SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters posed for their Pacific League Championship picture after Game 2, but all the in-game glamour shots belonged to Tomoya Satozaki.

Satozaki hit two home runs to lead a five-homer attack as the Chiba Lotte Marines pulled even in the second stage of the PL Climax Series with a 8-1 win at Sapporo Dome on Sunday afternoon.

"We can score in a lot of different ways," Marines manager Bobby Valentine said. "Today we had some power."

Jose Ortiz, Saburo Omura and Daisuke Hayakawa also went deep to help Lotte avoid facing a 2-0 deficit heading into Monday's Game 3.

"I think everybody was really conscious of doing everything to win this game," Satozaki said. "And you saw it in our performance."

The Marines will try to take control of the series when they face righty Ryan Glynn in Game 3.

"I'm going to pitch to win," Glynn said. "I'm going to pitch aggressively and I'm going to pitch the way Ryan Glynn has pitched all year."

The way Glynn, who won nine games behind a 2.20 ERA, has pitched all year has usually led to Nippon Ham victories. However the Fighters will face a tough task of their own in Lotte starter Shunsuke Watanabe, who has pitched three consecutive complete-game wins.

After the loss, the Fighters took a team photo and went about their post-game business as usual, stressing that there was no panic despite the loss.

"That's why they call it a series," Hillman said, repeating the statement he made after Game 1. "I've been doing this too long. It's never over until it's over. We just flat-out got beat today."

After a strong regular season, Nippon Ham starter Masaru Takeda was chased after pitching 1 1/3 innings and giving up four runs.

"We gave them pitches to hit and they hit them," Hillman said. "Masaru is a touch-and-go pitcher and there were a couple that were borderline that we wish we had."

Everything did not go the Marines' way however, as starter Hiroyuki Kobayashi left after just 3 1/3 innings with a right calf injury. After throwing a pitch Kobayashi looked uncomfortable on the mound and had to be taken to the dugout for treatment. He returned to the mound in an attempt to keep playing but was deemed unable to continue.

"Actually this is something that often happens," Kobayashi said. "It most often happens when I'm in really good form. I felt really bad that I left the bullpen with such a heavy load."

With Kobayashi gone Koji Takagi, Yusuke Kawasaki, Yasuhiko Yubuta and Masahide Kobayashi pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings of relief to nail down the win.

"The bullpen did a good job even though they weren't ready for that situation," Valentine said.

Despite the injury, there is still the possibility that Kobayashi could be used in the bullpen if needed.

"He had a bad calf in the third inning," Valentine said. "He tried to go back out and couldn't. We'll see how he feels tomorrow."

But the Marines still had plenty to smile about.

"I knew things were going our way because I had the hit-and-run on and I got an emergency call from my son and I went away from the play and the next pitch he hit a home run," Valentine said, referring to Satozaki's seventh-inning shot.

After a solid performance, in Game 1 nothing seemed to go Nippon Ham's way in the second game. In fact, according to Hillman, there was only one good thing he could take from the game.

"We took the (PL) championship picture after the game," Hillman said.

But on Sunday afternoon even that had a downside.

"Every time we've had something like that scheduled after the game, in the five years I've been here, every time we have something scheduled we've lost," Hillman said.