Pan "Du Du" Wei-luen pitched six innings of two-run ball and Kao Guo-ching went 4-for-6 with a home run and three RBIs to lead the President Lions past the Macoto Cobras in a 20-3 blowout at Tainan on Saturday evening.
The Lions ace has won eight straight after starting off the season with a 0-2 record to lead the league in total victories.
"The ten runs that our guys got in the early going really helped me out a lot," a modest Du Du said after the game, giving all the credit to his offense for his league-leading eighth win of the year.
His team's offense, which has averaged nearly ten runs per contest (9.4) during the Lions' last 10 games, has indeed played its part in helping them surge from last-place in the standings to second.
This is in no small measure thanks to the red-hot hitting of Kao, who has strung together an impressive 18-game hitting streak with an outstanding .382 batting average.
The highly anticipated game after the recent wet weather was all-Lions from the get go as they broke loose for six runs in the fourth after grabbing an early 4-1 lead in the third to claim a commanding 10-1 advantage.
Tilso Brito's towering three-run blast off Cobras reliever Yang Chi-jia sparked the big inning for the home side in which they batted around the order against two different Macoto pitchers.
The Lions were not finished as they added six more runs in an explosive sixth, led by Kao's monster three-run shot over the centerfield wall to blow the game wide open.
Leading 17-2 after six frames, the final three innings were a formality as both teams used reserves in the interest of conserving energy for the make-up games ahead.
The recent the wet weather has led to a record-high 18 make-up games thus far.
The 20 runs racked up by the Lions tied a club mark for most runs in a game while the 20-3 margin was the Cobras worst-ever defeat.
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