Thursday Rundown....

US Minors:

Lo (Far Left)
pic by STEPHEN HOLMAN / Tulsa World

Nice article/preview on Ching-Lung Lo and the Tulsa Drillers pitching staff.

It's opening night for most of the minor leagues.

Follow how our kids are doing tonight:
1)Chin-Hui Tsao is pitching the bottom of the 9th inning for AAA Vegas. Box Game Log
2)Yung-Chi Chen, playing in the PCL (AAA) is starting for Tacoma versus Sacramento. He's currently 1-1 with a double in the top of the 3rd inning. Box Game Log
3)In AA action, Jacksonville lost 4-1 in it's season opener to the Tennessee Smokies. Ching-Lung Hu was 1-4. Box
4)In A ball, Kuo-Hui Lo was 1-4 with a double and a RBI as his team lost to Peoria 9-5. Box


CPBL:
Bears 5 - Bulls 1: The game featured a good duel between SP's Gary Rath and Alfredo Gonzalez/Gary Rath earned his 2nd win of the season and Game MVP honors with a strong 8 inning performance allowing only 1 run on 6 hits, he had 4 K's and 0 walks/Gonzalez was the hard-luck loser, allowing only 2 earned runs over 7 innings/CFC was 2-4 with a RBI.
Elephants 11 - Lions 10: In an improbable comeback, the Elephants would score 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to beat the Lions by the final score/ Geng-Hsin Liu of the Elephants was voted Game MVP as he was 2-5 with 2 RBI's/Cheng-Ming Peng smacked his 4th HR of the season as he was 2-3 with 3 RBI's/Elephants RF Huai-Shan Chen was 4-5 with 3 RBI's/The one-man wrecking crew for the Lions - Kuo-Ching Kao was 3-5 with 4 RBI's.


NPB:
Yang had his first hitless game this season as he was 0-4 against the Marines nigun team.

Wei-Chu Lin walked in his only plate appearance in the 9th inning. The Tigers lost to the Swallows 4-1