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05/04/2003 Archived Entry: "Taiwan Baseball News: Hurst Bounces Back; Daley Loses In First Start"
Taiwan Baseball News: Hurst Bounces Back; Daley Loses In First Start
By Andrew Wong
Brother Elephants 6 First Securities Agan 0
Aces always bounce back. American native Jonathan Hurst bounced back from a rough outing last week as he blanked the First Securities Agan to help the Brother Elephants win 6-0 last night before 6,085 onlookers at Kaoshung Stadium.
But matching him pitch by pitch was Agan starter Rue-hao Liang and thus the game was tied 0-0 heading into the 10th inning of play.
The Elephants rallied off six runs in that inning off of Agan relievers Wen-hsiung Hsu (2-6-1) and Feng-hua Lee as short stop Rue-chang Chen went 1-for-3 with one run scored and one RBI and center fielder Chih-yuen Chen finished 1-for-5 with one run plated and one run driven in. Hsu gave up three runs, two earned, in 1 2/3 innings while his counterpart Lee surrendered the same amount in 1/3 of an inning.
Liang picked up a no-decision as he gave up two hits and no runs in 7 1/3 innings. Hurst got the win to improve to 2-2-0 as he shutout the Agan while only scattering five hits in nine innings. Ruen-win Hsiao closed out the 10th for the Elephants.
With the win, the Elephants improved to 13-16-1 while the Agan dropped to 6-22-1 with the loss.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Elephants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 9 0
Agan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 5
WP: Jonathan Hurst (2-2-0)
LP: Wen-hsiung Hsu (2-6-1)
Attendance: 6,085
Venue: Kaoshung Stadium, Taiwan
Game time: 3:30
China Trust Whales 4 Makoto Gida 2
It was another pitching duel that was witnessed by 1,280 fans here at Shingcung Stadium last night. China Trust Whales starter Hiroaki Nakayama gave up eight hits and two runs, both earned, in 7 2/3 innings as he improved to 5-1-0. Meanwhile, American native Ned Daley started his first game for the Makoto Gida and scattered eights hits to go with four earned runs in seven innings to fall to 0-3-0. Nakayama was named the Game MVP.
For the Whales, center fielder Song-hsuen Yang finished at 1-for-3 with two runs scored, third baseman Chien-wei Chen went 2-for-4 with one RBI and designated hitter Chen-hao Wang, who replaced starting DH Han-chou Tseng, went 1-for-1 with one RBI.
First baseman Jia-hsian Hsieh went 2-for-4 with one run driven in for the Gida (11-20-0).
Closer Chien-fu Kuo-Lee pitched 1 1/3 innings and gave up only four hits to pick up his seventh save of the 2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League season for the 18-10-2 Whales.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Whales 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 10 0
Gida 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 8 0
WP: Hiroaki Nakayama (5-1-0)
LP: Ned Daley (0-3-0)
SV: Chien-fu Kuo-Lee (7)
Game MVP: Hiroaki Nakayama
Attendance: 1,280
Venue: Shingcung Stadium, Taiwan
Game time: 2:43
Today's Games
No games scheduled.
2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League standings
W L T GB Pct.
1. Sinon Bulls 21 8 0 --- .724
3. China Trust Whales 18 10 2 2.5 .643
3. President Lions 19 12 0 3.0 .613
4. Brother Elephants 13 16 1 8.0 .448
5. Makoto Gida 11 20 0 11.0 .355
6. First Securities Agan 6 22 1 14.0 .214
