Nashida of the Kintetsu Buffaloes are scheduled to name the remainder of the CL and PL squads, respectively, on Wednesday.

The first game of the all-star series will be held at Tokyo Dome on July 12 with the second game following the next day in Matsuyama, Ehime Pref.