Yu Darvish struck out 10 over seven solid innings and Eiichi Koyano went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, leading the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to an 8-2 rout of the Hanshin Tigers in interleague play on Saturday.
Darvish (7-1) held Hanshin to one run on four hits with two walks en route to winning his seventh consecutive decision and joining Tohoku Rakuten's Masahiro Tanaka as the only seven-game winners in Japanese baseball.
The Fighters took a 2-0 lead in the first on back-to-back RBI singles from Koyano and Tomochika Tsuboi at Sapporo Dome.