Impeccable middle-innings relief pitching kept the La New Bears at bay as the Sinon Bulls held on to beat the home team 2-1 at Chengcing Lake Baseball Field yesterday afternoon to take the three-game series by the same margin.
Tsai Ming-jin entered in the bottom of the fifth with two outs and the bases loaded to protect a 2-1 lead and got the strikeout to end the Bears’ scoring threat.
After a scoreless sixth, it was Shen Yu-jeh’s turn to shine as he overwhelmed the Bears with 1 and 2/3 innings of one-hit relief to deny them any realistic scoring chance.
Offensively for the visitors, Lin Yi-chuan’s RBI groundout followed by Chang Tai-shan’s run-scoring single in the top of the first gave them an early 2-0 lead that proved enough to muster Tsai’s first win of the year.
Failure to come up with timely hits cost the Bears the game as they batted 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position, scoring their lone run on six hits.
Elephants 8, Lions 6
Four unanswered runs by the Brother Elephants turned a two-run deficit into a win at Douliou Baseball Stadium last night, clinching the weekend series for the men in the golden uniforms 2-1.
Chen Guan-ren’s run-scoring blooper to shallow-right capped a three-run sixth to help his team reclaim a 7-6 lead right after the Elephants had given up five runs in the fifth to surrender a 4-1 cushion in a high-scoring affair.
Chou Si-chi’s sacrifice fly with runners on second and third added an insurance run for the Elephants in the top of the ninth.
Picking up his first career victory was Elephants rookie reliever Tseng Yong-da who tossed 2 and 2/3 innings of scoreless relief despite allowing four hits in his eighth appearance of the season.
Taking the loss was Tseng’s counterpart Hsu Yu-wei who gave up an unearned run in the sixth in his second defeat of the year.
Australian Alex de Minaur reached the second week of the US Open for the third year in a row with little fanfare on Saturday and said he intended to keep winning until the tournament organizers were forced to give him better billing. Despite being the eighth seed and a quarter-finalist last year at Flushing Meadows, De Minaur’s third-round match against German Daniel Altmaier was scheduled for Court 17 — the smallest of the four stadium venues in the precinct. “It is a little bit of a headscratcher for me. I’m not gonna lie,” he told reporters after progressing 6-7 (9/7), 6-3, 6-4,
Jonas Vingegaard on Tuesday claimed the overall Vuelta a Espana lead while Jay Vine earned the stage 10 victory for his second triumph of the race. Two-time Tour de France winner Vingegaard overhauled Torstein Traen’s lead to head the general classification by 26 seconds from the Norwegian, with Joao Almeida third and trailing the Dane by 38 seconds. Vine put in an unmatchable performance on the final climb to finish ahead of Spanish Movistar riders Pablo Castrillo and Javier Romo. “Back in red, I’m happy with it, it’s a beautiful jersey,” Vingegaard said. “I’m happy with how the day went,
Noah Lyles on Thursday warmed up for the upcoming athletics world championships by chasing down Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo to win the 200m at the Diamond League final. Lyles trailed Tebogo at the start, but gradually erased the deficit over the final 100m and pipped the Botswana sprinter to the line by centimeters. Lyles, the Olympic 100m champion and reigning world champion in both the 100m and 200m, clocked 19.74 seconds in a slight headwind. Tebogo was 0.02 seconds behind. It was Lyles’ sixth Diamond League title, a record for track athletes. “Six, that’s a big number,” Lyles said. “Shoot, that’s another record on
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