Peng "Chia Chia" Cheng-min hit his league-leading ninth long ball of the season in the seventh to become the fastest local player to hit nine homers this far into the season (21 games). Next in line for the veteran Elephants slugger will be the fastest to reach the ten-homer plateau record at 23 game, which was set by Jay Kirkpatrick of the Sinon Bulls in 1998.
Elephants 0, Lions 1
Pete Munro recorded his first shutout win of the season by tossing a two-hit gem for the Lions in their 1-0 blanking of the Elephants at Tainan on Thursday night.
The righty also went the distance for the home Lions on just 88 pitches to give the shorthanded Lions staff some much needed rest.
The classic pitchers' duel between Munro and Nick Bierbrodt had both clubs trading zeros on the scoreboard for seven straight innings until the Elephants finally scored the game's only run in the top of the eighth on Chen Lien-hong's sacrifice-fly off game-loser Wang Jing-li that scored the runner from third.
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