Slugger Lee Seung-yeop has 21 homers for the season in Japan's pro baseball league after hitting two Thursday.

The cleanup hitter for the Yomiuri Giants blasted a two-run shot in the fourth inning of an 8-to-1 win over the Yakult Orix Swallows and added a solo homer in the seventh.

Lee has hit two homers in one game for the third time this season, and is ahead by one in the homerun standings over Shuichi Murata of the Yokohama Bay Stars.

Lee has hit 14 homers in inter-league competition.