Ryosuke Sawai and Koichi Hori each drove in three runs Friday as the Lotte Marines defeated the Kintetsu Buffaloes 8-3 in the final game of the Japanese baseball season.
Hori connected for a two-run homer off Kintetsu starter Hiroshi Takamura (9-10) in the second inning before Sawai hit a three-run drive, also off Takamura, in the fourth before a home crowd of 29,000 at Chiba Marine Stadium.
Kintetsu tied the game 2-2 in the third but Takamura allowed seven runs and eight hits in four innings of work and failed in his bid to earn double-digit wins for the first time in 10 years.