The Yokohama BayStars got the performances they needed at the plate and on the mound to beat the Yomiuri Giants.
They just didn't get them early enough.
Yomiuri's C.C. Mercedes pitched into the seventh, Yasuhiro Yamamoto drove in a pair of runs and Yomiuri stamped out a ninth-inning rally to beat the reeling BayStars 5-4 in front of a crowd of 43,766 on Saturday afternoon at Tokyo Dome.