Baseball: Kondo Circuit beats Lions as last-place fighters play spoiler

Kensuke Kondo hit a game-breaking 10th-inning homer to lift the last-placed Nippon Ham Fighters to a 2-1 Pacific League victory over the contending Seibu Lions on Saturday. Before 27,516 at the Belluna Dome in Saitama Prefecture outside Tokyo, Kondo homered with two out against Seibu’s fifth pitcher, Tatsushi Masuda (2-4). Masuda made 29 saves this season, but allowed two homers in his last game. Kondo, whose eighth-inning RBI brace broke a scoreless tie, drove a 1-1 Masuda curve well into the right field stands in the 10th for his seventh home run. “With two outs, I had something big…