Taiwan's national baseball team may have lost an exhibition game to the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 4-0 on Thursday, but Taiwanese fireballer Hsu Jo-hsi's (徐若熙) dominant performance for the Hawks gave local fans reason for hope ahead of the World Baseball Classic (WBC).
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