TOKYO -- The Pacific League champion Seibu Lions beat the Chiba Lotte Marines Monday in their last game of this season, but their fans were let down by Alex Cabrera's failure to break Japan's home run record.

Tom Evans drove in all the runs for Seibu with a three-run homer in the fourth inning as the Lions ended the season with a 3-2 win over the Marines in Chiba. It was the former Texas Ranger's 15th homer of this season.

Cabrera -- formerly with the Arizona Diamondbacks -- went 1-for-4, flying out twice, singling and striking out once in Monday's game.

On Oct. 2, Cabrera tied the all-time Japanese single-season record of 55 home runs, set by the legendary Sadaharu Oh in 1964 and matched by Kintetsu Buffalo Tuffy Rhodes last year.

Frustration mounted for the 30-year-old Venezuela last week, when he accused pitchers of jinxing his chances of breaking the record by throwing away from him. But in his final three games of this season he found more pitches to hit.

"It is disappointing I could not break the home run record,'' Cabrera said. "But I appreciate the pitchers contesting with me more than I thought since hitting the record of 55.''

With Monday's win, Seibu finished the regular season with a record of 90 wins, 49 losses, and a tie. It was the Pacific League's highest win total in 46 years.

In Kobe, Itsuki Shoda (9-11) tossed a shutout over the distance as the Nippon Ham Fighters blanked the Orix BlueWave 5-0.

It was three-year pro Shoda's second shutout. He gave up five hits and struck out six while walking two.

In the Central League, the Hanshin Tigers exploded for eight hits to chalk up seven runs in the second inning on their way to a 10-5 rout of the Chinichi Dragons at Koshien Stadium. It was Hanshin's last game of the year.

With the victory, Hanshin secured fourth place in the league with a record of 66 wins, 70 losses, and 4 ties.

In Hiroshima, Tetsuto Tomabechi hurled an eight-hitter over six innings to earn his fifth win this season as the Hiroshima Carp defeated the Yokohama BayStars 5-4.

Yasuhiro Oyamada, coming on in the ninth and giving up two runs, got his 30th save this season. Hiroshima had four home runs from Takashiro Arai, Itsuki Asai and Koichi Ogata.

Arai hit his 27th homer, a solo blast, in the first, followed by his 28th -- a two-run shot in the sixth. Asai slammed his eighth homer, a solo shot in the sixth and Ogata cracked his 25th homer, a solo shot in the seventh.

No other games were scheduled for Monday.