Cory Bailey pitched seven strong innings of shutout ball and Chou Si-chi went 2-for-3 with an RBI as the dmedia T-Rex humbled the Sinon Bulls 5-0 at the Taichung Municipal Baseball Stadium on Tuesday night to win their fourth straight game.
The win was especially sweet for the T-Rex considering the fact they recently swept the league-leading La New Bears over a three-game stretch and faced a hostile Taichung ballpark where the Bulls definitely had the crowd on their side.
Dmedia wasted little time getting to Bulls starter Yu Wen-pin with a quick run in the opening frame when Chou drew a leadoff walk off Yu and scored on a double-steal that worked to perfection two outs later.
PHOTO: LIAO YAO-TUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
The T-Rex would lead it 3-0 an inning later on a wild pitch by Yu that scored the runner from third before Chou’s double split the right-center gap and knocked in the third run of the game for his team.
That was more than ample for Bailey as he breezed through the seventh, allowing two Sinon runners to reach second over five scattered hits before turning the game to fellow reliever Lin Jing-min, who rewarded his starter with two scoreless innings of one-hit relief to keep the shutout victory intact.
The win by the T-Rex set a new club record for longest winning streak as they hoped to continue their success in Game 2 of the weekly series yesterday.
WHALES 6, ELEPHANTS 5, 10 INNINGS
Chen Jia-hong’s two-out single with a man on third scored the winning run in the top of the 10th as the Chinatrust Whales edged past the Brother Elephants 6-5 at the Taipei County Baseball Stadium in Sinjhuang on Tuesday to kick off the week with a bang.
The extra-inning win avoided what would have been an embarrassing loss for the marine creatures who jumped to a seemingly comfortable 5-1 lead after the fourth highlighted by a pair of two-run base hits from Wang Hsin-min and Lin Ching-chang before giving up four unanswered runs to send the game into extra innings.
Trailing 1-5, the Elephants managed to fall within a run in the bottom of the fifth with three runs off Whales starter Lorenzo Barcelo on the strength of run-scoring singles by Chen “Golden Warrior” Chih-yuan, Wang Sheng-wei, and Peng “Chia Chia” Cheng-min.
They would tie the game up at 5-all with a run in the bottom of the ninth on a wild pitch by reliever Steve Watkins to force the game into extra session only to lose it on Chen Jia-hong’s late-inning heroics.
Picking up the surprising win despite blowing the save opportunity was Watkins who tossed three innings of two-hit ball to improve to 5-10 for the year.
Suffering a tough loss was his counterpart Mai Jia-rei, who dropped to 3-6 for the year for allowing the winning-run to reach via a walk in the top of the 10th.
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