Peng “Chia Chia” Cheng-min’s comebacker with runners on second and third that deflected off Warner Madrigal for an infield single broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the eighth inning to spark what turned out to be a late-game surge as the Chinatrust Brothers went on to defeat the Uni-President Lions 13-4 at the Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium last night to take the weekend series 2-1.
What had been a classic defensive struggle between the two most storied clubs in the league that had been deadlocked at 2-2 through the seventh was anything but close, with the men in the golden uniform plating nine in the top of the ninth to blow it wide open.
Chiang Chih-hsien’s bouncer up the middle with runners on first and second gave the Brothers a quick 1-0 lead in the top of the first, before the Cats fought back with a run of their own in the bottom of the fourth when Kuo Hu-lin doubled off Brothers starter Lin Yu-ching and scored on Chang “OEO” Tai-shan’s single to right.
Photo: Huang Chi-yuan, Taipei Times
The two teams traded runs in the sixth that made it 2-2 until the Brothers blew it wide open in the final two frames.
Picking up the win with 1-1/3 innings of scoreless relief was Hsieh Rong-hao, while the loss was charged to his counterpart, Zach Segovia, who tossed a solid seventh before allowing the first two Brothers hitters to reach safely in the game-deciding eighth for his second setback of the season.
MONKEYS 10, RHINOS 9
The Lamigo Monkeys avoided what would have been a deflating loss which would have seen them squander leads as large as six runs before escaping in a 10-9 thriller over the EDA Rhinos at the Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium last night
Lan Ying-lun’s clutch single with two outs in the bottom of the eighth put the Primates ahead for good as they redeemed themselves for blowing an early 6-0 lead by rallying from two down with three runs in the seventh to eke out the narrow victory.
Chen Chun-hsiu’s grand slam off Rhinos starter Gaby Hernandez highlighted a six-run first which saw the hosts send a dozen to the plate and they led 6-1 after two innings of play and held it through the sixth, before a seven-run seventh by the Rhinos actually set them back by two in the bottom of the seventh.
With the game on the line, the hosts looked to none other than Chen and Lan, who drove in a run each with a double and single respectively in a three-run seventh to set up Lan’s eighth-inning heroics, putting his team ahead for good.
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