Chinatrust Whales Beats Sinon Bulls

The Chinatrust Whales moved back into first place in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with a solid 7-4 win over the Sinon Bulls on Saturday in Douliou.

The Whales opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first on an RBI-double by Dominican slugger Carlos Villalobos off Sinon starter Yang Jien-fu for a 1-0 lead. Then, in the sixth frame, Chinatrust put the game away with a five-run barrage.

Kang Tseh-wei and Dominican Abraham Nunez rapped back-to-back before Villalobos’ stroked his second double of the night to drive in a pair of runs. Lin Guan-chung and Wang Hsin-min followed with consecutive run-scoring singles with two outs to net the Whales their third and fourth runs.

Whales starter Lin Min-jing was impressive throwing goose eggs for six innings allowing only two hits before the Bulls tagged him for two runs on three hits in the seventh to make the score 5-2.

Chinatrust responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh to extend the lead to 7-2 but Sinon roughed up rookie reliever Huang Hong-ren for a couple of runs in the eighth to make it 7-4.

But Whales reliever Chu Wei-ming dashed any hopes of a bigger rally needing only three pitches to record the final two outs in the eight frame. Closer Du Chang-wei finished off the ninth with relative ease to preserve the win for Lin with his second save of the year.

Leading the Whales attack was a top of the order consisting of Kang, Nunez and Villalobos, who combined for an incredible 9-for-14 with five RBIs and dealing Yang his first loss of the season

BEARS 11, T-REX 6

The La New Bears trailed 3-1 early before pounding dmedia T-Rex 11-6 at the Taipei County Baseball Stadium in Sinjhuang on Saturday.

Huang “Easy” Long-yi and Jiang Chih-tsong each connected for two-run singles in a seven-run, seventh inning outburst for the Bears who roughed a suspect T-Rex bullpen that has struggled to protect late-inning leads.

The Bears scored 10 unanswered runs – including three in the final two innings – to hold a commanding 11-3 advantage to give starter Mike Johnson his second consective win. T-Rex managed to score three runs in the bottom of the ninth to make the final tally 11-6.

(Courtesy of Taiwan Baseball)