A baseball team from New Taipei City on Tuesday won the US Pony Palomino Division World Series in Laredo, Texas, defeating a US West representative team from Azusa, California, 2-1.
Ku Pao Home Economics & Commercial High School earned the right to represent Taiwan in the Pony Palomino (17-18 age group) World Series after winning this year’s Wang Chen-chih Cup, a competition named after Taiwanese-Japanese baseball legend Wang Chen-chih, also known as Sadaharu Oh.
In the championship game against Azusa, Ku Pao’s starting pitcher Luo Yu-yan was erratic early on, giving up two hits in the bottom of the first inning, followed by a bunt and a wild pitch that allowed a run to be scored.
Photo courtesy of Ku Pao Home Economics & Commercial High School via CNA
He then settled down and pitched four scoreless innings, yielding only two more hits.
BACK-TO-BACK RBIS
Ku Pao’s offense struggled until the fifth inning, when a hit batter and a single by Tsai Sheng-jie set the stage for back-to-back RBI hits from Chen Chen-jie and Zeng Sheng-an that gave the Taiwanese team a 2-1 lead.
Tsai later came on to pitch the final two innings without yielding a run to hand Ku Pao the World Series title.
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