Orix Buffaloes manager Satoshi Nakajima is not usually a man of many words during postgame interviews and that was a good thing after Game 1 of the Japan Series.

Because it might have been hard to find the right words to describe what he had just seen.

Masataka Yoshida hit a sayonara double into center and the Orix Buffaloes pulled the rug out from under the Tokyo Yakult Swallows with a three-run, ninth-inning rally to win Game 1 of the Japan Series 4-3 at Kyocera Dome on Saturday night.