They're off to the World Championship!! for the first time since 1996, Taiwan's going to face either Chula Vista, CA or San Antonio, TX (who are playing as I type... and wow Chula Vista is winning 9-0 in the first inning) (Luke Ramirez: age 12/13.. 6'0 205!! I want to see this kid's birth certificate!!). Against Mexico, Taiwan displayed defensive superiority and great pitching which is insane at this level... of all the little league teams Taiwan's committed the least amount of errors and passed balls off wild pitches, which seems to be a factor in scoring in little league play. Taiwan's ability to play clean baseball was the difference in the game, as Mexico committed several errors (uncharacteristically) and Taiwan capitalized on almost all of them. Mad props to Taiwan's pitcher Sung Wen Hua, who pitched a complete game which are getting more rare now that there's an 85 pitch limit rule and the fact that he did it against a really good hitting Mexico team is awesome. Tomorrow's title game is at noon on ABC.
Just something I wanted to gripe about: it's entirely stupid how Taiwan's uniforms say Asia-Pacific, when Japan's uniforms say Japan, it makes sense when Chula Vista is the West team, and San Antonio is Southwest. I also cringe everytime I hear "Chinese Taipei," which is due to completely political reasons... heck one time I even heard Brent Musburger say "Chinese Taipei is a beautiful island." Great.
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