Koji Uehara and two relievers combined on a seven-hit shutout Sunday as the Yomiuri Giants ended the Chunichi Dragons' seven-game winning streak with a 3-0 win in the Central League.
Uehara (6-5) scattered five hits, all singles, with no walks and six strikeouts in seven innings at Tokyo Dome against a Chunichi lineup missing Tyrone Woods and Kazuhiro Wada, who were left out of the starting order after the Dragons clinched the third and final playoff spot on Saturday.
Takahiro Suzuki homered leading off the bottom of the first and Shinnosuke Abe also hit a solo homer off Taiwanese left-hander Chen Wei-yin (7-6) in the fourth.