Taiwan has been clobbering Hong Kong and China in the Little League and Pony League Asia Pacific regional tournaments. In the Bronco division, Taiwan defeated Hong Kong 29-0 (!) in a matchup that played like an unintentionally comic Pacific theatre re-enactment of the Bad News Bears, sans the uplifting unexpected comeback.
Hearts went out to team Hong Kong’s bespectacled left fielder, who appeared no older than eight years old on the TV broadcast and appeared afraid of the ball. It’s kind of hard to justify allowing a game to reach 29-0. On a positive note, team HK did feature at least two girls, one of whom took a beanball square on the shoulders and showed a lot of courage toughing it out.
At the little league level, Taiwan defeated China 22-1, while team Thailand defeated Team India 30-0. [Note to my boss if you’re reading this: There really are prospects in India. Don’t cancel any future India scouting plans.] Results of these and some less lopsided games (as well as a schedule for the remaining games) can be found here. (Photo courtesy of the always excellent Taiwan Baseball blog).
6 responses so far ↓
1 DJ // Jul 23, 2008 at 1:45 am
Did you notice that those two girls and that bespeckled leftfielder from Hong Kong beat the Indian team 42-0? Now are you sure there are prospects in India?
What gives with Australia? They suck!
2 Simon Currie // Jul 23, 2008 at 6:26 pm
The biggest run differential in a called game in Japan (maybe a world record?) when the Kuzuri High School Fukaura Campus team lost 0-122 in the Aomori prefecture qualifier in 1998.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%92%E6%A3%AE%E7%9C%8C%E7%AB%8B%E6%9C%A8%E9%80%A0%E9%AB%98%E7%AD%89%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E6%B7%B1%E6%B5%A6%E6%A0%A1%E8%88%8E
There’s even a book about it that justifies running up the score astronomically because this means that the winning team’s players never took it easy. Though I think it’s unsportsmanly.
http://mine-sc.ddo.jp/flash/syohyou/htm/122tai0noseisyun.htm
3 hansioux // Jul 24, 2008 at 2:27 am
more like when the Logicians beats the Niners on Deep Space 9… but I guess I am showing my geek…
4 IronChef // Jul 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I applaud the pitcher that hit the girl. That shows good makeup and an aggressive approach to challenging hitters.
5 delvin // Aug 10, 2008 at 4:26 am
can i see the 122-0 in english
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