Norihiro Akahoshi drove in three runs on a pair of singles to help make a winner of Kei Igawa, who stretched his personal winning streak against Hiroshima to four straight since last season in a 7-1 rout of the Carp at Hiroshima Stadium on Tuesday night.
Hanshin's Kei Igawa fires a pitch against the Carp on Tuesday night. The Tigers won 7-1.
Akahoshi helped tie the game 1-1 with an RBI single in the second and capped a three-run fifth with a two-run single to make it 5-1 as front-running Hanshin won its third in a row.
Igawa (11-5) allowed one run -- a solo blast to Shigenobu Shima in the first -- and five hits with five strikeouts in his second complete game of the season to match the league lead in wins.