As the customary day off, Monday is typically a slow day around NPB, and though the Orix Buffaloes and Lotte Marines played a makeup game, their offenses took the last eight innings off.

Pacific League

Buffaloes 2, Marines 2, 12 innings

At Zozo Marine Stadium, Lotte’s Leonys Martin hit a two-run home run in the first inning, giving him one every 13.4 at-bats in his so-far brief NPB career. Orix tied it in the second on three singles and an error by Lotte shortstop Yudai Fujioka.

The two teams combined to put nine runners on base over the final eight innings and the game was called after the maximum four extra innings and declared a tie.

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Romero suffering from knee inflammation

Orix Buffaloes slugger Stefen Romero was diagnosed with inflammation in his right knee at a hospital in Chiba on Sunday. He felt pain in the knee running the bases on Sunday, but manager Norifumi Nishimura said he didn’t expect Romero to be sidelined for even 10 days — the number days he would be forced off the active roster if he were deactivated.