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Taiwan baseball: Lin Yiting answers emergency call and throws 55 pitches over 3.2 innings

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

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Newswire Named sources Outcome reported
  • Twenty-year-old Uni-President Lions pitcher Lin Yiting entered after scheduled starter Ruiz Li was injured before the game.
  • Lin threw 55 pitches over 3.2 innings, allowing one hit and one run against the Fubon Guardians.
  • He left with the Lions trailing 1-0 and received loud applause from the team’s dugout.

Twenty-year-old left-hander Lin Yiting took over as an emergency starter for the Uni-President Lions after Ruiz Li injured his lower back while warming up before the game against the Fubon Guardians at Taipei Dome.

Lin had appeared in only three Chinese Professional Baseball League games this season and had pitched four innings before the assignment. He threw 55 pitches over 3.2 innings, gave up one hit and one run, and left with the Lions trailing 1-0.

Manager Lin Yue-ping replaced him with Wu Cheng-yu after two outs in the fourth inning. The Lions’ dugout responded with loud applause for Lin’s emergency outing.

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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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