Chang Chien-ming’s RBI single capped a four-run eighth as the EDA Rhinos blew a 3-2 game wide open to run away with a 7-3 CPBL win over the Lamigo Monkeys at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium last night.
The victory not only stretched the league-leading Rhinos’ current win streak to six, but also kept their lead over the second-placed Uni-President Lions at 1.5 games, after the Cats also won their game against the Brother Elephants yesterday.
Back-to-back doubles by Cheng Da-hung and Hu Chin-lung off Lamigo starter Wang Fong-hsin got the visiting Rhinos on the board in the opening frame. However, the Primates fought back with a run of their own in the bottom of the third, courtesy of Chen Chin-fong’s RBI double off Rhino starter Yang Chien-fu.
The Rhinos went ahead again in the fifth with Hu’s second run-scoring hit, only for the Monkeys to reply in the sixth, when Kuo Hso-wei’s single scored the runner from third to tie the game at 2-2.
EDA skidded ahead in the seventh with Chang Chien-ming’s sacrifice fly that made it 3-2 before plating four more in the decisive eighth to pull away with the win.
LIONS 7, ELEPHANTS 2 (11TH)
Chang “OEO” Tai-shan’s grand slam off Brother Elephants reliever Cheng Chi-hung in the top of the 11th helped the Uni-President Lions to victory at the Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium in Tianmu last night, extending their win streak to three.
The Elephants took a 2-0 lead one out into the eighth, before Chen Yung-chi broke through with a run-scoring single off Elephant reliever Hiroki Sanada to make it 2-1 before Chang’s game-tying double.
That was the spark the Lions needed to erupt for five runs in the 11th to secure the victory.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
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