Masayuki Kuwahara smashed a tie-breaking, two-run, eighth-inning triple to lift the Yokohama BayStars to a 5-3 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Before 28,939 at packed Yokohama Stadium, the BayStars overcame three solo homers by the Swallows, tying the score at 3-3 in the seventh on a Yoshitomo Tsutsugo RBI single.

With the Swallows' bullpen depleted by injury, journeyman right-hander Kazuki Kondo got two outs in the seventh to keep the BayStars from taking the lead. In the eighth, however, he surrendered a leadoff single to Yasutaka Tobashira and hit No. 9 hitter Toshihiko Kuramoto with two outs.