Kintetsu hurler Kevin Beirne pitched a two-hitter over the distance for his fifth win as the Kintetsu Buffaloes beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 4-1 at Osaka Dome on Sunday.

Beirne (5-6) went the distance on 147 pitches, walking five while striking out nine for the win. He gave up a solo homer to Tomoya Satozaki in the eighth.

Akihito Fujii singled home the first run of the game in the fifth. Kintetsu scored three more runs on back-to-back RBI singles by Koichi Isobe and Masahiro Abe, and an RBI single by Naoyuki Omura.