Kuo Sho-yen’s two-run double capped a three-run sixth that turned a 0-2 deficit into a 3-2 advantage as the Lamigo Monkeys went on to defeat the EDA Rhinos 6-4 at the Kaohsiung Cheng Ching Lake Baseball Stadium last night to take the weekend series by a 2-1 margin.
An RBI double by Chang Chien-ming and a solo homer by Lin Yi-chuan put the Rhinos ahead 2-0 after four innings of play.
However, the visitors were able to overcome the deficit by scoring the next five runs, before holding off a late-game rally by the hosts with an insurance run in the top of the ninth to make good on the win.
Starter Mike Loree was credited with his 10th win of the season, allowing two runs — one earned — on six hits over seven innings to beat his counterpart, Lin Chen-hua.
LIONS 2, ELEPHANTS 1
Lin Chih-hsiang’s one-out single, with runners on first and second, scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth for the Uni-President Lions as they held on to edge the Brother Elephants at the Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium last night.
The win not only spared the Cats suffering a clean series sweep at home, but also propelled them past the Elephants to take sole possession of the No. 2 spot in the standings.
Starter Nelson Figueroa was not at his best on the night, but managed to pitch himself out of trouble at crucial junctures in the game to allow just a lone run on the seven hits he surrendered over 6-1/3 innings to claim his eighth win of the season.
The Lions’ bullpen deserved a round of applause for the big win as the trio of Fu Yu-kang, Boof Bonser and closer Luis Vizcaino combined for 2-2/3 frames of hitless relief to keep the Elephants’ offense at bay.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen go into today’s match at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim stung from their first league defeat in 16 months. Leverkusen were beaten 3-2 at home by RB Leipzig before the international break, the first loss since May last year for the reigning league and cup champions. While any defeat, particularly against a likely title rival, would have disappointed coach Xabi Alonso, the way in which it happened would be most concerning. Just as they did in the Supercup against VfB Stuttgart and in the league opener to Borussia Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen scored first, but were pegged back. However, while Leverkusen rallied late to
If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42km through the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors (WMM) will soon add a seventh race to the elite series. The Sydney Marathon is to become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year. “We’re really excited for Sunday to arrive,” race director Wayne Larden told a news conference in Sydney yesterday. “We’re prepared, we’re ready. All of our plans look good on
The lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Karoline Kristensen entered for her performance. However, this was no ordinary Dutch theater: The temperature was 80°C and the audience naked apart from a towel. Dressed in a swimsuit and to the tune of emotional music, the 21-year-old Kristensen started her routine, performed inside a large sauna, with a bed of hot rocks in the middle. For a week this month, a group of wellness practitioners, called “sauna masters,” are gathering at a picturesque health resort in the Netherlands to compete in this year’s Aufguss world sauna championships. The practice takes its name from a
When details from a scientific experiment that could have helped clear Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva landed at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the leader of the organization’s reaction was unequivocal: “We have to stop that urgently,” he wrote. No mention of the test ever became public and Valieva’s defense at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) went on without it. What effect the information could have had on Valieva’s case is unclear, but without it, the skater, then 15 years old, was eventually disqualified from the 2022 Winter Olympics after testing positive for a banned heart medication that would later