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(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photo by Henk Seppen)
 Rhinos lead in Taiwan Series
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  BEITUN DISTRICT, TAICHUNG CITY / TAOYUAN CITY (Taiwan) -
EDA Rhinos has taken a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven Taiwan Series by winning Game 5 on Thursday (October 27) against Chinatrust Brothers, 11-1.
The Series continues on Saturday.
Rhinos had lost the first two games, but then won the next three at home in the Taiwan Series, which began on Saturday (October 22) in Taichung.
There, the home playing Brothers won 8-7 and 9-2.
The next three games were then played at Taoyuan, where the Rhinos won their home games to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven Series.
On Tuesday, the Rhinos won 10-9, then evened the Series the next day by winning 10-1.
On Thursday, the Rhinos registered another big win, this time 11-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the Series.
The Brothers last won the Taiwan Series in 2010, which then was its seventh title.
In that year, the Brothers also played against the Rhinos, who were then known as Sinon Bulls.
The last two years, the Brothers lost the Series to Lamigo Monkeys.
The last time that the Rhinos won a championship title was in 2005, which was its second in a row.
It last played in the Taiwan Series in 2013, but then lost to Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions.
...Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium was one of the...
...playing sites during the 2013 World Baseball Classic...
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The Chinatrust Brothers play their home games in Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium, as its Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei City is under construction.
The club was founded in 1989 as Brother Elephants and played the first-ever in the new Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1990.
The team then played its home games in capital Taipei City.
Originally, the club was an amateur team, founded in 1984 by the Brother Hotel in Taipei City.
It then became a professional club in 1989 and joined the CPBL.
In December 2013, the team was sold to Hua Yi, which is a subdivision of CTBC Holding.
The name was then changed to Chinatrust Brothers, named after both their new and previous owners.
The EDA Rhinos also are playing their home games on another location since August.
The team comes from Kaohsiung, but its Chengcing Lake Baseball Stadium is also under construction.
Instead, the team now plays at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium, which is the home of Lamigo Monkeys in Taoyuan City.
The Rhinos previously were known as the Sinon Bulls in 1996-2012, who played in Taichung, where it had been founded in 1993 as Jungo Bears.
The Bulls were purchased in 2013 by the E-Da Corporation, who moved the club to Kaohsiung.
In September, it was announced at a press conference that the club again changed owners and was purchased by Fubon Financial Holding Company, which also owns the Fubon Braves, which plays in the professional basketball league in Taiwan.
A new name or its home stadium for the 2017 season were not yet announced.
(October 27)
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Game 1
At Taichung, Chinatrust Brothers won the suspenseful opener against the EDA Rhinos, 8-7.
Cheng-Min Peng was 3-for-3 for the Brothers, scored once and batted in one run.
Bryan Woodall, who was 11-3 in the regular season, was the winning pitcher.
In seven innings, he struckout five batters and gave up eight basehits.
Trailing 1-0, Yi-Chuan Lin homered for the Rhinos in the top of the fourth inning to tie the score.
But the Brothers then were productive in the bottom of the fourth off of Rhinos-starter Mike Loree, who gave up seven hits and six runs in 3 2/3 inning.
In the fourth, Loree gave up a baseclearing double with two outs to Da-Hong Cheng that broke an 1-1 tie and gave the Brothers a 4-1 lead.
The double highlighted a 5-run rally.
In the seventh inning, the Brothers added two runs to make it 8-1 in its favor.
Che-Hsuan Lin was 4-for-5 for Rhinos, which rallied for six runs in the top of the eighth to narrow the deficit to only 8-7.
The rally began when Yi-Chuan Lin hit his second homerun, this time with a runner on base.
With the tying run on second base, closer Hung-Wen Chen was brought in and he successfully ended the inning.
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Game 2
At Taichung, Brothers also won its second game, this time with a more comfortable 9-2 score.
Winning pitcher Nate Long threw seven innings for Brothers and gave up seven hits.
Just as in the opener, the score initially was tied at 1-1, this time after two innings.
In the bottom of the third inning, the Brothers rallied for five runs off of starter Jared Lansford, highlighted by a 3-run homerun hit by 38-year old Cheng-Ming Peng.
The home team added two runs in the fifth inning, then scored another one in the sixth to lift the lead to 9-1.
Rhinos then scored its second run in the top of the ninth.
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Game 3
At Taoyuan, the Rhinos won its first home game of the Series, 10-9.
The Rhinos opened the score with one run in the third inning, but the Brothers answered with two runs in the top of the fourth.
The visitors then rallied for four runs in the top of the fifth inning.
After having been silenced by starting pitcher Nick Additon and trailing 6-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning, the Rhinos rallied for seven runs to turn the game its way and take an 8-6 lead.
In the inning, the defense of the Brothers committed two costly errors.
In the seventh, the Brothers made it an one-run difference (8-7), but the Rhinos added two more insurance runs in the eighth to make it a 10-7 score.
Kuo-Hui Kao homered for the Rhinos, while Chih-Sheng Lin hit three homeruns for the Brothers.
In the regular season, the two shared the lead for most homeruns.
Lin's third homerun produced two runs with two outs in the ninth to narrow the deficit to 10-9.
Lin became the first player in history to hit three homeruns in a Taiwan Series-game.
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Game 4
At Taoyuan, the Rhinos evened the Series thanks to a big rally in the seventh inning.
In the bottom of the sixth, the scored was tied at 1-1, but then the Rhinos took the lead.
Trying to complete a double play, an error at first base followed, resulting in a run.
The Rhinos then rallied for seven runs in the seventh inning.
The Rhinos collected 16 basehits, including four by Wei-Ting Lin.
All players in their line-up hit at least one basehit.
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Game 5
Rhinos registered a big 11-1 win in this game to take the lead in the Series.
Rhinos opened the scored with three runs in the bottom of the second inning.
After the first run was scored on a grounder by Tsung-Hsien Lee, it was followed by runscoring singles by Chin-Lung Hu and Che-Hsuan Lin.
The Brothers got one run back in the top of the third, but the Rhinos then took more distance by scoring two runs in the fourth and one in the sixth.
A 5-run rally in the eighth lifted the lead to 11-1.
The Rhinos collected 15 basehits and again all starting players hit at least one.
Che-Hsuan Lin was 3-for-4 and batted in three runs.
Winning pitcher Mike Loree gave up only five hits in six innings and struckout seven batters.
Loree led the season in victories and ERA and dominated tonight.
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