There was sun, rain, a little hail, sun again and finally a blanket of gray clouds at Zozo Marine Stadium on Saturday.
Eventually, the Chiba Lotte Marines' bats showed up as well.
Katsuya Kakunaka tied the game with an RBI double in the eighth and Seiya Inoue gave the Marines their only lead of the afternoon with a single later in the inning as Lotte edged the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3-2 in front of a sellout crowd of 30,267 on Saturday afternoon in Chiba.