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ARTICLE VIEW:
Taiwan shuts out Nevada 7-0 to win its first Little League World Series
title since 1996
By Associated Press
Updated:
6:33 PM EDT, Sun August 24, 2025
Source: AP
It might not have been perfect, but for Taiwan it was still pretty
great.
Lin Chin-Tse retired the first 13 batters he faced and allowed just one
hit in five innings as Taiwan beat Nevada 7-0 in the Little League
World Series championship Sunday, ending a 29-year title drought for
the Taiwanese.
Taiwan won its first LLWS since 1996, although its 18 titles are the
most of any country beside the United States, including five straight
from 1977 to 1981.
When Chen Yi-Reng caught a fly ball in left field to end the game,
Taiwan’s gloves went flying into the air as the team piled in front
of the mound.
“We’re really happy that we have a chance to recapture the
championship,” manager Lai Min-Nan said.
Lin, a 5-foot-8 right hander, also smashed a three-run triple in
Taiwan’s five-run fifth. The 12-year-old from Taipei hit more than 80
mph with his fastball multiple times during the tournament; to batters
it looks much faster because the plate in this level of baseball is
only 46 feet (14 meters) away. His velocity appeared much the same on
Sunday.
Lin’s longest start before Sunday was three innings in Taiwan’s
opening game against Mexico. He allowed only one hit in a subsequent
victory over Venezuela.
“I am very excited,” Lin said through an interpreter. “In the
first inning, I was very nervous, but after that it was smooth.”
Min-Nan said Taiwan’s strategy throughout the LLWS was to “leverage
the defense as the offense. If the other team cannot get any runs,
there’s no way they can win this tournament.”
That plan worked pretty well. The Taiwanese gave up just three runs
during their stay in Williamsport, all to Venezuela in a 7-3 victory.
Garrett Gallegos broke up the perfect game with a single into left
field in the fifth inning but was caught in a double play when Grayson
Miranda lined out to second. Nevada was appearing in its first
championship game.
“I think you will judge this whole story, not by this one last
chapter, but the whole book here,” manager T.J. Fescher said. “They
will be heroes upon arrival in Las Vegas.”
Offensively, Taiwan capitalized on four wild pitches and a passed ball.
Jian Zih-De worked a walk leading off the bottom of the second and
later scored when he beat the throw home after one of the wild pitches.
Chen Shi-Rong scored Taiwan’s second run in the bottom of the third
when he ran home on a Nevada throwing error to first base.
After his triple in the fifth made it 5-0, Lin got caught in a rundown
between third and home on Tsai Yu-Ge’s ground ball, but he was bailed
out on a throwing error that went deep into left field. Lin scored and
so did Tsai.
The last international team to win the tournament was Japan in 2017.
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