Kobayashi Ryokan pitched his best game since joining the Brother Elephants at the start of this season by going the distance in an impressive 6-0 shutout win over the Sinon Bulls at Douliou on Friday to record his first win in Taiwan.
The longtime minor league prospect of Japan’s Chunichi Dragons and the Lotte Marines who signed with the Elephant during the offseason for chance to star in Taiwan finally delivered what the Elephants had been looking for from him in a two-hit gem to silence his critics. He also gave an overworked Brother bullpen some much needed rest as they played their fourth game in five days.
A 6-0 lead was more than ample for Kobayashi as he shut down the Bulls offense by tossing a no-hit ball from the fifth inning on to pick up the impressive win.
Lions 13, T-Rex 4
Scoring early and often, the President Lions mowed over the dmedia T-Rex by racking up eleven runs over the first four innings en route to a 13-4 win in Tainan on Friday night.
The home cats wasted little time getting to T-Rex starter Michael Christopher with a first-inning run off the US right-hander before piling on the runs over the next three innings with two in the second, five in the third and three more in the fourth to blow the game wide open.
Lions outfielder Kuo Dai-chi ended his career-night by going 3-for-4 with four RBIs to lead a tenacious attack that ripped 13 hits off four different dmedia pitchers.
Last season’s Rookie-of-the-Year winner Pan Wu-hsiung of the Lions also exploded for three hits on the night with a pair of RBIs to come out of a recent slump that had kept his average to a .268.
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