The Yokohama BayStars got the performances they needed at the plate and on the mound to beat the Yomiuri Giants.
They just didn¡¯t get them early enough.
Yomiuri¡¯s C.C. Mercedes pitched into the seventh, Yasuhiro Yamamoto drove in a pair of runs and Yomiuri stamped out a ninth-inning rally to beat the reeling BayStars 5-4 in front of a crowd of 43,766 on Saturday afternoon at Tokyo Dome.
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