Katsuhiko Miyaji went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Nobuhiko Matsunaka homered to lead the Pacific League-leading Softbank Hawks to a 7-4 victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles on Tuesday night.
Softbank's Nobuhiko Matsunaka watches his Pacific
League-leading 33rd home run leave the yard in the sixth inning against Rakuten at Fukuoka's Yahoo Dome.
Miyaji hit a two-run single and Jolbert Cabrera followed with a two-run double as Softbank jumped to a 4-0 lead in the first inning, before Matsunaka connected off Keven Hodges (2-9) in the sixth to make it 5-2 at Yahoo Dome.
The blast was Matsunaka's PL-best 33rd of the season.