Chen Shizan Leads the Charge: Taiwan’s U18 Baseball Team Faces Off Against Japan in Thrilling Asian Youth Championship
2024/9/7 21:11
(Updated 9/7 at 22:03)
Taiwan Team Secures Win in U18 Asian Youth Baseball Championship
(Central News Agency reporter Xie Jingwen, Taipei, 7th) The U18 Asian Youth Baseball Championship Taiwan team scored 5K points in the first game in the ”East Sports Submarine” game today. And led the team to 9. With a 0-0 win, Taiwan will surely compete with Japan for the championship tomorrow.
The Asian Youth Baseball Championship Taiwan team advanced by one win against South Korea in the Super Round Robin rematch, where they will face the Philippines today.
The Taiwan team was aggressive in the second inning with Sheng’an’s double hit and added 1 point, Liu Cheng Yu’s grounder caused another error at first base, and Taiwan’s Quan Shaokai scored another 2 runs with an infield hit, and then the team’s 5th score. Depends on a fielder’s choice to do. run
The Taiwanese team went on the offensive in the 3rd inning and scored consecutive ground balls, Zeng Weize hitting a double. And Zhang Zhao Honggan had an RBI in each hit, and the Taiwan team added 3 more points in a single game.
Chen Shizan started today and went 4 innings with 42 pitches, he struck out 5 times and gave up no runs, and Zhang Yuqian pitched 3 scoreless innings as a reliever and saved the win. It was the first time the pitch was played.
Taiwan team won today, 2 wins and 1 loss record after the game, South Korea defeated Japan 1-0, Taiwan will face Japan again tomorrow in the championship match.