The Lamigo Monkeys remained unbeaten at 5-0 this season with a 9-2 victory over the Brother Elephants at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium last night.
With the game tied at 2-2, Lin Chih-sheng’s clutch single with runner on second drove in the go-ahead run in what ended up being a four-run seventh.
That was more than ample run support for Lin Jing-ming to pick up his first win of the season as the right-hander out of Fu Jen Catholic University pitched 2-1/3 innings of scoreless relief to get the job done.
                    Photo: Liao Yao-tunug, Taipei Times
The Monkeys jumped to a quick 1-0 lead in the opening inning against Elephants starter Tseng Song-wei and doubled their lead to 2-0 two innings later on the strength of Chung Cheng-yo’s RBI-single.
Held scoreless by Monkeys starter Huang Chin-chih through the fifth, the Elephant hitters finally got on the board in the sixth on Peng “Chia Chia” Cheng-min’s run-scoring single and Lin Jing-ming’s bases-loaded walk to tie the game, setting the stage for the Monkeys’ game-deciding seventh inning.
Lions 6, Bulls 1
Danel Reichert went the distance in his first start of the season for the Uni-President Lions as the Cats downed the Sinon Bulls 6-1 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium yesterday.
The American righty allowed a lone run on six hits with no walks and two strikeouts in a solid outing to help his team improve to 3-2 for the year.
Offensively for the Lions, Chu Yuan-chin’s two-for-four batting led an opportunistic lineup that took advantage of three big errors by the Sinon defense that led to four unearned runs for the Lions.
Taking the tough loss despite pitching 6-1/3 innings of four-run ball (only two earned) on six hits was Sinon starter Lin Ying-jeh, who fell to 0-2 for the season.
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