Homers lit up the Hsinchu sky on Friday night as the Sinon Bulls outslugged the La New Bears in an 8-6 win at the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium to remain unbeaten at 3-0 in second-half action in the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
Chang “Prince of the Forest” Tai-shan twice went deep against the Bears pitchers. His first shot was good for his 200th career blast and the second, a solo shot to left, started what ended up being a three-homer sixth for the victorious Bulls.
Su Jien-rong and Chen Chih-wei also homered to give the Bulls four round-trippers in the game, while Lin Chih-sheng and Chen Chin-fong launched their fourth and eighth long balls of the year respectively to lead the Bears attack.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
Bulls starter Shen Fu-ren was credited with his third win of the year for holding the La New lineup to two runs over five innings to beat his counterpart Hsu Yu-wei, who served up five runs over five innings of work, including three homers, for his third defeat of the year.
Whales 13, Lions 1
Du Chang-wei snapped a career-worst 12-game losing skid by guiding the Chinatrust Whales to a convincing 13-1 win over the President Lions at the Taipei County Baseball Stadium in Sinjhuang on Friday night.
The tragic hero for the Whales, who had not won a game since March last year despite carrying a respectable 3.29 ERA, finally broke into the win column with six innings of one-run ball on eight hits.
Leading the attack for the Whales with three hits apiece were Carlos Villalobos, Chen Jia-hong and Lee Yi-wei, whose combined 9-for-14 hitting with seven RBIs accounted for more than half of their team’s total run production.
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