2011 Chinese Professional Baseball League season

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The 2011 Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) season began on March 19 in Kaohsiung County when the defending champion Lamigo Monkeys played host to the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions. The season concluded in late October with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions defeating the Lamigo Monkeys in Game 7 of the Taiwan Series.

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Competition

Four teams, the Lamigo Monkeys, Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, Sinon Bulls and Brother Elephants will contest the CPBL, the highest level of professional baseball played in Taiwan. The season is divided into two halves, with each team playing sixty games in each half. The winners for each half-season plus the non-winner with the best overall record will qualify for the playoffs. In the event that the same team wins both halves, the next two teams with the best overall records will advance.

Standings

First Half standings

TeamGWTLPct.GB
Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 6037122.627--
Lamigo Monkeys 6033126.5594.0
Brother Elephants 6028032.4679.5
Sinon Bulls 6020238.34516.5

Second Half Standings

TeamGWTLPct.GB
Lamigo Monkeys 6033126.559--
Brother Elephants 6032028.5331.5
Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 6028230.4834.5
Sinon Bulls 6025134.4248.0

Overall standings

TeamGWTLPct.GBRSRA
Lamigo Monkeys 12066252.559--627575
Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 12065352.5560.5624563
Brother Elephants 12060060.5008.0597576
Sinon Bulls 12045372.38520.5555689

Statistical leaders

Hitting

StatPlayerTeamTotal
HR Lin Hung-Yu Lamigo Monkeys 22
AVG Zhang Zheng-wei Brother Elephants 0.351
H Zhang Zheng-wei Brother Elephants 170
RBIs Lin Hung-Yu Lamigo Monkeys 106
SB Zhang Zheng-wei Brother Elephants 31

Pitching

StatPlayerTeamTotal
W Orlando Román Brother Elephants 16
ERA Ken Ray Lamigo Monkeys 2.85
SO Orlando Román Brother Elephants 161
SV Hsu Ming-chieh Lamigo Monkeys 30
Hld Wang Ching-li Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 26

Month MVP

MonthItemPlayerTeam
MarchPitcher Pan Wei-lun Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
Hitter Lin Hung-Yu Lamigo Monkeys
AprilPitcher Adrian Burnside Lamigo Monkeys
Hitter Lin Chih-sheng Lamigo Monkeys
MayPitcher Dan Reichert Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
Hitter Chen Kuan-jen Brother Elephants
JunePitcher Tyler Lumsden Brother Elephants
Hitter Chen Kuan-jen Brother Elephants
JulyPitcher Steve Hammond Lamigo Monkeys
Hitter Kao Kuo-ching Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
AugustPitcher Luo Cheng-lung Sinon Bulls
Hitter Zhang Zheng-wei Brother Elephants
SeptemberPitcher Orlando Román Brother Elephants
Hitter Lin Hung-Yu Lamigo Monkeys
OctoberPitcher Orlando Román Brother Elephants
Hitter Lin Hung-Yu Lamigo Monkeys

Final

Participants

The Lions and the Monkeys played each other in 40 regular season games, and the Monkeys had the upper hand with 21 wins, 18 losses, and one tied game. The two teams also played each other in the 2006 Taiwan Series and 2007 Taiwan Series; the Monkeys defeated the Lions in 2006, but the Lions claimed the title in 2007.

Rules

All regular season rules apply with the following exceptions:

Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions (4) vs. Lamigo Monkeys (1)

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 15Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 3 Lamigo Monkeys 2 Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium 3:5311,113 
2October 16Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 8 Lamigo Monkeys 7 (13 innings)Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium4:5810,105 
3October 18Lamigo Monkeys 4 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 1 Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium 3:056062 
4October 19Lamigo Monkeys 2 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 3Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium3:217518 
5October 20Lamigo Monkeys 6 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 10Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium3:5110,718

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