Taiwan’s Teen Sensation: U18 Asian Youth Star Shines with 5.1 Games and 7K in Blistering Form
2024/9/2 20:41
(Updated at 9/2 21:54)
2024 Asian U18 Youth Baseball Championship: Taiwan Beats South Korea 1-0
(Central News Agency reporter Xie Jingwen, Taipei, 2nd) In the 2024 Asian U18 Youth Baseball Championship, the Taiwanese team will face South Korea in its first game tonight. Taiwanese team pitcher Chen Muheng started 5.1 innings and 7K scoreless.
The Taiwanese team won the 3 innings at a speed of 152 km, in the end they beat South Korea 1-0, gaining an absolute advantage.
The Asian Youth League opened today at Tianmu Baseball Stadium with Taiwan’s Chen Muheng hitting twice in a row before his teammates’ fielding error allowed a runner to get on base and an infield strike out to resolve the crisis.
After two innings, Chen Muheng started with the last out of the inning, he made 11 catches without allowing the Korean team to get a foothold in the 6th inning. He retired with one hit, and today he served as a reliever with 2 hits, 7 strikeouts and no runs. Nen and pitched 1.2 innings for the win.
The South Korean team started today with left-hander Jung Hyun-yu, who is considered the top pick in this year’s Korean professional draft, the Taiwanese team was limited to the third inning with a first hit with a double, and Huang Tianxi added a hit, Liu Chengyu Was hit by a hit ball and pinched Quan Shaokai for 1 run.
The Taiwanese team was supposed to compete against Pakistan for the first time in the opening match, an absolute advantage in advancing as long as it successfully defeated Thailand in the final match of the preliminaries, it would be able to top the group and advance to the Super Round Robin semifinals.