It was an outcome that no one -- perhaps not even the team's own manager -- would have predicted. In the gold medal contest between Chinese Taipei and the seemingly unstoppable Samurai Japan, who had won 27 consecutive games dating back to 2019,

Taiwan won the Premier 12, a national baseball competition, for the first time.Taiwan defeated Japan 4-0 with Jeon Je-shan's three-run home run in the final

Lin Chia-Cheng hit a solo home run and team captain Chen Chieh-Hsien connected on a three-run shot as Taiwan claimed the Premier12 title with a 4-0 upset of Japan at Tokyo Dome on Sunday night.

We are writing our own history story,” Chinese Taipei manager Hao-Jiu Tseng said after his team upset the United States earlier this week to keep its Premier12 gold medal hopes alive. When the U.S. then defeated Venezuela on Friday,

Taiwanese fighter jets will welcome back a flight carrying the island's baseball team after its victory in the Premier12 final in Japan thrilled fans at home on Sunday. Taiwan is not a global sporting powerhouse but baseball is hugely popular, having been introduced during the Japanese colonial era from 1895 to 1945.

T he final day of the WBSC Premier12 featured a repeat of the last day of the super round, with the United States and Venezuela matching up for the bronze medal and Chinese Taipei