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04/30/2003 Archived Entry: "Taiwan Baseball News: Bulls Lead Lions By One After Slugfest Win"
Taiwan Baseball News: Bulls Lead Lions By One After Slugfest Win
By Andrew Wong
Sinon Bulls 7 President Lions 6
It was a slugfest last night at Shingchu Stadium that resulted in two quality pitchers having their ERA balloon. Sinon Bulls' starter Chung-nan Tsai gave up four runs, all earned, in six innings but came away with the win as his team outslugged the President Lions 7-6 before 3,179 fans. Tsai improved to 4-2-0.
Meanwhile, American native Joe Davenport started for the Lions (19-10-0) and was tagged with seven runs, five of which were earned, in 6 2/3 innings of pitching. Davenport picked up his first loss of the 2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League season to drop to 7-1-0. Bulls' second baseman Chang-yi Huang was able to go 2-for-3 against Leos' pitching with three runs scored while left fielder Song-yong Luo finished the night 1-for-3 with two runs and one RBI.
Bulls' Osvaldo Martinez picked up his first save of the season with 1 1/3 innings of shutout baseball in relief of Wen-pin Hsu, who gave up two runs, both earned, in 1 2/3 innings. The Dominican native Martinez is usually a starter.
For the Lions, center fielder Kang-ling Huang went 1-for-5 but scored two runs while left/right fielder Lien-hung Chen finished 2-for-4.
With the win, the Bulls moved to 19-8-0 and are now one game ahead of the Lions.
Today's Picture
Sinon Bulls' starter Chung-nan Tsai delivers a pitch
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bulls 0 0 0 4 2 0 1 0 0 7 13 0
Lions 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 6 8 1
WP: Chung-nan Tsai (4-2-0)
LP: Joe Davenport (7-1-0)
SV: Osvaldo Martinez (1)
Attendance: 3,179
Venue: Shingchu Stadium, Taiwan
Game time: 3:22
Pitching Lines
Bulls
Pitcher IP H R ER Pitches Strikes Balls
Chung-nan Tsai 6 5 4 4 122 68 54
Wen-pin Hsu 1 2/3 1 2 2 28 14 14
Osvaldo Martinez 1 1/3 2 0 0 26 14 12
Lions
Pitcher IP H R ER Pitches Strikes Balls
Joe Davenport 6 2/3 11 7 5 106 60 46
Yang-kai Chen 2 1/3 2 0 0 36 18 18
Makoto Gida 3 China Trust Whales 4 (10 innings)
Everything went right for the China Trust Whales last night at Shingcung Stadium as third baseman Chien-wei Chen won it in the 10th inning, 4-3, with a game-winning RBI single off Makoto Gida reliever Ned Daley (0-2-0). Chen was named the Game MVP as he finished the night 2-for-5 with one RBI.
Michael Marchesano started the game for the Gida and gave up two runs, one earned, in six innings but picked up a no-decision.
Gida designated hitter Chin-yi Cheng hit his fifth home run of the season with a two-run pinch-hit shot as he finished 1-for-1 with one run scored and two RBIs. Bao-hong Chen started the game as the DH for the Gida and finished 2-for-4.
For the 15-10-2 Whales, designated hitter Han-chou Tseng went 3-for-3 while scoring one run in a game that was played to makeup a postponed April 4 game.
The Whales will be visiting the Gida again tonight (6:35 p.m. Taiwan time) at Shingcung Stadium.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Gida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 7 4
Whales 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 11 1
WP: N/A
LP: Ned Daley (0-2-0)
HR: DH Chin-yi Cheng (5) (Gida)
Attendance: 1,146
Venue: Shingcung Stadium, Taiwan
Game time: 3:27
Today's Games
At Shingcung Stadium: China Trust Whales (15-10-2) at Makoto Gida (11-17-0)
At Kaoshung Stadium: Brother Elephants (10-16-1) at First Securities Agan (6-19-1)
2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League standings
W L T GB Pct.
1. Sinon Bulls 19 8 0 --- .704
1. President Lions 19 10 0 1.0 .655
3. China Trust Whales 15 10 2 3.0 .600
4. Makoto Gida 11 17 0 8.5 .393
5. Brother Elephants 10 16 1 8.5 .385
6. First Securities Agan 6 19 1 12.0 .240
