translated from Spanish: Taiwan defeats Australia and Mexico to fight U.S. for Olympic pass

Tokyo, Japan.- Taiwan’s baseball team defeated Australia in a Premier 12 tournament match today, an outcome that will force Mexico to fight with the United States for a ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.Today’s match, played at the Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital, was the penultimate of the first phase of the Premier 12 championship, from which two qualifiers will emerge for the Olympics.
On Sunday there will be a first match, for bronze, between Mexico and the United States, and from there will come one of the Olympic qualifiers. Sunday’s second clash, for the gold medal, will be between Japan and South Korea, which already have their Olympic seats secured. Japan and South Korea will face off twice this weekend: the first on the same night, and Sunday for the final.

Two qualifiers for the Olympics, one from The Americas and one from Asia/Oceania, out from the Premier 12 tournament, which already has the ticket secured for Olympic venue. In today’s Australian-Taiwan matchup, it was the second who moved the score first, with a run in the third inning scored by Yuen Tung-Hua thanks to Wang Wei Chen’s boost single.

Taiwan players celebrating their victory over Australia in the Premier 12/AFP

They finished the next two innings with zeroes, but in the sixth Australian batter, Logan Wade, he scored a home run, the first of the day. The worst act for the Australians was the eighth, already close to the outcome of the match. He first scored a Yueh Tung-Hua career following a single by Wang Wei-Chen.
But the devastating blow came with Lin Che-Huan’s home run that also advanced Kao Yu-Chieh and Wang Wei-Chen, which set the final score at 1-5, without Australia being able to do anything in the ninth inning. Chen Yu-Hsun won in the match, with zero runs and zero hits allowed in one inning, and the loss went to Joshua Tols.
For Taiwan, the best hitter was Lin Che-Hsuan, who hit 4-2, with a home run and three RBIs, and from Australia was Logan Wade, who left at 3-1, with the other home run of the day and a rbide.

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