[New Tang Dynasty News, Beijing time, November 16, 2024]The Taiwanese team in the top 12 baseball tournament in the world will face the Japanese team at the Taipei Arena today. The two teams, currently 2 wins and 0 losses, will directly clash. It is determined that 33,000 people will be full. Watch the battle. The Taiwanese team’s starting pitcher, Chen Baiqing, faced off against the Japanese team’s starting pitcher, Hiroshi Saiki.
In the first two games of the preliminaries, the Taiwan team defeated the South Korean team 6-3 and the Dominican Republic team 2-1, and tied with Japan for first place in Group B of the preliminaries.
The Taiwanese team played a total of 3 hits in 2 games, led by Chen Chenwei, Chen Jiexian and Jiang Kunyu respectively. They are not heavy-hitting players. Even the head coach of the Japanese team, Hirokazu Ibata, bluntly said that the impression of the Taiwan team this time was different from the past. However, the Taiwanese team’s fourth bat was carried by Lin Anke and Zeng Song’en respectively. The number of hits has not yet started, and whether they can perform in the evening is also key.
The 26-year-old Chen Baiqing of the Taiwan Steel Eagles of the Chinese Professional Baseball League played in the Asian Professional Baseball Championship last year. This year, in the first season of the new Eagles, Chen Baiqing became the most stable starter in the team. As a native pitcher, he started 18 games (19 games played) and pitched 102 innings, second only to teammate Jiang Chengyan, and pitched 7 innings in 5 games.
On the other hand, Nippon Hanshin Tigers strong pitcher Hiroto Saiki played 25 games this season and pitched 167.2 innings, with 13 wins and 3 losses, an ERA of only 1.83, and 157 kilometers of fireball.
Although he had to face a crowd of 33,000 Taiwanese fans in the stadium, Hiroshi Tsaiki choked up when being interviewed, trying to calm down the atmosphere.
The other teams in Group B of the preliminaries currently have a record of 1 win and 1 loss for Australia, 1 win and 2 losses for South Korea and the Dominican Republic, and 0 wins and 2 losses for Cuba. Except for the Taipei Arena match between Taiwan and Japan, the Tianmu Baseball Stadium will be dominated by Australia plays Cuba and the Dominican Republic plays South Korea.
(Provided by Taichung City Government/Central News Agency)
A live broadcast event will be held in front of the Central City Government
The Taichung City Government will host this “Taiwan-Japan War” live broadcast at Fuqian Square, with band performances, cheerleading support, raffles and other activities to cheer for the Taiwan team.
The Taichung City Government issued a press release on the 15th stating that the preliminary rounds of Group B of the “2024 World Top 12 Baseball Championship” will begin on the 13th at the Taipei Arena and Tianmu Baseball Stadium, and the first live broadcast will be held at Fengyuan Park on the 13th. The event was held in the square in front of the Legislative Affairs Building and was well received by the public.
You Zhixiang, acting director of the Central City Sports Bureau, said that the city government plans to broadcast the matches between the Taiwanese team and Japan and Australia in the square in front of the Municipal Building on Taiwan Avenue tomorrow and the next two days. In addition to the live broadcast of the game, a number of activities will be planned from 3 p.m. on that day, including food stalls, band performances, cheerleading girls, lucky draws and other activities to cheer for the Taiwan team.
The Sports Bureau reminds people to go to the square in front of the Taiwan Avenue Municipal Building to watch the game. It is recommended to take the MRT or the Taiwan Avenue special lane bus and get off at the “City Hall Station”, or take other buses that pass around the municipal building, or use public bicycles YouBike Go to.
(Reprinted from Central News Agency/Editor: Lu Yongxin)
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