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04/06/2003 Archived Entry: "Taiwan Baseball News: Lions and Bulls Split"
Taiwan Baseball News: Lions and Bulls Split
By Andy Wong
President Lions 6 Sinon Bulls 1
Wei-luen Pan was this year's No. 1 draft pick. In two starts, he has showed why. Pan had his fourth straight excellent outing, giving up just one run, earned, in seven innings to lead the President Lions to a 6-1 romp over the Sinon Bulls in the first game of a double-header yesterday afternoon with 3,520 people in the stands. Pan improved to an unbelievable 4-0-0 and has an ERA of 1.00 so far in the 2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League season. Pan was also named the Game MVP.
Jung-yang Tsao pitched two scoreless innings to get his fourth save of the season.
Overall, it was definitely not a good day for the Bulls. Osvaldo Martinez could not have found a more worse time to have a bad start as he gave up four runs, all earned, in seven innings to drop to 3-1-0. His 2003 ERA is at 1.91. Reliever Ren-ming yang was no better as he gave up two runs, both earned, in two innings of relief of Martinez. Bulls' team captain and second baseman Chang-yi Huang went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
Linescore
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lions 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 6 10 0
Bulls 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0
WP: Wei-luen Pan (4-0-0)
LP: Osvaldo Martinez (3-1-0)
SV: Jung-yang Tsao (4)
Game MVP: Wei-luen Pan
Attendace: 3,520
Game time: 2:55
President Lions 5, Sinon Bulls 6
At least not all was lost for the Sinon Bulls yesterday. They lost the first game of a double-header to make up a cancelled game on April 4 but won the nightcap, 6-5 over the President Lions in front of 5,012 fans who turned out to see the matchup between the CPBL's top two teams.
With the win, the Bulls remain 0.5 games up on the Lions. American Jeffrey Louis Andra started the game for the Bulls and gave up four runs, three earned, in 7 1/3 innings but closer Ramon Morel gave up a run 1 2/3 and was therefore credited with the win, his second.
Fellow American Joe Davenport pitched a tremendous ball game, giving up two runs, one earned, in seven innings but reliever Yang-kai Chen came in and gave up four runs, two earned, in 1/3 innings to lose the game for the Leos. Chen dropped to 0-1-0.
Center fielder Kang-ling Huang went 2-for-5 with a run scored in the leadoff spot to lead the Lions while third baseman Tai-shan Chang went 2-for-3 with a run scored and left fielder Song-yong Luo went 1-for-4 with an RBI to pace the Bulls, who improved to 11-4-0. The Lions dropped to 11-5-0.
Linescore
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lions 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 5 10 5
Bulls 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 X 6 9 1
WP: Ramon Morel (2-0-0)
LP: Yang-kai Chen (0-1-0)
Attendance: 5,012
Game time: 2:44
First Securities Agan 1 Brother Elephants 4
Center fielder Chih-yuen Chen hit two home runs as the Brother Elephants beat the First Securities Agan 4-1 last night before 5,019 fans.
The Elephants jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning before tacking on run each in the sixth and ninth innings to coast to the victory.
Pitching is the key in the CPBL and Japanese native Hisanori Yokota gave up one run, earned in the fifth frame, in eight innings to pick up the win and improve to 3-0-0 on the year. Yokota also racked up the Game MVP award. His ERA fell to 2.37. Fellow Japanese native Shin Nakagomi pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save of the season.
The Agan fell to 5-10-0 and are six games back of the first-place Sinon Bulls while the Elephants are also six games back at 5-10-1.
Linescore
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Agan 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 7 1
Elephants 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 4 7 0
WP: Hisanori Yokota (3-0-0)
LP: N/A
SV: Shin Nakagomi (1)
Game MVP: Hisanori Yokota
Attendance: 5,019
Game time: 3:06
Today's Games
No games scheduled (until April 8).
2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League standings
W L T GB Pct.
1. Sinon Bulls 11 4 0 --- .733
2. President Lions 11 5 0 0.5 .688
3. China Trust Whales 8 7 1 3.0 .533
4. Makoto Gida 6 10 0 5.5 .375
5. First Securities Agan 5 10 0 6.0 .333
6. Brother Elephants 5 10 1 6.0 .333
