Lin Chih-hsiang’s soft grounder back to the pitcher that was ruled a single by the instant replay scored the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth as the Uni-President Lions plated three unanswered runs to rally past the red-hot EDA Rhinos 3-2 at the Cheng Ching Lake Baseball Stadium in Kaohsiung last night.
It was a play close enough to involve the instant replay as an out would have stranded all three Lions runners to end the inning. However, fortunately for the slumping Cats, losers of three straight and seven of their last 10 heading into the contest, it was a break they had been looking for to secure a victory.
The Lions’ starter pitched into and out of trouble on several occasions to keep the Rhinos offense to only two runs, despite giving up 10 hits over seven innings.
The Lions’ defense also turned three double plays on the night in addition to gunning down a Rhinos runner at the plate to end the second and help out their pitchers.
EDA wasted little time getting to Pan “Du Du” Wei-lun, with a run in each of the first two innings, thanks to an RBI single by Lin Yi-chuan and a run-scoring double by Hu Chin-lung.
The Rhinos offense were unable to score again, with Du Du pitching shutout ball through the seventh before Lin Tzu-wei and Fu Yu-kang split a scoreless eighth and ninth to deal the Rhinos a rare home loss.
Picking up his second win of the season was Lin Tzu-wei, who came out of the Lions’ bullpen to toss a scoreless eighth, while the loss was charged against his counterpart Lai Hung-cheng, who suffered his first defeat to settle with a 3-1 mark for the season.
MONKEYS 7 BROTHERS 6
The Lamigo Monkeys beat the Chinatrust Brothers 7-6 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium last night.
It was all-Monkeys through the fifth, as the visitors scored in all but one of the first five innings to spot starter Pat Misch a 6-0 lead.
Trailing 7-2 to start the bottom of the ninth, the Brothers managed to plate four off Monkeys closer Lin Po-yo that made it 7-6, and had the tying run in scoring position but the Primates held on to win.
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