Takeya Nakamura blew open the game with a three-run double in the bottom of the seventh as the Saitama Seibu Lions overpowered the Orix Buffaloes 11-3 in the Pacific League on Sunday.
Sosuke Genda drove in the go-ahead run in the fourth, while Shuta Tonosaki and Tomoya Mori each blasted two-run homers in the eighth to cement the victory at MetLife Dome.
A day after getting blanked 7-0, the Buffaloes led the hit count 16-10 but repeatedly left runners stranded.