Makeup week continued with the Brother Elephants paying the Sinon Bulls a visit in Taichung yesterday where the Elephants prevailed 4-1 to nip a two-game skid.
Sophomore right-hander Lee Jin-mu was nearly unhittable in his best game in nearly two years, with a two-hit gem over five solid innings to earn his first win of the season.
Following Lee’s suit with four combined innings of hitless relief were Huang Jia-ming and Ryan Cullen, who retired every Bulls batter they faced to keep the first-half champions from turning the game around.
PHOTO BY LIAO HUI-TUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
The Elephants actually found themselves down 0-1 when Lee gave up a rare triple to Hsieh Ming-tsong, leading off the bottom of the third, and allowed the run to be scored on the ensuing ground-out.
The run would be the Bulls’ last as Lee cruised through the fifth unharmed, before turning the game over to his stingy bullpen to get the job done.
The Bulls’ 1-0 lead was short-lived, however, as the men in their familiar golden uniforms answered in the very next inning with three quick runs off Micheal Tejera, courtesy of three singles and an error by the Bulls defense.
The Elephants would add an insurance run off Bulls reliever Jiang Jien-ming in the sixth inning that made it 4-1 and that stood to the end to give the Elephants the win.
Three different Elephants batters had multi-hit games on the night, led by Chou Si-chi’s three-for-five outing.
Lead-off man Wang Sheng-wei also connected for a single and a double to drive in a pair of runs, while Chen Jiang-heh collected two hits, with an RBI, in a game where the Elephants simply outperformed the hosts in every facet of the game.
The loss marked the Bulls’ final contest in the first half as they wait out the next three days for the Elephants and the La New Bears to complete their three makeup games, starting with tonight’s match in Hsinchu at 6:35pm.
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