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Brothers' bats go cold, tying team record for hitless innings

From Liberty Times · (10m ago) Chinese Critical tone

Translated from Chinese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

TLDR

  • The CTBC Brothers baseball team experienced a scoring drought, failing to get a hit for 12 consecutive innings across two games.
  • This streak ties the team's longest hitless run in history and is close to the league's record.
  • The team's offensive struggles raise concerns about their performance in upcoming games.

The CTBC Brothers are in a slump, and it's not pretty. For 12 straight innings, our batters have been unable to find the hit column. This isn't just a bad stretch; it's a historic one, tying the team's longest hitless streak from 1998 and 2021. If we don't get a hit by the end of today's game against Taiwan Steel, we'll be setting a new league record for futility.

Our last hit was a single by Kao Yu-chieh in the second inning yesterday against the Rakuten Monkeys. Since then, it's been nothing but zeroes. The Monkeys' pitchers shut us down completely, retiring 21 batters in a row. Today, we went three up, three down in the first inning. A walk in the second inning broke a streak of 24 consecutive batters retired, but the hit drought continues.

This offensive freeze is concerning. While our pitchers are battling, the bats have gone silent. The league record for consecutive hitless innings is 15, set by the Wei Chuan Dragons in 2021. If today ends hitless, we'll be right there with them. We need to break out of this slump and start scoring runs, or this season could quickly turn from bad to worse.

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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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