At least 500 people gathered in Taipei's Xinyi District on Thursday to watch a live broadcast of Taiwan's game against Australia at the World Baseball Classic (WBC), while many Taiwanese fans also went to Tokyo to cheer for the team, even though it lost its first Pool C game.
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