Koji Goto pinch-hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to lift the Yomiuri Giants over the Yakult Swallows 6-5 at Tokyo Dome on Friday.

With the Giants leading 5-1 in the seventh, Katsuyuki Dobashi led off the inning with a solo homer and with two out, Todd Betts singled home two runs.

In the eighth, Shinichi Sato hit an RBI single off Yomiuri reliever Yukinaga Maeda (4-2) to tie the game before Goto hit a sacrifice fly off Swallows reliever Ryota Igarashi (2-3) to put the Giants ahead.