The Chinatrust Whales started the week with a splash by topping the Brother Elephants 7-6 at the Taipei County Baseball Stadium in Sinjhuang on Tuesday after scoring three unanswered runs over the final two innings.
The win not only robbed the previously red-hot Elephants of what would have been their fourth victory in a row, but also gave Whales skipper Hsieh Chang-hen his 200th managerial victory.
The win made the former President Lions hurler and manager the first to register 100 wins (100-81) as a player and 200 as a manager.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
After falling behind 0-2 in the top of the second, the Whales fought back with four runs over the next five innings to take a 4-2 lead before the Elephants erupted offensively with a four-run seventh to take a 6-4 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh.
That set the stage for the Whales to tie the game with a pair of runs in the eighth, before winning it in the bottom of the ninth on a walk-off single by Lin Jing-chang.
Bears 7, Lions 3
Mike Johnson pitched six innings of two-run ball and Chen Chin-fong batted a perfect 3-for-3 with three RBIs to lead the La New Bears past the President Lions in a 7-3 win at the Kaohsiung County Baseball Stadium on Tuesday evening.
The showdown between the top two teams in the league went in favor of the home Bears as they scored early and often, with six runs after five innings of play en route to an impressive win over the first-half and defending champs.
Johnson also tied the Bears team mark for longest winning streak with his 12th straight win of the season as he remained unbeaten at 12-0 to lead the league in total victories.
Also starring for the Bears was slugger Lin Chih-sheng, who went deep against Lions staff ace Pan “Du Du” Wei-luen with a solo blast in the bottom of the fifth that regained the momentum for his team after the Lions had scored two in the top of the fifth to pull within two runs of the Bears at that point.
Tagged with his first loss of the year was Pan, who saw his bid to extend his winning streak to a record-breaking 22 straight halted on a night his offense failed to provide the usual run support to which he has become accustomed.
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