Etiquetas
baseball, cpbl, mlb, opening day, taiwan
Yesterday, as well as MLB Opening Day was CPBL Opening Day, the ceremony is a like a circus. Girls, mascots, umpires dancing;the military marching around the field, is a complete festival, even fireworks before the game.
You can press the link down here to see some dance in the ceremony.
The first game of the season was between the defending champion Uni-Lions 7-11 and the runners up EDA Rhinos, you can imagine the expectations for this game, both starting pitchers have some background in the Minor leagues,Ching-Lung Lo (羅錦龍) and Andrew Sisco with some Major league experience.
Ching-Lung Lo
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=lo—-001chi
Andrew Sisco
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/siscoan01.shtml
The game was pretty exciting with both teams trying to show how much they’ve improved in the offseason, the fans were going nuts after a long wait for the new season to start.
The Uni-Lions won 8-4 in a close game until the 7th inning when the Uni-Lions score 3 runs, Andrew Sisco had a rough start in the league giving up 6 hits and 4 earned runs in 3 innings, taking the lost for the Eda Rhinos, and the winning pitcher was Ching-Lung Lo taking 7 hits and 4 earned runs in 6 innings, boths teams were really aggresive in offense.
In Taiwan every game there is a MVP and they have a small interview at the end of the game, the MVP was 王寶篁 Pao-Huang Wang, he was 2-2 on the plate with a BB also on his name, it was also pretty solid on defense.
Pao-Huang Wang MVP player of the 1st game of the league
One of the hits of Pao-Huang Wang.
http://www.cpbltv.com/vod/content/251.html
To close the game came Hong-Chi Kuo making his return to Taiwan and taking the closing job for the Uni-Lions, he has been a starter most of his career, his top speed right now is around 153km/h around 95mph, everytime he throws a 95mph fastball the people just go crazy.
Hong-Chi Kuo stats in the majors
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kuoho01.shtml
This is the boxscore for the game: (mandarin language)
http://www.cpbl.com.tw/game/box.aspx?gameno=01&year=2014&game=1
I’ve been thinking that I will start writing about Taiwanese prospects in the Major League and also Japan and maybe some historic moments in Taiwan baseball and some famous taiwanese players that have been in the majors.
Like the new rising star Wei-Chung Wang, I really hope the Brewers keep this Rule 5 pick, is a strike throwing machine, definetly a name that we will be hearing for a good while.
Well, thats all for today and if you want me to talk anything about taiwan baseball just leave your comment below.
Baseball is beautiful 