Article: Ochoa lifts Chunichi over Yomiuri with three-run homer


AP Worldstream
04-07-2004
Dateline: TOKYO
Alex Ochoa connected for a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday to lift the Chunichi Dragons to a 5-3 victory over the Yomiuri Giants.

Ochoa's two-out homer to left field off Yomiuri reliever Yukinaga Maeda at Nagoya Dome gave the Dragons a dramatic come-from-behind victory.

Yomiuri's Roberto Patagine hit a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning off Hitoki Iwase to give the Giants a 3-1 lead. The Dragons scored a run off Yomiuri reliever Brian Sikorski before Ochoa's walkoff homer.

Chunichi starter Domingo Guzman, who joined the Dragons in the offseason after spending a year with the Yokohama Baystars, tossed a ...

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