Baseball: Woods goes deep twice as Dragons burn Giants

Tyrone Woods stole the show with a pair of two-run homers Sunday as the Chunichi Dragons handed the Central League leading Yomiuri Giants a 7-2 defeat.

Woods broke a 1-1 tie with his first shot to the stands in right in the third and went deep to the same direction with two out in the sixth, staking Chunichi to a 6-2 lead at Nagoya Dome with homers No. 28 and 29 of the season.

Kenichi Nakata (9-6) went the distance in his fourth complete game of the season, allowing two runs and eight hits with 10 strikeouts and one walk and posted a career-high ninth win. Satoshi Fukuda (5-5) took the loss.

Nakata, who drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the first to tie it, added a squeeze bunt to cap the scoring in the seventh. Lee Byung Kyu chipped in with a solo blast in the fourth.

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Carp 7, Swallows 5

Hiroshima rallied from one run down in the eighth, featuring Alex Ochoa's go-ahead two-run double in a win over Yakult at Hiroshima Stadium.

Ochoa doubled down the left-field line to turn a 5-4 deficit into a 6-5 lead and Hiroshima added a run on a wild pitch by reliever Masahiro Yoshikawa.

Tomohiro Umetsu ((2-2) got the win in relief and Katsuhiro Nagakawa worked the ninth for his 20th save. Masataka Endo (2-5) was charged with the loss.

Aaron Guiel had a two-run drive followed by Masakazu Fukukawa's three-run shot that put Yakult ahead 5-2 in the sixth before Hiroshima's rally.

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Tigers 5, BayStars 1

Atsushi Nomi threw one-run ball over six strong innings and Lin Wei-zhu hit a three-run homer as Hanshin downed Yokohama.

Nomi (2-3) allowed five hits with five strikeouts and no walks to win his first decision since April 7 and the relay team of Tomoyuki Kubota, Jeff Williams and Kyuji Fujikawa held Yokohama to one hit the rest of the way at Yokohama Stadium.

Lin gave Hanshin a 4-0 lead with his shot off Yuji Hata (1-1) in the fourth and Tomoaki Kanemoto added insurance with a run-scoring single in the eighth.