china beats england in comeback, gets off to a good start in u23 men's baseball world cup
2024-09-07
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chinanews.com, shaoxing, september 7 (guo tianqi) on the evening of the 6th, a focus match of the 2024 u23 men's baseball world cup kicked off in shaoxing, zhejiang, with the host chinese team facing the british team. in this match, both teams failed to score in the first five innings. in the sixth inning, the british team hit a home run and took the lead in scoring two points. the chinese team withstood the pressure in the subsequent seventh inning to tie the score, and scored three points in the overtime to achieve a reversal, and finally defeated the british team 5:3, ushering in a "good start" in the competition.
the picture shows the match between the chinese team and the british team. photo by wang gang
this tournament is the first time that the u23 men's baseball world cup has been held in mainland china. there are 12 strong teams from asia, america, europe, oceania and africa participating. the host chinese team is in group a with australia, puerto rico, colombia, britain and japan, which currently ranks first in the world.
on the evening of the 6th, the world's 24th-ranked chinese team faced its first opponent in the tournament, the world's 18th-ranked british team. the two teams had never played against each other before. it is worth mentioning that many players on the chinese team, including wang shuai, wang xiang, and li yuyang, had participated in the hangzhou asian games and won the fourth place in baseball with the team.
in the first five innings of this game, the chinese team failed to hit more hits and failed to score, but fortunately, its defensive ability was strong and it resolved dangerous situations many times. pitcher wang xiang also played very stably. in the second inning, the british team hit consecutive hits and sent players to third base, but the chinese team relied on cooperation to destroy the opponent's excellent scoring opportunity; in the third inning, the chinese team encountered danger again, and the british team almost hit a home run, but the ball went out of bounds. at the end of the first five innings, the two sides were tied 0:0.
the deadlock was broken in the bottom of the sixth inning, when the british team hit a home run with a runner on first base, scoring two points. this was also the first home run on the first day of the tournament at field 1. in the top of the seventh inning, the chinese team fought back to the death, with multiple players including zhang aiqi and hu tianyuan hitting singles. the chinese team scored two points in a row, tying the score. the british team did not score in the bottom of the inning, so the two tied teams entered extra time.
in the extra innings, the chinese team continued the hot state of the previous innings, cleverly using the high-flying sacrifice hit tactic to score a point; then, the morale-boosted chinese team hit two hits and scored, expanding the score to 5:2. in the subsequent defensive phase, the chinese team withstood the pressure, blocked the opponent several times, maintained the advantage, and finally defeated the british team 5:3.
after the game, chinese head coach li wei said: "some players on the british team are very good, so we were ready for a tough game before the game. in this game, our goal was to strengthen defense, reduce walks, and look for opportunities to wait for the opponent to make mistakes when we don't make mistakes. i think our guiding ideology was verified in the top half of the seventh inning. we don't have any stars on our team, and the key to winning is teamwork." (end)
