Rookie southpaw Tsuyoshi Wada pitched eight-plus electric innings of six-hit ball and Nobuhiko Matsunaka and Hiroshi Shibahara both hit two-run homers as the Pacific League-leading Daiei Hawks defeated the Nippon Ham Fighters 5-1 on Thursday.
Daiei Hawks designated hitter Nobuhiko Matsunaka hits a two-run home run the first of his two in the game off Nippon Ham Fighters starter Satoru Kanemura.
With two out in the first, Matsunaka connected off Satoru Kanemura (10-7) for his 25th homer of the season after Munenori Kawasaki reached on a single to right in front of a crowd of 30,000 at Tokyo Dome.