The Brother Elephants doubled up on the Sinon Bulls in a 4-2 affair at the Sinjhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei City last night to avoid being swept by the last-placed Bulls.
After falling behind by a run early in the game on a pair of base hits to the Bulls in the top of the first, Elephants starter Jim Magrane regrouped in a hurry by pitching shutout ball over the next three innings to give his offense a chance to catch up, which was exactly what they did as the men in the familiar golden uniform answered in the top of the third with a run of their own on the strength of a single by Chen Jiang-ho and an RBI double by Huang Yun-sheng to tie the game at one-all.
The Bulls managed to reclaim the lead in the fifth with a triple by Chen Chih-wei that made it 2-1, only to see the Elephants fight back with a pair of runs in the sixth, courtesy of a two-run blast by Chang Ming-yen off Sinon starter Lin Chen-hua in a 3-2 affair.
Brothers tacked on an insurance run in the eighth to conclude the scoring, thanks to an excellent effort by closer Brad Thomas, who entered with one out in the eighth and retired all five batters he faced to preserve the win for Magrane.
Suffering his ninth loss of the season was Lin, who pitched three-run ball on seven hits over 5-2/3 innings of play in a game he could have won, if his offense had provided just a tad more run support.
Lions 3, Monkeys 11
Scoring 10 or more runs for the second straight game, the Lamigo Monkeys overwhelmed the Uni-President Lions in an 11-3 final at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium last night to sweep the three-game set over the weekend.
Red-hot slugger Chen Guan-ren’s two-run double off Lions reliever Huang Chih-long capped a five-run second that spotted Monkey starter Tseng Jau-hao a generous 5-0 lead. He ended up with a perfect 3-for-3 night to give him eight hits over the weekend.
The five-run lead proved more than ample for Tseng to pick up his third victory of the season as the right-hander out of National Chiayi University worked six swift innings of two-run ball on six hits, despite serving up a solo blast to the Lions’ Pan “TAKE” Wu-hsiung in the top of the sixth.
Also starring for the Primates were Chan Chih-yao and Lin Chih-ping, who went a combined 5-for-10 with an RBI to lead a rapid-firing attack that bulldozed through the Lions’ pitching with a dozen hits before all was said and done.
TO THE TOP: After securing the international title on Saturday, Team Taiwan were to face Las Vegas to potentially win their 18th Little League World Series championship A team from Taipei’s Dong Yuan Elementary School won the Little League Baseball World Series’ international title on Saturday by defeating Aruba 1-0 in the annual baseball tournament held in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Taiwan team, competing under the name Chinese Taipei, were after press time last night to face a team from Las Vegas, Nevada, which beat a team from Fairfield, Connecticut, in the US championship 8-2. Taiwan are seeking to win their first Little League Baseball World Series title since 1996. “Really haven’t taken a moment to data dump right now on Taiwan,” Nevada manager T.J. Fescher said. “They’re a
‘CATASTROPHE’: Despite losing several key forwards in the summer transfer window, Bayern were up 3-0 in the first half before Harry Kane scored a hat-trick in the second Harry Kane hit a hat-trick, Michael Olise a double and newcomer Luis Diaz also scored as Bayern Munich made a “statement” against RB Leipzig 6-0 at home in the Bundesliga season opener on Friday. Bayern’s big-money arrivals, all brought in from the Premier League across the past three seasons, were dominant as the Bavarians begun their title defense in style. Olise scored twice in the first half, either side of a Diaz strike. Not to be outdone, Kane scored three goals in the second half — with two assists coming from Diaz, to bring Bayern’s total to 6-0. Kane told the Bundesliga
Marc Marquez continued his winning streak as he cruised to victory in the Hungarian GP sprint by two seconds on Saturday night to pad his championship lead. It was a seventh straight Sprint victory for the Spaniard, who has also won the last six longer Sunday grand prix races on his factory Ducati. Fabio Di Giannantonio, an Italian with the VR46 Ducati satellite team was a distant second at Balaton Park, followed by his team-mate and compatriot Franco Morbidelli third. Marquez, a six-time world champion, started the race from pole position. “I felt someone really close on the first corner, from there I
Russian Diana Shnaider continued her impressive winning streak in tour-level finals at the Monterrey Open on Saturday, beating compatriot Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the WTA 500 event’s final. Shnaider had little trouble in the opening set but struggled in a topsy-turvy second, as Alexandrova clinched the set’s fifth and decisive break at 5-4 to force a decider. Third-seed Shnaider carved out an advantage early on in the third set when she broke Alexandrova in the first game and held serve to go 2-0 up, an advantage she would not relinquish. World No. 12 Shnaider is now unbeaten in her last five
RSS