Taking all of an offering from Uni-President Lions reliever Kao Jien-san, Manny Ramirez hit the ball over the center-field wall at the Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium last night for his first homer since arriving in Taiwan.
Even though the two-run shot did not help Ramirez’s EDA Rhinos win the game — they lost 10-7 — he did come away with the distinction of hitting the league’s 7,000th home run.
“Wow, I didn’t know about [it being the 7,000th homer], it’s great,” he said after the game.
Photo: Huang Chih-yuan, Taipei Times
The former major league MVP drove in three runs on a three-for-four night in his best outing of the season so far.
A seven-run fifth by the Lions made the difference in the game as it turned a 1-2 deficit into an 8-2 advantage, a lead the hosts would not relinquish to win their seventh game of the year.
ELEPHANTS 4, MONKEYS 2
Chang Chih-hao’s two-run blast off Ben Snyder in the top of the 10th put the Brother Elephants ahead 4-2, and they held on to win by the same margin at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium last night to claim their second straight victory.
The Greek basketball league finals between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos were suspended by the government on Monday following on-court scuffles involving rival security teams. The best-of-five series is at 1-1. The third game, scheduled for today, has been postponed. The owners of both clubs were summoned to meet with the country’s sports minister. They “will be asked to provide explicit guarantees that this situation will be brought to an end. If not, this year’s championship will be definitively canceled,” government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said. “There can be no tolerance for such pathological phenomena of violence and delinquency.” In online posts, the owners of Panathinaikos and
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Ryan Yarbrough picked up a dazzling World Series ring from his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers last season. Then he went out and beat them. The New York Yankees starter on Sunday pitched one-run ball over six innings, struck out a season-high five and blanked the Dodgers’ top four hitters in a 7-3 win. “I feel like I’m in a really good place right now and really trying to continue that,” Yarbrough said. “I’m having a lot of fun.” The 33-year-old left-hander made 44 relief appearances between the Dodgers and Blue Jays last season. The Dodgers designated him for assignment on July
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