Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) goes to a three-day regular-season schedule this week as it prepares for the All-Star Game to be held at the Hsinchuang County Stadium tomorrow.
A "Future All-Star Game" will be added to the schedule, joining Home Run Derby and the Base-running Competition.
The Future All-Star Game, scheduled for tonight, will feature Team Red, consisting of the league's top rookies, and Team White, made up of minor-league amateurs.
Skipper Lee Lai-fa (
A home-run contest among the future all-stars tonight will send its winner to the preliminary round of tomorrow's Home Run Derby, where defending champion Chen Lien-hung (
Wrap Up
The Lions extended their winning streak to seven games with a 3-1 win over the Bears, Tuesday.
Pitcher of the Month Jose Alberro of the Lions allowed only three hits in six innings.
The lone Bear run came on a solo blast by center fielder Tsai Jien-wei (
Kao retired the side and closer Michael Garcia pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth inning for his league-leading 20th consecutive save.
The California native has not allowed a run in 37-2/3 innings.
Chris Wright issued five walks in a losing effort for the Bears. The American righty allowed three runs on six hits as he went the distance.
Bulls vs. Elephants
The Elephants were unable to overcome four fifth-inning runs as the defending champs lost their second straight game in Wednesday's 5-3 loss to the Bulls.
Chang Tai-shan (
In the next inning, the Elephants scored three runs following hits by Peng Cheng-ming (
Newly acquired Bulls closer Brian Warren earned his first save of the season by securing the last six outs of the game.
Warren was able to get out of trouble following a couple of double plays.
Cobras vs. Whales
The Cobras overcame a deficit in their series opener against the Whales, which ended 7-7 on Tuesday, before their 12-4 trouncing of the Whales the following day.
Power slugger Hsieh Jia-shien (謝佳賢) led the Cobras offense with a 3-for-5 night and three RBI in Game 1, while teammate Francisco Morales picked up the slack in Game 2 with three RBI.
The catcher-turned-first baseman got his third home run of the year as the serpents lit up the scoreboard with a dozen runs, tying their season-high mark for the second time this year.
Huang Chin-chih (
The former closer started in just his second game since returning from a month-long rehab assignment, yielded one run on two hits in five innings before being given a rest.
Jonas Vingegaard on Tuesday claimed the overall Vuelta a Espana lead while Jay Vine earned the stage 10 victory for his second triumph of the race. Two-time Tour de France winner Vingegaard overhauled Torstein Traen’s lead to head the general classification by 26 seconds from the Norwegian, with Joao Almeida third and trailing the Dane by 38 seconds. Vine put in an unmatchable performance on the final climb to finish ahead of Spanish Movistar riders Pablo Castrillo and Javier Romo. “Back in red, I’m happy with it, it’s a beautiful jersey,” Vingegaard said. “I’m happy with how the day went,
Australian Alex de Minaur reached the second week of the US Open for the third year in a row with little fanfare on Saturday and said he intended to keep winning until the tournament organizers were forced to give him better billing. Despite being the eighth seed and a quarter-finalist last year at Flushing Meadows, De Minaur’s third-round match against German Daniel Altmaier was scheduled for Court 17 — the smallest of the four stadium venues in the precinct. “It is a little bit of a headscratcher for me. I’m not gonna lie,” he told reporters after progressing 6-7 (9/7), 6-3, 6-4,
RIVALRY: Carlos Alcaraz lost his previous two matches against Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, in the Australian Open quarter-finals this year and Paris Olympics final last year Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday dazzled at the US Open to make the semi-finals before Novak Djokovic of Serbia danced his way through to book a New York showdown with the Spaniard that would mark the latest chapter in their generational rivalry. Former champion Alcaraz produced yet another entertaining display at Flushing Meadows to dismantle 20th seed Jiri Lehecka 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 at a sunbathed Arthur Ashe Stadium, securing his place in the last four without dropping a set this year. “Sometimes I play a shot that I should not play in that moment, but it’s the way I love
Spain are in danger of not getting out of EuroBasket Group C after losing 67-63 to Italy on Tuesday, but the defending champions still control their destiny. Marco Spissu put Italy in front for good at 64-63 with two free throws with 31 seconds left and made two more with 14 seconds remaining. Giampaolo Ricci converted one of two free throws with eight seconds on the clock. Spain, which in 2022 won their fourth title, are tied with Georgia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina at 2-2 each. Greece and Italy have clinched two of the group’s four spots in the round-of-16,
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