Andy Sheets hit three homers and drove in four runs and Shinjiro Hiyama had three RBIs as the front-running Hanshin Tigers routed the Yomiuri Giants 9-3 in the Central League on Tuesday.
Andy Sheets of the Hanshin Tigers hits a two-run homer, the first of his three home runs of
the game, in the first inning Tuesday at Tokyo Dome. Sheets added two solo homers later in the
game to lead the Tigers to a 9-3 win.
Sheets put the Tigers on the board in the first inning with a two-run shot off Koji Uehara (6-9) and Hiyama's two-run homer made it 4-1 in the fourth after Toshihisa Nishi cut the lead to 2-1 on a solo drive in the third at Tokyo Dome.