Greg LaRocca hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Orix Buffaloes a 4-3 'sayonara' win over the Rakuten Eagles in the Pacific League on Friday.
LaRocca took a 1-0 fastball from Koki Watanabe (3-3) over the left-field wall for his 23rd homer of the season after Arihito Muramatsu had drawn a leadoff walk at Kyocera Dome.
Orix sent the game into extra innings on an RBI double by Takeshi Hidaka in the bottom of the ninth before a Masanobu Okubo (3-1) wild pitch put Rakuten ahead in the top of the 10th.