for Miyamoto. Miyamoto proceeded to collect his third hit of the game, this time a single, to put runners on first and second with one out. Guiel was then able to move over to third on a Tanaka fly ball to deep right. But Noguchi also hit a fly ball to right to end the threat and strand both of the runners.

Yoshimura led off the Baystars seventh with his first hit of the game to put a runner on first with no outs. In the subsequent Ishikawa-Ishikawa matchup, a liner right back at the pitcher ended up hitting him on the wrist (glove hand), and while he was able to get the runner at first, there was a bit of a scare as he had to go getbeaning one each, and tossing a single wild pitch for good measure. He didn’t factor in the decision, but his ERA grew to 3.75.

Yoshikawa (1.93) was called in to handle the mess with two outs. Uchikawa did what they pay him for, and he tied the game with a bouncer up the middle to tie the game at five all.

And with the left-handed Johnson at the plate, Yoshikawa was pulled in favor of Mr. Lee (3.19) who is a southpaw. With runners again on the corners, Johnson walked on five pitches. With the bases loaded, and Lee still pitching, Saeki mercifully grounded out to second to stop the bleeding and make sure that Ishikawa didn’t leave with a loss.

Aikawa started the Swallows eighth with a fly ball to