It took Chris Marrero just three at-bats to clear the fences in his first game with the Orix Buffaloes, but his first home run will have to wait.

In Friday's interleague game against the Chunichi Dragons, Marerro, the former San Francisco Giant and Washington Nationals outfielder overstepped home plate on what looked for all purposes like a come-from-behind two-run home run.

With no outs and a man on first, Marrero crushed a lazy 2-1 and drove it high over the center field wall at Kyocera Dome, the home park of the Pacific League's Buffaloes.

Marrero was celebrating in the dugout with his teammates, when Dragons catcher Masato Matsui signaled for an appeal play. First base umpire Fumihiro Yoshimoto called the new guy out. Marrero was credited with an RBI triple.

The lack of the run forced the teams to play extra innings until former Seattle Mariner Stefen Romero clinched it for the Buffaloes 4-2 in the 10th with a walk-off homer in which he bent down and looked intently at home base as he stepped on it dead center.

The last event of a home run spoiled by base running came on June 11, 2006, when Lee Seung Yeop of the Yomiuri Giants against his former team, the Lotte Marines. His teammate, Tatsuya Ozeki was ruled to have missed third base, was called out and Lee was credited with a single.