Yuta Omine escaped a first-inning jam to go eight innings and earn the win as the Chiba Lotte Marines routed the Seibu Lions 11-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Omine (2-1) allowed a run on four hits, four walks and a hit batsman, while striking out two before 20,860 at sunny QVC Marine Field as Lotte thumped the Lions for the second straight day.

Homers by Luis Cruz and Alfredo Despaigne highlighted Lotte’s five-run first against Taiwan right-hander Kuo Chun-lin (2-3). Ikuhiro Kiyota, Daichi Suzuki and Katsuya Kakunaka opened the inning with three straight singles to give the Marines a 1-0 lead.

Cruz then drilled a 2-0 slider in the heart of the zone from Kuo into the left-field stands for his eighth home run to make it 4-0. With one out, Despaigne reached the seats to cap the inning.

“It’s really funny, because I was thinking he’d throw me fastball, slider, slider and that’s exactly how it happened,” said Cruz.

It was a huge turnaround for the Marines after Omine loaded the bases in the first with three, one-out walks. The right-hander got out of the jaml, however, when slugger Ernesto Mejia rolled over a high first-pitch forkball to second base, where Omine’s younger brother Shota started an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play.

“I started out being too concerned about that big lineup of theirs,” Yuta Omine said. “As the game went on, if I fell behind I went after them in the zone.

“On the double play ball, I was trying to go down in the zone, get a ground ball or a foul and it got away from me.”

Mejia said it was a good lesson.

“I just missed it,” Mejia said. “That’s why you have to be prepared from the first pitch. That was the ballgame.”

Kuo, who surrendered five runs on six hits, was gone after a scoreless second in which Lotte batters hit some dangerous drives to the warning track in right.

His replacement, Toshihiro Iwao, yielded a run in the third when Shota Omine plated Cruz with a two-out, bases-loaded single, and two more in the fourth.

After putting two on with two out in the fourth, Iwao was pulled for Atsushi Okamoto, who pitched around Despaigne but allowed Kazuya Fukuura’s bases-loaded single that brought in two runs.

The Marines added another in the fifth on a Kiyota RBI single, but it seemed superfluous with Yuta Omine in complete command. After having precious little control through the first two innings, he began locating his fastball and everything fell into place.

When the Lions threatened to erase some of the Marines’ early gains with two on and one out in the second, Omine retired nine straight before allowing a ground single in the fifth.

The hosts piled on two more runs in the sixth against lefty Hirotaka Koishi on an RBI double by Despaigne and a groundout to make it 11-0 as both teams went to the bench to give their reserves playing time.

Seibu’s Hideto Asamura homered with two outs in the eighth.

Hawks 10, Eagles 1

At Fukuoka’s Yafuoku Dome, Jason Standridge (4-2) allowed a run in eight innings and Lee Dae-ho homered for the fourth straight game with a three-run blast as Fukuoka Softbank mauled Tohoku Rakuten.

Buffaloes 6, Fighters 1

At Osaka’s Kyocera Dome, Yuki Nishi (1-2) changed speeds effectively, allowing a run in seven innings, and Francisco Caraballo homered for the third straight game as Orix whipped Hokkaido Nippon Ham.

CENTRAL LEAGUE

Dragons 6, Swallows 4

At Akita’s Komachi Stadium, Hector Luna hit a two-run homer in a four-run third as Chunichi handed Tokyo Yakult its season-worst fifth straight loss.

BayStars 4, Giants 2

At Niigata’s Hard Off Eco Stadium, rookie Toshihiko Kuramoto broke a 2-2 tie with an eighth-inning RBI single as Yokohama defeated Yomiuri, handing first-year starter Hayato Takagi (5-1) his first career defeat.

Carp 7, Tigers 2

At Koshien Stadium, Yuya Fukui (2-1) allowed a run in seven innings as Hiroshima beat Hanshin right-hander Randy Messenger (2-5) to win its sixth straight game.