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The Tainan Uni-President Lions took a commanding 3-1 lead in the 2007 Taiwan Series Wednesday night, pushing the La New Bears of Kaoshiung to the brink of elminiation. Here’s a summary of the series thus far, courtesy of Baseball Reference and Wikipedia:
- October 20: Lions CF Sung-Hsien Yang went 3 for 4 and drove in three to help pace his team to a 10-2 rout. Figueroa allowed just 2 runs in 7, on a 2-run homer by Kit Pellow, while Huang was ineffective for the defending champions.
- October 21: The Lions win again (7-3), as Munro allows 3 runs in 7 innings despite allowing 11 baserunners. Hsu only lasted four innings for the Bears, surrendering four runs. Chin-Feng Chen hit a 2-run homer in the first for La New but the Lions roared back with five runs in the 4th and 5th innings. Tai-Chi Kuo (2 for 4, HR, 2 RBI) and rookie star Wu-Hsiung Pan (4 for 5, 2 HR, 5 RBI) led the offense for the Lions.
- October 23: Wei-Lun Pan struck out 8 in six innings and allowed 3 runs as the Lions ace took their first loss of the Series, falling to Andrew Lorraine. 2B Chih-Tsung Chiang went 2 for 5 with a homer and 3 RBI to pace the Bears in the 7-6 victory. The big damage came in the 7th when the Bears scored four runs. Of the 12 hits by the Bears, just one (Chiang’s homer) went for extra bases.
- October 24: The Lions move within a game of the title with a 11-4 rout. FIgueroa scattered 9 hits over 7 innings, striking out nine and allowing just one run. Kuo-Ching Kao cracked a first-inning grand slam and the Lions added five more runs in the 5th. Chih-Sheng Lin was 4 for 4 in a losing effort.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Boshy // Oct 26, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I’ve never watched Taiwanese pro baseball, but as far as I can see, their players are preforming the Koreans (where I live). But I don’t think people think of the Taiwanese league in that way. People think Wang, and then nothing beyond that. But I’ve noticed lots of Taiwanese players in the minors. More than Koreans in any case.
2 jackson // Oct 26, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I think there’s about 15-20 Taiwanese players in the U.S. including the minor league system if I’m not mistaken, most likely more than Koreans. This is rather odd, because major league scouts tend to agree that Koreans fit the physical description of players MLB teams are looking for more than Taiwanese players do in most cases. From my experience scouting, some of the most dominant players I’ve seen are Korean, so I’m not sure why that’s not translating into more Koreans in the majors. My guess is that given 5-10 years this will change significantly.
thanks for the comment
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