Masahiro Tanaka won his seventh straight start and Norihiro Nakamura hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles edged the Chunichi Dragons 3-2 on Wednesday.
Tanaka (7-0) allowed two runs, one earned, on seven hits while striking out seven and walking two in interleague play at Nagoya Dome.
Nakamura redeemed himself after making a run-scoring error in the seventh by breaking a 2-2 tie with a two-out RBI single to right off Akifumi Takahashi (1-1) in the eighth.