Jose Ortiz and Hiroki Kokubo each hit two-run homers as the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8-5 Sunday for their fourth straight victory.
Ortiz and Kokubo connected off Ryo Kawashima (3-3) in the third and fifth innings, respectively. Ortiz added a two-run double to put Softbank up 7-0 in the top of the sixth at Jingu Stadium.
Yakult scored two runs each in the sixth and eighth to pull within 7-4, but Yuya Hasegawa plated an insurance run for the Hawks in the ninth with a shot over the right-center wall.