Pan "Du Du" Wei-luen tied the league mark for consecutive victories by pitching the President Lions to an 18-4 triumph over the Sinon Bulls in Sinjhuang on Sunday evening for his 14th-straight win.
The Lions ace continued to perform despite suffering from a shoulder injury that has kept him to no more than six innings per start since mid-May.
"The offense has really helped me out with several seven-plus run games over the course of the season," Pan said after the game.
Pan's winning streak had seemed in danger a couple of times over the past month with the pitcher ending up with a pair of no-decisions.
The Bulls actually got off to a great start by scoring off "Du Du" on a solo home run by Cheng Jau-han in the first and Cheng Da-hong's run-scoring single in the top of the second, before the Lions evened things up at 2-2 in the bottom of the second on Kao Chih-kang's two-run blast off Bulls starter Hu Jung-jeh.
After Liu Fu-hao's bases-clearing, three-run double made it 5-2 in favor of the Lions in the third, they erupted for a dozen more runs in the fifth that saw 15 hitters making their way to the plate against three different Sinon hurlers.
Six Lions hitters had multi-hit games on the night, led by Liu's perfect 3-for-3 with three RBIs while Yang Seng drove in five runs to tie a career-high.
Whales 9, Elephants 2
The Chinatrust Whales swept the two-game series against the Brother Elephants over the weekend with a convincing 9-2 win in Tianmu on Sunday to extend their winning streak to four in a row.
Chu Wei-ming pitched six solid innings of two-run ball on seven hits and Hsu Ren-jeh knocked in four runs for the Whales to move back into title contention.
The emerging Whales right-hander has won all three of his starts since leaving his usual setup man's role in the bullpen, while Hsu set a season-high in RBIs with four on the night.
Chen Jia-hong's solo home run off Elephants starter Yeh Ding-ren put the Whales ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the second before they tacked on five more runs in the next two innings, highlighted by slugger Carlos Villalobos' two-run double in a three-run third.
It was the third-straight multi-RBI game for Villalobos.
Trailing 0-6, the Elephants got on the board in the sixth on a two-run homer by Chen Chih-hong off Chu. But the Whales returned the favor with three more in the bottom of the same inning to put the game away.
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