Erupting for 18 hits, including a pair of homers by Lin Chih-sheng and Lin Hong-yu, the La New Bears trounced the Brother Elephants 13-1 at the Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium in Tianmu yesterday.
It was the second straight day that the Bears hitters had their way against the Elephants pitching, after Friday night’s 9-1 rout at the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium, handing the struggling Elephants their fifth loss in their last six games.
After each team scored a run in the third, the Bears quickly stretched their lead with a five-run fourth, highlighted by Tsai Jien-wei’s three-run triple off Elephants starter Yeh Yong-jeh.
PHOTO: CHAN CHAO-YANG, TAIPEI TIMES
The 6-1 lead proved ample for Bears starter Huang Chin-chih, who cruised through the sixth with one allowed run on five scattered singles, before his offense poured in six more in the final two frames to help him improve to 4-2 for the year.
Taking the loss was Yeh, who lasted only four innings, allowing six runs on eight hits to drop to 0-2 for the year.
Offensively for the victorious Bears, six different hitters had multi-hit games on the night, led by Lin Chih-sheng and Lin Chih-ping’s three hits apiece.
PHOTO: WANG YI-SUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
Lions 5, Bulls 4
The Uni-President Lions took an early 5-1 lead through the fifth and survived a three-run rally by the Sinon Bulls in the eighth to win it 5-4 at the Taichung Municipal Baseball Stadium yesterday.
The Cats managed to plate a run off Sinon starter Chang Geng-hao in each of the first three frames to enjoy a 3-0 advantage, before the home Bulls answered with a run in the bottom of the third that made it 3-1.
After Marshall McDougall’s RBI double and Wang Tzu-song’s one-run single upped the Lions’ lead to a comfortable 5-1 in the fifth, the game appeared to be theirs to win, until the Bulls came back with three runs off Lions reliever Lin Cheng-fong to fall within a run of the defending champions.
That was as close as they got, as Lion closer Lin Yueh-ping came to the rescue by recording the final six outs to preserve the win.
Picking up his fourth win of the year after a dismal 1-4 start was Lions starter Pan “Du Du” Wei-luen, who was able to even his season mark at 4-4 with seven innings of one-run ball (unearned) on five hits.
Today, The Bears face the Elephants in Tianmu at 5:05pm, while the Lions take on the Bulls in Taichung at the same time.
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