Focus Taiwan
Date: 04/16/2020
By: Flor Wang and Yang Chih-fang

Taipei, April 16 (CNA) The sixth game in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) was watched by some 650,000 viewers around the world Wednesday, according to Eleven Sports, which broadcast the commentary in English.

Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the game between the home team the Rakuten Monkeys and Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions was played to empty stands at Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium but was broadcast live on the Eleven Sports network and streamed live on Twitter.

According to the network, about 650,000 people tuned in to watch the CPBL game, which was the sixth in the only baseball season open anywhere in the world right now.

The first game of the CPBL season was played last Sunday, also to empty seats, at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium between the Lions and Taichung-based Chinatrust Brothers, after the first two scheduled games were postponed the previous day due to heavy rains.
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