Shinjiro Hiyama hit for the cycle and Kei Igawa struck out eight over the distance as the Hanshin Tigers pounded out 17 hits to crush the Chunichi Dragons 14-3 in the Central League on Wednesday.
Hiyama hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the first, doubled in the third, singled in the fifth and tripled in the seventh at Koshien Stadium, to become the third player after Atsunori Inaba (Yakult Swallows) and Arihito Muramatsu (Daiei Hawks) to perform the cycle in two days.
The Tigers, who with the win moved 30 games above .500, drove in five runs on six hits in the fifth, capped off by Atsushi Kataoka's three-run drive. Igawa (10-3) scattered eight hits, and helped himself to the league high in wins with a two-run single in the second.
Giants 7, Carp 6