Alex Cabrera hit his 54th homer and Kazuo Matsui belted No. 36, but Nobuhiko Matsunaka had the final word with a solo shot in the eighth that lifted the Daiei Hawks to a 6-5 win over the Seibu Lions on Friday night at the Fukuoka Dome.
Cabrera's blast off Akio Mizuta in the sixth inning was his first in six games and leaves him one homer shy of tying the Japanese record of 55 set by Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants in 1964 and tied last season by the Kintetsu Buffaloes' Tuffy Rhodes.
Daiei southpaw Shuji Yoshida (7-3) picked up the win after striking out four in 2 1/3 innings of work as the Hawks snapped a four-game losing streak.