Kuo Yi-fong’s two-run homer sparked a three-run seventh and Tsao Jung-yang pitched a scoreless ninth, despite allowing a pair of hits, as the Brother Elephants held on to defeat the Uni-President Lions 3-2 at the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium on Wednesday to start the week with a big win.
What had been a defensive struggle with the Lions clinging onto a narrow 1-0 lead, suddenly turned in favor of the visiting Elephants as they broke through against the Lions’ pitching in the seventh on Kuo’s two-run blast, before Wang Shen-wei added an RBI single to give his team a 3-1 lead.
The run driven in by Wang proved to be the difference as the Lions scored a run in the eighth that made it 3-2 and had a tying run in scoring position in the bottom of the ninth before Tsao retired the final Lions hitter on a strikeout to save the game.
Picking up the win for the Elephants was starter Liu Yu-chan who held a potent Lions offense to a lone run on five hits over six innings in his best outing of the year. The converted starter who had spent the previous nine seasons with the former Chinatrust Whales, primarily in a reliever’s role, had not won a start since beating the Sinon Bulls on Sept. 30, 2000.
Suffering the loss was Lions reliever Kao Jien-san who served up Kuo’s homer to blow his first save of the year in 16 game appearances.BULLS 12, BEARS 5
Shoda Itsuki went the distance for the Sinon Bulls as they humbled the La New Bears at the Kaohsiung County Baseball Stadium on Tuesday.
The Japanese native, who also earned a complete-game win against the Lions two weeks ago, remained the only pitcher in the league to have gone the distance for his team during the first two months of play.
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