03/30/2008 Orix Buffaloes 4, Chiba Lotte Marines 1

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as Orix snapped a four-game losing skid with a win over Lotte. Tied 1-1 with two out in the eighth, Abe singled up the middle and Rhodes went deep off submarine hurler Shunsuke Watanabe (1-1) over the center-field wall for his first home run this season. Hidetaka Kawagoe (1-0) held the damage to one run yielding eight hits in seven innings and Daisuke Kato picked up his fourth save after working the ninth. ... baseball npb orix buffaloes 野球 オリックス バファローズ 川越英隆 阿部真宏 タフィ ...