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Bulls snap losing skid, beat Whales

The Sinon Bulls snapped a five-game losing streak with a narrow 6-5 win over the Chinatrust Whales in Taichung on Tuesday evening, thanks to a three-run homer by Hsu Guo-long and seven solid innings of work from starter Alfredo Gonzalez.

Outfielders Yu Hsien-ming and Tseng Hua-wei also hit back-to-back scoring singles in the bottom of the sixth inning. This proved to be the difference between the two teams, as the Bulls held off an eighth-inning rally to claim the much-needed victory.

Gee Jung-lin led off the top of the first with a single to left field and scored two outs later on Carlos Villalobos' opposite-field single to give the Whales a 1-0 lead.

This lasted less than an inning, as the Bulls answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the second on Wu Bo-hong's RBI single to even things up before the Whales reclaimed the lead in the top of the third on an RBI groundout by Villalobos.

Hsu's three-run shot off Whales starter Shen Yu-jeh in the bottom of the inning then put the Bulls ahead 4-2, only to see the Whales force the third tie of the game in the fourth on Hsu Ren-jeh's one-run single and a failed double-play attempt by the Sinon defense that scored the tying run for the Whales.

The score stayed 4-4 over the next two innings until the Bulls broke loose for a pair of runs in the sixth on Yu Hsien-ming and Tseng's timely single with runners in scoring positions.

The Whales managed to pull within a run of the Bulls in the eighth on Chen Jien-wei's RBI single with two outs off Bulls reliever Kuo Yong-chih. But that was as close as they got as Kuo retired the next four to preserve the win.

Picking up the close victory for the home Bulls was starter Gonzalez, who improved to an even 5-5 for the year. Gonzalez allowed four runs on six hits to beat Whales reliever Du Chang-wei, who allowed the game-winning runs in the sixth to drop to a 1-6 mark for the year.

Lions 13, Cobras 4

Tilson Brito continued his red-hot home run streak with a towering three-run blast off Jeremy Hill in the third to extend his homer streak to a record-setting seven straight games in the 13-4 Lions win over the Macoto Cobras in on Tuesday night.

The homer by the Dominican slugger was his 23rd in just 57 games, setting a new league record for earliest a player has hit 23 homers in a season.

Fellow Lions Yang Seng and Pan Wu-hsiung also went deep against the Cobras pitching on the night with the former hitting his third homer of the year. Yang hit a grand slam off Hill and Pan slammed Cobras reliever Chen Jia-hong to put the game beyond doubt long before the final out.

Offensively for the Cobras, Dutchman Ivanon Coffie's two-run blast off Munro was the lone highlight for the visitors as they were outplayed by the Lions in every aspect of the game.
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