Chu Hong-seng’s walk-off single with a runner on second scored the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth as the Brother Elephants rallied from as many as seven down with eight unanswered runs to top the Sinon Bulls 13-12 at the Taipei County Baseball Stadium in Sinjhuang on Wednesday evening.
The seesaw battle that featured four lead-changes and a season-high of 35 combined hits between the two clubs saw the visiting Bulls jump 2-0 ahead in the opening frame on RBI singles by Cheng Hong-da and Hsieh “the Ugly” Jia-shien before the home Elephants fought back with a five-run second, the highlight of which was Liu Geng-hsin’s bases-clearing three-run double, that claimed a 5-2 lead.
Brother’s three-run lead lasted less than two innings with the Bulls scoring ten runs over the fourth and fifth on the strength of a three-run double by Lin Yi-chuan and back-to-back solo homers by Hsu Guo-long and Wilton Veras for a seemingly comfortable 12-5 margin.
That was when the Elephants turned their game up a notch as they chipped away at the deficit with a pair of runs in the fifth and three more in the seventh to close to within a deuce, setting the stage for an improbable comeback in a three-run ninth.
Picking up the win for the Elephants was reliever Matt Perisho who entered in the eighth and tossed one and two-thirds scoreless innings of one-hit ball to top Shoda Itsuki who served up the Elephants’ final three runs in a blown save situation.
LIONS 3, BEARS 1
Back-to-back scoring singles by Pan Wu-hsiung and Kao Guo-ching led to a two-run seventh to lift the Uni-President Lions past the La New Bears 3-1 in Kaohsiung on Tuesday, nipping a dreadful seven-game slide for the cats.
Starter Chu Wei-ming took the challenge of facing the top offense in the league head on and equaled to the task by holding the La New bats to a lone run on four hits over seven brilliant innings to earn his sixth win of the year.
US President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, is poised to make her LPGA Tour debut after receiving a sponsor invitation on Tuesday to the Nov. 13 to 16 tournament at Pelican Golf Club in Florida. “My dream has been to compete with the best in the world on the LPGA Tour,” Kai Trump said in a statement posted on the LPGA’s Web site. “This event will be an incredible experience,” she said. “I look forward [to] meeting and competing against so many of my heroes and mentors in golf as I make my LPGA Tour debut.” The 18-year-old high-school senior,
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