Hiroyuki Oze hit a game-tying double in the seventh inning and
Alex Cabrera broke the tie with an RBI single as Orix battled past
Rakuten in the four-run frame on the way to a rout of Rakuten at
Kleenex Stadium.
Orix piled on three runs in the eighth and pinch-hitter Kazuhiro
Kiyohara chipped in with a two-run single to put the game out of
reach in the ninth.
Ramon Ortiz (4-6) allowed two runs scattering seven hits over
seven innings. Hisashi Iwakuma pitched one-run ball over six innings
before Satoshi Nagai (6-7) took the loss. Rakuten lost its fifth
straight.
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