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07/18/2003 Archived Entry: "Taiwan Baseball News: Foreign Pitchers Dominate"
Taiwan Baseball News: Foreign Pitchers Dominate
By Andrew Wong
First Securities Agan 1 Brother Elephants 3
Newly acquired Panama native Miguel Martinez helped the Brother Elephants to a 3-1 victory last night at Shingcung Stadium before 4,670 fans with a solid eight inning performance in which he surrendered one earned run on eight hits. Martinez (2-0-0) walked four and struck out seven batters.
The Elephants scored one run each in the fourth and fifth innings. Center fielder Chih-yuen Chen showed why he's an all-star as he went 3-for-4 with a triple and a run scored.
First Securities Agan starter Gabriel Ozura (1-5-0) gave up three runs, two of them earned, on seven hits through seven innings to rack up the loss.
Agan center fielder Kai-fa Chen finished the evening 2-for-4.
CPBL NOTE: The Elephants have added right-handed hurler Miguel Martinez to the 25-man roster. The Panama native is 193 cm tall and weighs 105 kg. He will wear No.31 in his first season in the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Agan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 1
Elephants 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 X 3 9 0
WP: Miguel Martinez (2-0-0)
LP: Gabriel Ozura (1-5-0)
Game MVP: CF Chih-yuen Chen (Elephants)
Attendance: 4,670
Venue: Shingcung Stadium, Taiwan
Game time: 3:04
Pitching Lines
Agan IP H R ER BB SO Pitches Strikes Balls BF
Gabriel Ozura 7 7 3 2 0 5 106 79 39 27
Wen-hsiung Hsu 1 2 0 0 1 0 17 9 8 5
Elephants IP H R ER BB SO Pitches Strikes Balls BF
Miguel Martinez 8 8 1 1 4 7 125 73 52 33
Ching-li Wang 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 11 4 4
President Lions 0 Sinon Bulls 2
Hopefully, the Sinon Bulls have snapped out of that funk that cost them the CPBL's first-half championship. American native Jeffrey Andra improved to 11-0-0 with one save as he went seven shutout innings to help the Bulls blank the President Lions 2-0 before 2,740 onlookers at Taichung Stadium last night.
Andra walked three and fanned four and was named the Game's Most Valuable Player.
All-star game starter Wei-luen Pan, of the Lions, matched Andra pitch-for-pitch until the seventh inning before he surrendred two runs, one of which was not earned. He scattered eight hits in seven innings to fall to 7-6-0. Bulls left fielder Song-yong Luo went 2-for-3 with a run scored while catcher Chun-chang Yeh finished the evening 1-for-3 with a run scored and one RBI.
For the Leos, designated hitter Lien-hung Chen, the older brother of Los Angeles Dodgers prospect Chin-feng Chen, went 2-for-4. LF Hung-yuan Lin finished at 3-for-4.
Dominican native Ramon Morel pitched one scoreless inning to pick up his 17th save of the year for the Bulls.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
Bulls 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 X 2 8 0
WP: Jeffrey Andra (11-0-0)
LP: Wei-luen Pan (7-6-0)
SV: Ramon Morel (17)
Game MVP: P Jeffrey Andra (Bulls)
Attendance: 2,740
Venue: Taichung Stadium, Taiwan
Game time: 2:54
Pitching Lines
Lions IP H R ER BB SO Pitches Strikes Balls BF
Wei-luen Pan 7 8 2 1 0 3 99 66 33 29
Lung-wei Kao 1 0 0 0 2 0 23 12 11 3
Bulls IP H R ER BB SO Pitches Strikes Balls BF
Jeffrey Andra 7 4 0 0 3 4 96 57 39 26
Chung-nan Tsai 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 9 1 4
Ramon Morel 1 2 0 0 0 2 19 12 7 4
Today's Game (all games Taiwan time)
At Taichung Stadium: President Lions (6-5-1) at Sinon Bulls (9-2-1), 6:35 p.m.
At Tian Mu Stadium: Makoto Gida (2-9-1) at China Trust Whales (2-6-1), 5:05 p.m.
Second-half 2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League standings
W L T GB Pct.
1. Brother Elephants 10 2 0 --- .833
2. Sinon Bulls 9 2 1 0.5 .818
3. President Lions 6 5 1 3.5 .545
4. First Securities Agan 3 8 2 6.5 0.273
5. China Trust Whales 2 6 1 6.0 .250
6. Makoto Gida 2 9 1 7.5 .182
Final First-Half 2003 Chinese Professional Baseball League standings
W L T GB Pct.
1. Sinon Bulls* 34 15 1 --- .694
2. China Trust Whales 26 19 5 6.0 .578
3. Brother Elephants 27 20 3 6.0 .574
4. President Lions 24 23 4 9.0 .511
5. Makoto Gida 21 27 2 12.5 .438
6. First Securities Agan 9 37 5 23.5 .196
*clinched first-half title
