Lin Yi-chuan’s two-run blast capped a four-run third as the Sinon Bulls held off the Uni-President Lions in a 5-3 final at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium last night to end a two-game slide.
Last season’s Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player got hold of an offering from Lions starter Dan Reichert and deposited it into the center field seats to extend his current hitting streak to eleven straight.
Also starring for the Bulls was outfielder Yu Hsien-ming, who batted a perfect four-for-four with an RBI to help his club top the Cats.
Photo: Chan Chao-yang, Taipei Times
The Cats managed to draw first blood at the top of the second when they led off the inning with a walk and scored two batters on Kuo Jung-yo’s RBI triple to lead 1-0.
However, that lead only lasted an inning as the Bulls countered with a four-run third on the strength of a single, a double, Lin’s homer and a defensive error by the Lions that made it 4-1.
After the Cats scored their second run of the game in the fifth on Lin Chih-shiang’s bases-loaded groundout to fall within a deuce, the Bulls then reclaimed a three-run cushion with a run of their own in the bottom of the same inning.
Uni-President wasted a golden opportunity to turn the fifth into a big inning as they could only plate one run with the bases loaded and one out by hitting 0-for-three against Sinon starter Chen Huan-yang.
The missed opportunity proved costly as the Lions only scored once more against Chen through the seventh before his bullpen took over with a scoreless eighth and ninth to keep Chen’s fourth win of the year intact.
Reichert was charged with the loss despite going the distance for the Lions with five allowed runs (only one earned) on nine hits to fall to an 8-3 record for the season.
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