The Sinon Bulls doubled up on the Lamigo Monkeys in a 10-5 final at the Taichung Municipal Baseball Stadium last night to level the weekend series at 1-1 following Friday night’s 4-1 loss.
Hsu Guo-long’s 3-for-4 hitting with three RBIs led a Sinon attack that rang up 19 hits on the night with seven different players registering multi-hit games.
Also starring for the Bulls were Lin Tsung-nan and Chen Chih-wei, who combined for seven hits and scored four times in a big day at the office.
The Monkeys jumped all over Sinon starter Lin Ying-jeh with four quick runs in the opening frame, highlighted by Shih Chih-wei’s two-run triple.
However, the Bulls got three of the runs back in the bottom of the same inning with four hits off Lamigo starter Huang Chin-chih, before tacking on two more runs in the second to skid ahead 5-4.
After the Monkeys managed to tie the game at 5-all in the top of the fourth on Chen Yen-wen’s RBI-groundout, the Bulls erupted for half a dozen hits in the bottom of the same inning to plate five runs that made it 10-5.
That was more than ample for Sinon reliever Chen Huan-yang, who entered in the top of the first to relieve Lin Ying-jeh with six-and-a-third innings of one-run ball to pick up his first career victory.
Taking the loss for the Monkeys was Huang, who failed to take advantage of an early lead that his fellow hitters had spotted him by allowing eight runs on 11 hits over six-and-a-third innings of work.
LIONS 12, ELEPHANTS 8
Kao Guo-ching’s RBI-double capped a three-run eighth as the Uni-President Lions scored a dozen to defeat the Brother Elephants 12-8 at the Kaohsiung County Baseball Stadium last night.
The Lions scored the game’s first six runs over the first three innings only to fall behind by one by the end of the fifth to a diehard Elephants lineup.
After Chen Yong-chi and Chang “OEO” Tai-shan drove in a pair of runs in the sixth that gave the Big Cats an 8-7 advantage, it was the Elephants who forced an 8-all tie in the seventh. This set the stage for the Lions’ game-clinching three runs in the eighth.
Lions reliever Lin Cheng-fong was credited with the win, while the loss was charged against his counterpart Lin Fong-hua.
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