Chinese Professional Baseball League Pitcher of the Month Lin Ying-jeh (
The 23-year-old Taitung native allowed five hits in eight innings and struck out 11 to add to his league-leading total to 74 in the 2-0 shutout victory, his first of the season.
Providing the power on offense was Dominican slugger Willis Otanez, whose solo blast in the top of the third off fellow countryman Lions starter Jose Alberro to deep left was the difference in the game.
Cobras closer Huang Chin-chih (
Huang had not looked sharp for three straight games and might have been affected by the tough extra-inning loss to the Lions on Thursday night.
The serpents' bid to tie the series at 2-all fell short in Sunday's series finale as four early runs surrendered by starter Delvis Pacheco proved three too many for the Cobra offense to overcome.
The final score of 6-3 in favor of the big cats gave them a 3-1 margin for the series against the Cobras and a half-game lead over them for the second-place spot in league standings.
LIONS VERSUS ELEPHANTS
Lions starter Pan Wei-luen (
The Rookie of the Year winner from last season currently shares the lead for most wins with two Brother Elephant hurlers: former Major Leaguer Jonathan Hurst and Japanese veteran Nakagomi Sin.
Offensively for the Lions, longstanding hitting icon Luo Ming-ching (
After winning Game 1 on Thursday night with third baseman Chen Huai-shan's (
The solo blast, Chen's second of the season, more than made up for his missing a sacrifice bunt sign earlier in the game that led to the runner being called out at third.
The Elephants avenged their one-run loss on Saturday with a 4-1 triumph in front of a Tienmu crowd of 3,500 to take their fifth series in a row.
Three near-fatal errors by the Elephant defense put runners in scoring position against starter Hurst, but the American veteran would come up with key strikeouts on more than one occasion to strand the runners.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
Rafael Nadal on Wednesday said the upcoming French Open would be the moment to “give everything and die” on the court after his comeback from injury in Barcelona was curtailed by Alex de Minaur. The 22-time Grand Slam title winner, back playing this week after three months on the sidelines, battled well, but eventually crumbled 7-5, 6-1 against the world No. 11 from Australia in the second round. Nadal, 37, who missed virtually all of last season, is hoping to compete at the French Open next month where he is the record 14-time champion. The Spaniard said the clash with De Minaur was
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but