It wasn't exactly pretty and it was definitely a little harder than expected.
But a win is a win, and in Game 5 of the Japan Series, you take them any way you can get them.
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles lost the lead in the bottom of the ninth, took it back on Ginji Akaminai's RBI single in the 10th, and got an insurance run on Andruw Jones' infield RBI single later in the frame to edge the Yomiuri Giants 4-2 on Thursday night at Tokyo Dome.