Feasting off the struggling La New Bears for two straight wins to start off the week, the President Lions extended their winning streak to five games to take sole control of third place in the league standings.
Solid efforts by starters Jose Alberro of the Dominican Republic (2-0 with a 1.15 ERA during the five-game stretch), second-year right-hander Pan Wei-luen (1-0 with no earned run in the same stretch) and budding star Tseng Yi-cheng (曾翊誠) (1-0 with a 2.43 ERA for the season) were the main reason behind the Lions' five-game skid, which made things a lot easier on American ace closer Michael Garcia (converting on all three save opportunities during the five-game stretch).
Offensively for the Lions over their 5-0 run, free swinger Wang Chuang-jia led the way with a 10-for-19 hitting, knocking home five RBIs.
The Lions have not won by blowing away their opponents; instead, it was their scrappy play and some timely hitting that helped pull off the victory for manager Hsien Chang-hern.
Tuesday night's 4-2 win over the Bears in Kaohsiung was a classic example of how the Lions managed to win even when they were outhit by the Bears by a whopping 14-8 margin.
Back-to-back scoring doubles by Wang Chuang-jia and veteran slugger Luo Ming-ching with two outs in the top of the ninth scored the go-ahead runs in a game that could have been won by the Bears.
Wednesday night's 6-3 win was a 2-all contest until the top of the fifth when Luo Ming-ching took Bear starter Robert Marquez deep to right for a two-run dinger.
Elsewhere in the league, the Macoto Cobras continued their winning ways in Game 1 of their three-game series against the Chinatrust Whales by a 4-2 final on Thursday night.
Starter Kleber Ojima held the Whale lineup to two runs on six hits in as many innings before game-MVP winner Lee Ming-jing (
Leading the way for the Cobras at the plate was Hsieh Jia-hsien.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB