The Topco Scientific Falcons needed 11 innings to escape with a 3-2 win over Taichung’s Veetime at the Chiayi Municipal Baseball Stadium yesterday afternoon to up their current win streak to eight games.
Kalian Sams’ walk-off single in the bottom of the eleventh scored the game-winner for the Falcons as they topped Veetime by a lone run for the second straight day.
In a classic pitchers’ duel between the Falcons’ Amaury Rivas and Veetime’s Hsu Chi-ren, the Falcons managed to grab a quick 1-0 lead with Yang Dai-yun homering off Hsu in the bottom of the second.
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However, the visitors fought back with two runs of their own two innings when Yadil Mujica drove in his team’s first run with a single off Rivas and scored two batters later on Jorge Jimenez’s sharply hit double.
The 2-1 Veetime lead lasted late into the game with neither offense able to cross the plate again until Fong Chien-ting’s timely single off reliever Chiang Chung-cheng knocked in Yen Sheng-hsian from second to tie the game at 2-all in the bottom of the eighth, sending the game into extra innings for the eventual Falcon victory.
“This is how the game goes sometimes, we just kept on fighting until the ball rolled our way,” Falcon manager Luo Guo-chang said after the game.
His troops have had the ball bounced their way a couple of times during the eight-game win streak.
Earning the win in a wild finish was Falcon reliever Yo Tsong-rue, who pitched a scoreless 11th to beat his counterpart Hsu Cheng-chi, who was tagged with the loss for serving up the game-winning hit in the bottom of the eleventh.
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