Homers lit up the Tainan sky on Sunday night in the match between the President Lions and the dmedia T-Rex as the home team trounced the T-Rex by a 13-5 margin to sweep the two-game series.
Four different Lions players went deep against a generous dmedia pitching team, highlighted by back-to-back blasts from Tilson Brito and Chen Lien-hong in a three-run second that left the cats with a 5-0 lead after just two innings of play.
They blew the game wide open in the fifth with five more runs off two T-Rex hurlers, allowing skipper Lu Wen-sheng to pull his starter Pan “Du Du” Wei-luen in the interest of not overworking his staff ace.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
Even though the T-Rex then started a four-run rally, it was too little too late against the Lions, who never trailed in the game.
Pan picked up the win and improved to 11-1 for the season with five solid innings of work, giving up a run on five hits while fanning seven and walking one.
Suffering the loss was Chiang Bo-ching, who served up Brito and Chen’s home runs in the early going and was chased during the second after allowing five runs on seven hits.
BEARS 6, WHALES 0
Mike Johnson earned his league-best 16th victory of the season in grand fashion by going the distance in a 6-0 shutout win to beach the Chinatrust Whales at the Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium in Tienmu.
The Canadian right-hander has been brilliant for the La New Bears. On Sunday he kept the Whales attack to five scattered singles and struck out a half-dozen in the process to help his club maintain its slim half-game lead over the second-placed Lions.
Doing the damage at the plate for the rambunctious Bears were DH man Gary Burnham and Tseng Hao-jui, with a pair of RBIs each making up the bulk of the La New run production.
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