Roki Sasaki, Leo Cedeno, and Munetaka Murakami, Hideto Asamura, rookie Shota Morishita and Hiroshima’s Masato Morishita all delivered the goods on an electrifying night in Japanese pro baseball on Tuesday.

Carp 2, Giants 0: At Tokyo Dome, Masato Morishita (5-2) threw a 109-pitch shutout, and Kaito Kozono hit a two-run fifth-inning homer off Yomiuri’s Foster Griffin (4-5).

Tigers 5, Deniers 4: At Koshien Stadium, rookie Shota Morishita saved the Tigers for the second time in three games with a big home run. His solo homer Sunday decided a 1-0 game. He reached base four times in Tuesday’s 7-2 win and tied it Wednesday with a two-run eighth-inning homer off Trevor Bauer before walking it off with a ninth-inning sacrifice fly.

Swallows 8, Dragons 5: At Jingu Stadium, Chunichi took a 5-4 sixth-inning lead in a game that looked like a mirror of Yakult’s first half, lots of runs allowed, some runs scored and a deficit for the Swallows. In the home half, the game morphed into a flashback of 2023, as Munetaka Murakami crushed a Daisuke Sobue fastball (3-5) for a three-run homer, Murakami’s 13^th, and demolished a lazy slider for his 14^th home run in the eighth. Kazuto Taguchi then recorded his 20^th save.

Chunichi’s Takaya Ishikawa hit his 9^th home run, and his third in two games.

Swallows-Dragons highlights

Marines 5, Buffaloes 3: At Osaka Dome, Roki Sasaki (7-2) struck out a season-high 15 and matched his fastest pitch of the season, 165 kph, allowed a run on three hits over seven innings.

Katsuya Kakunaka drove in three runs against an Orix on a bullpen day, while Leo Cedeno doubled in a run off the wall against Sasaki, and singled in an eighth-inning run before Naoya Masuda notched his 22^nd save.

Lions 4, Hawks 2: At Kitakyushu, Tatsuya Imai (4-2) allowed two runs over seven innings, and Sosuke Genda had a hand in all three ninth-inning outs as Tatsushi Masuda saved his 22^nd game, and the Hawks dropped their fifth straight.

Eagles 4, Fighters 3: At Kitahiroshima Taxpayers Burden Field, Rakuten’s Yuya Ogo homered for the second straight game, and Hideto Asamura homered for the third time in three games, with a tie-breaking two-run shot off Hiromi Ito (5-5) to take over the PL lead with his 16^th. Yuki Matsui saved his 20^th game.