CHIBA — There's nothing like a little extra motivation to get a player going. Well that and yakiniku apparently.

With his family in the stands and his team in need of a win, Jose Ortiz came up big Tuesday night for the Chiba Lotte Marines and it couldn't have come at a better time.

Ortiz hit a home run and drove in five runs as the Marines defeated the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 12-1 at Chiba Marine Stadium to avoid a series sweep. Ortiz finished 4-for-5 and put an exclamation point on his night with a towering two-run home run to left that put Chiba Lotte up 10-1 in the sixth.

It was the 700th home run at Chiba Marine Stadium by a Lotte player.

"My family is here, they came on the 30th," Ortiz said. "So I wanted to show a good performance today and wanted to win in front of them."

Ortiz also joked that eating lots of yakiniku probably helped as well.

"I've been eating a lot of it," he said. "It's my family's favorite, too. So we've been going out to eat yakiniku together."

Ortiz turned a first-inning slider from Rakuten starter Yasuhiro Ichiba's (0-1) into a two-run RBI double to put Lotte in front early and the Pacific League's third-place team never looked back. Saburo Omura had a big night as well, going 3-for-5 with three RBIs, for the Marines who also got two RBI's from Koichi Hori and one each from Kazuya Fukuura and Daisuke Hayakawa.

The Marines' production was a long time coming for a team that has won just two of its last eight.

"Sou desune, sou desune," Marines manager Bobby Valentine said. "We were due for a game like that. We're a good hitting team."

The strong offensive performance backed a solid outing by Lotte starter Naoyuki Shimizu (4-7). The Marines hurler struck out nine over seven strong innings, allowing only Kenshi Kawaguchi's second-inning homer, to pick up the win.

"Today I really realized that it's so hard to win at the professional level and how great it feels to win," Shimizu said.

Despite the Marines' recent slump Valentine implied that he left it to players to break out of their recent funk.

"I believe in my hitters" Valentine said. They don't need my advice, they need my belief."