Consecutive wins over the league-leading Macoto Cobras earlier this week brought the President Lions to within four games of the top-ranked serpents in the latest standings.
Homers lit up the Sinjhuang sky on Wednesday as the Lions teed off on seven Cobras pitchers with four dingers in a 22-hit slugfest, highlighted by Yang Song-hsuen's grand slam off Tsai Shih-chin in an eight-run sixth, to steamroll the Cobras by a 19-6 final score.
Yang would end up with six RBIs for the night to set a new career-high in total RBIs for the speedy Lions outfielder.
The contest began with a relatively quiet first two innings where neither club was able to break through against the opposing starter.
Then came a two-run third by the Lions on Tilson Brito's two-run single with the bases loaded to give the cats a 2-0 lead.
Both clubs would trade a run in the fifth to make it 3-1 in favor of the Lions before a dynamite eight-run sixth that blew the game wide open.
After two quick outs and a pair of singles against Cobras reliever Yang Chi-jia, the Lions lineup would string together four singles, a double and a grand slam by Yang Song-hsuen to put the game out of reach for the serpents.
The Cobras would put up two meaningless runs in the bottom of the sixth to make it 11-3, only to trigger eight more runs by the Lions offense; four in the seventh and another four in the ninth.
Earning his league-leading fifth win of the season was Lions starter Pan "Du Du" Wei-luen, who threw five effective innings of one-run ball on seven hits to improve to 5-2 for the year.? The staff ace for the Lions has won five straight after starting off the season with a 0-2 mark.
Offensively for the Lions, nine different players had multi-hit games, with Liu Fu-hao connecting for three hits to lead the pack.
Lions 11, Cobras 7
Six seven-inning runs by the potent Lions attack turned a 6-4 deficit into a 10-6 lead as they held on to beat the Cobras 11-7 in Tuesday night's series-opener at Sinjhuang.
Three different Lions went deep against a struggling Cobras staff that allowed 16 total hits, capped by Kao Guo-ching's three-run blast off the Cobras' Huang Chin-chih to spark an eight-run seventh.
Rookie lefty Pan Jung-rong was credited with his first career victory on the night by tossing 3-1/3 innings of one-hit relief to keep the serpents off the board late in the game.
Bulls 10, Bears 8
Huang Chung-yi and Lin Sheng-kai made baseball history in Kaohsiung on Tuesday night by hitting a pinch-hit grand slam each in a classic seesaw battle between the Sinon Bulls and the La New Bears that ended with the Bulls winning 10-8.
Lin's pinch-hit grand slam brought the Bears back from a 5-1 deficit in the bottom of the fifth while Huang's round-tripper with the bases juiced put the visiting Bulls ahead for good in the top of the eighth.
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