Jason Standridge threw a four-hit shutout to lead the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks to their third consecutive win in a 2-0 victory over the Seibu Lions on Saturday.

Standridge (2-0) struck out three and walked one in a 115-pitch outing and didn’t allow a runner to reach third base at Seibu Prince Dome. He pitched his seventh career shutout in Japanese baseball.

Yuki Yanagita had a one-out double in the fourth and came around to score on a throwing error by outfielder Shogo Akiyama when Seiichi Uchikawa flied out to center. Yuya Hasegawa added an RBI groundout to cap the scoring in the seventh.

Ryoma Nogami (1-1) yielded one unearned run in five innings of the loss.

Seibu slipped to its second straight defeat after starting the regular season 5-0.

Fighters 4, Buffaloes 2

At Osaka’s Kyocera Dome, Shohei Otani (2-0) pitched two-run ball over seven innings and struck out 11 as Hokkaido Nippon Ham rallied from an early deficit over Orix, featuring Brandon Laird’s two-run tiebreaking single in the seventh inning.

Marines 3, Eagles 1

At Chiba’s QVC Marine Field, Luis Cruz keyed a three-run first with a two-run double off Takahiro Norimoto (0-2), Hideaki Wakui (2-0) won his first complete game in two seasons and Chiba Lotte sent Tohoku Rakuten to its fourth loss in a row.

CENTRAL LEAGUE

Swallows 6, BayStars 2

At Yokohama Stadium, Tsuyoshi Ueda hit a tiebreaking RBI triple as Yakult rallied past Yokohama for its third straight win.

Yuhei Takai’s two-run infield single sealed the victory in the ninth.

Dragons 3, Carp 0

At Nagoya Dome, Yohei Oshima had a two-run double off Hiroshima starter Hiroki Kuroda (1-1) in a three-run fifth inning as Chunichi won its fifth in a row and sent the former Yankee pitcher to his first defeat since returning to Japan.

The Carp lost their fifth straight.

Giants 9, Tigers 5

At Tokyo Dome, Shinnosuke Abe had a sixth-inning, tiebreaking RBI single and Yomiuri batted around to widen the gap in the six-run frame en route to beating rival Hanshin.