The wind never let up as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chiba Lotte Marines played at Zozo Marine Stadium.
Neither did Yuki Yanagita.
Yanagita homered into the wind in the first inning and connected on a tiebreaking two-run triple in the seventh as the defending Pacific League champion Hawks rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Chiba Lotte Marines in front of a crowd of 30,030 on Thursday afternoon.