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Full Version: Taiwan's Olympics baseball team
Taiwan begins campaign with win
By Paul Huang
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Thursday, Aug 14, 2008, Page 20
Pitching like the staff ace that he has become, Chen Wei-yin struck out seven over seven shutout innings to lead Taiwan past the Netherlands in a convincing 5-0 win in Game One of the Beijing Olympic baseball tournament at the Wukesong Baseball Field in Beijing yesterday.
The Kaohsiung County native, who enjoyed an outstanding amateur career at various levels of competition prior to being selected by the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s professional league in 2004, was simply magnificent in holding a potent Dutch lineup to three scattered singles over seven scoreless frames.
Fellow reliever Cheng Kai-wen finished off with a near-perfect eighth and ninth to keep the shutout victory intact for Taiwan.
“I couldn’t be happier with my performance today,” an excited Chen said after the game. “The velocity, control and breaking ball were all working as well as they can.”
Doing the damage at the plate with his bat was speedy outfielder Chang Jien-ming who went a team-best two-for-three with a pair of RBIs to keep his team on the wining track.
A patient Lin Chih-sheng showed exceptional discipline at the batter’s box with three drawn walks to jumpstart two of Taiwan’s three scoring rallies.
The contest began with Taiwan wasting little time getting to Dutch starter David Bergman in the bottom of the second with Lin drawing a walk, advancing to third on a double by Jiang Chih-hsien before scoring on Luo Guo-hui’s sacrifice-fly to claim a quick 1-0 lead.
After a scoreless third, Taiwan moved on again with Lin drawing a leadoff walk off Bergman and Luo following in his footsteps one out later to place runners on first and second to set up Yeh Jung-chang’s RBI-single that made it 2-0.
That was not all the runs that Taiwan would score in the fourth as Lin Tseh-hsuan also came through with a bases-loaded single for Taiwan’s third run of the game.
Chang then brought in the fourth run with another sacrifice-fly to give his team a comfortable 4-0 advantage at the end of the fourth.
Doubles by Shih Chih-wei and Chang in the bottom of the sixth scored the fifth and final run of the game for Taiwan which was more than ample for the win as the Dutch made it to second base only twice let alone scoring a run in the lopsided win.
TODAY’S CONTEST
Next up for Taiwan is Japan, which qualified for the Olympics by beating Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines in the Asian Baseball Championship.
Game time is scheduled for 7pm tonight with veteran right-hander Hsu Wen-hsiung a probable starter.
Taking the mound for Japan will likely be one of Naruse Yishihisa, Wakui Hideaki or Kawakami Kenshin since the staff ace Darvish Yu pitched in yesterday’s game against Cuba.
By Paul Huang
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER
Thursday, Aug 14, 2008, Page 20
Pitching like the staff ace that he has become, Chen Wei-yin struck out seven over seven shutout innings to lead Taiwan past the Netherlands in a convincing 5-0 win in Game One of the Beijing Olympic baseball tournament at the Wukesong Baseball Field in Beijing yesterday.
The Kaohsiung County native, who enjoyed an outstanding amateur career at various levels of competition prior to being selected by the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s professional league in 2004, was simply magnificent in holding a potent Dutch lineup to three scattered singles over seven scoreless frames.
Fellow reliever Cheng Kai-wen finished off with a near-perfect eighth and ninth to keep the shutout victory intact for Taiwan.
“I couldn’t be happier with my performance today,” an excited Chen said after the game. “The velocity, control and breaking ball were all working as well as they can.”
Doing the damage at the plate with his bat was speedy outfielder Chang Jien-ming who went a team-best two-for-three with a pair of RBIs to keep his team on the wining track.
A patient Lin Chih-sheng showed exceptional discipline at the batter’s box with three drawn walks to jumpstart two of Taiwan’s three scoring rallies.
The contest began with Taiwan wasting little time getting to Dutch starter David Bergman in the bottom of the second with Lin drawing a walk, advancing to third on a double by Jiang Chih-hsien before scoring on Luo Guo-hui’s sacrifice-fly to claim a quick 1-0 lead.
After a scoreless third, Taiwan moved on again with Lin drawing a leadoff walk off Bergman and Luo following in his footsteps one out later to place runners on first and second to set up Yeh Jung-chang’s RBI-single that made it 2-0.
That was not all the runs that Taiwan would score in the fourth as Lin Tseh-hsuan also came through with a bases-loaded single for Taiwan’s third run of the game.
Chang then brought in the fourth run with another sacrifice-fly to give his team a comfortable 4-0 advantage at the end of the fourth.
Doubles by Shih Chih-wei and Chang in the bottom of the sixth scored the fifth and final run of the game for Taiwan which was more than ample for the win as the Dutch made it to second base only twice let alone scoring a run in the lopsided win.
TODAY’S CONTEST
Next up for Taiwan is Japan, which qualified for the Olympics by beating Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines in the Asian Baseball Championship.
Game time is scheduled for 7pm tonight with veteran right-hander Hsu Wen-hsiung a probable starter.
Taking the mound for Japan will likely be one of Naruse Yishihisa, Wakui Hideaki or Kawakami Kenshin since the staff ace Darvish Yu pitched in yesterday’s game against Cuba.
cool, gl to them. China isnt so good at baseball as i saw in the match with Canada....lol mercy rule....>_>
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QUOTE(Red Fox Ace @ Aug 13 2008, 05:56 PM) [snapback]3868757[/snapback]
Great!
its gonna be tough beating japan but we got a chance!
what is the taiwanese guy name who play for MLB, is he playing for taiwan?
hopefully taiwan advances further. japan is a good team but taiwan should beat them. 1,2,3 strikeout!
hopefully taiwan advances further. japan is a good team but taiwan should beat them. 1,2,3 strikeout!
QUOTE(InitialDJay @ Aug 14 2008, 02:32 AM) [snapback]3869908[/snapback]
what is the taiwanese guy name who play for MLB, is he playing for taiwan?
Wang Chien-Ming, ace pitcher for the Yankees, but he can't play in the Olympics - Yankees wouldn't let him (it's mid-season right now,) and he's injured anyway.
Lost to Japan. 6-1.
QUOTE(Red Fox Ace @ Aug 14 2008, 03:21 PM) [snapback]3870898[/snapback]
Lost to Japan. 6-1.
No hard feelings chap. The Japanese are quite good in that sport.
god we lost to China....
what's that song called after the loss to China?
QUOTE(fuznut88 @ Aug 15 2008, 12:59 AM) [snapback]3871642[/snapback]
god we lost to China....
Huh?
QUOTE(Red Fox Ace @ Aug 15 2008, 02:15 AM) [snapback]3871712[/snapback]
Huh?
China's team beat Taiwan's team 8-7. I didn't even know China had a baseball and softball team until today, when they both played.
oh well.... 
Ouch, I would have thought ROC's team should be a lot stronger than PRC.
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If Ma was already in power last year, I believe not only will the Torch march into taipei, Taipei would have been hosting the Baseball Olympics right now, just as HK is hosting the equestrian races.
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If Ma was already in power last year, I believe not only will the Torch march into taipei, Taipei would have been hosting the Baseball Olympics right now, just as HK is hosting the equestrian races.
in this olympic, taiwan had a good start and finished poorly.
there is no hope for taiwan to be contending for medal. usa, korea, cuba seem a good choice right now
there is no hope for taiwan to be contending for medal. usa, korea, cuba seem a good choice right now
Full of disappointments for Taiwan. First hanging in tight against Japan, until Japan pulled away to avoid an upset. Then the shocking loss to China. Then the 2-1 loss to Cuba. Then the attempt to come back against South Korea, so close.......
Dammit.
Dammit.
QUOTE(Red Fox Ace @ Aug 19 2008, 04:03 PM) [snapback]3880291[/snapback]
Full of disappointments for Taiwan. First hanging in tight against Japan, until Japan pulled away to avoid an upset. Then the shocking loss to China. Then the 2-1 loss to Cuba. Then the attempt to come back against South Korea, so close.......
Dammit.
Dammit.
always next olympics
lol
QUOTE(kunomchu @ Aug 19 2008, 07:46 PM) [snapback]3880641[/snapback]
always next olympics
lol
lol
Next Olympics, there won't be baseball.
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