Yadil Mujica’s walk-off single with runner in scoring position scored the game-winner in the bottom of the 10th as Veetime of Greater Taichung shook off a near-collapse late in the game to top Taitung’s Chii Lih Coral 9-8 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium yesterday afternoon.
Fresh off a late-game collapse the night before that cost them the game in a 6-4 loss, Veetime seemed doomed again as they squandered an 8-4 lead by allowing four runs to Chii Lih Coral in the top of the eighth that made it 8-all.
However, after a scoreless ninth that sent the game into extra innings, Veetime made sure Chii Lih would not have the last laugh as Mujica came up big with a clutch hit to lift his club past their opponents.
The win not only avoided a clean sweep by Chii Lih in the three-game set over the weekend, but also brought Veetime out of the cellar in the standings as they traded places with Chii Lih with a half-game differential.
Veetime wasted multi-run leads twice in the game by allowing Chii Lih to come back from a three-run deficit in the third before the four-run eighth in a game that featured a pinch-hit home run by Chii Lih’s Chen Chih-shiang and a bases-clearing double by Chii Lih’s Chen Chun-sho.
“We still need to work on keeping leads when we do get them,” Veetime skipper Tseng Hua-wei said after the game.
His club has had their share of tough losses with a bullpen that had been shaky at times.
Picking up the win with 2-2/3 innings of relief was Lee Kang-sheng, while the loss was charged against Chii Lih Coral’s Chen Chih-wei.
Taiwan Cooperative Bank 6 National Sports Training Center 6 (5th)
Taiwan Cooperative Bank avoided a loss by plating three in the top of the fifth to settle for a 6-all tie in a rain-shortened game against the National Sports Training Center at the Taichung Municipal Baseball Stadium yesterday afternoon.
National Sports Training Center drew first blood with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second when Luo Kuen doubled in two runs off Banker starter Wu Wei-hua.
However, the lead proved short-lived as the Bankers returned the favor in the very next inning with two runs of their own in the top of the third and actually led it briefly at 3-2 before serving up four runs in the bottom of the fourth to trail the Trainers 6-3.
That set up a three-run fifth that came just in time as a sudden downpour at the end of the fifth forced the game official to call off the game and end it in a 6-all draw.
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