Chinese Taipei smash six home runs in victory against India

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<p>Defending champions Chinese Taipei swept the Opening Round

after blasting six home runs in a 20-0 win over India on Friday at the II WBSC

U-12 Softball World Cup at Jin-Long Stadium.</p>

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<p>Yu-Yang Wu and Sheng-Zhi Wu doubled up their home run output,

while En-Shih Hsu and Yue-Cen Wu each contributed an inside-the-park homer to

lead the offence of the home team, which had a productive effort to record 23 hits

and 14 RBIs as they move straight to the semifinals.</p>

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<p>Chinese Taipei’s solid hitting game started early, enabling

them to mount a huge 17-run lead, with three of the homers being scored at the

top of the first inning. </p>

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<p>But it was an overall great effort by the hosts as their

players were clinical and pounded on every opportunity to hit the home plate,

until finally India got their break with two outs to end the frame when two Chinese

Taipei runners left early.</p>

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<p>Solid pitching anchored by Yi-Chieh Lee and I-Ying Shih gave

the Indian batters to start on their offence. However, India managed to contain

the binge runs from their opponents, with only the three home runs being

recorded in the last two frames.</p>

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