Impeccable middle-innings relief pitching kept the La New Bears at bay as the Sinon Bulls held on to beat the home team 2-1 at Chengcing Lake Baseball Field yesterday afternoon to take the three-game series by the same margin.
Tsai Ming-jin entered in the bottom of the fifth with two outs and the bases loaded to protect a 2-1 lead and got the strikeout to end the Bears’ scoring threat.
After a scoreless sixth, it was Shen Yu-jeh’s turn to shine as he overwhelmed the Bears with 1 and 2/3 innings of one-hit relief to deny them any realistic scoring chance.
Offensively for the visitors, Lin Yi-chuan’s RBI groundout followed by Chang Tai-shan’s run-scoring single in the top of the first gave them an early 2-0 lead that proved enough to muster Tsai’s first win of the year.
Failure to come up with timely hits cost the Bears the game as they batted 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position, scoring their lone run on six hits.
Elephants 8, Lions 6
Four unanswered runs by the Brother Elephants turned a two-run deficit into a win at Douliou Baseball Stadium last night, clinching the weekend series for the men in the golden uniforms 2-1.
Chen Guan-ren’s run-scoring blooper to shallow-right capped a three-run sixth to help his team reclaim a 7-6 lead right after the Elephants had given up five runs in the fifth to surrender a 4-1 cushion in a high-scoring affair.
Chou Si-chi’s sacrifice fly with runners on second and third added an insurance run for the Elephants in the top of the ninth.
Picking up his first career victory was Elephants rookie reliever Tseng Yong-da who tossed 2 and 2/3 innings of scoreless relief despite allowing four hits in his eighth appearance of the season.
Taking the loss was Tseng’s counterpart Hsu Yu-wei who gave up an unearned run in the sixth in his second defeat of the year.
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