The Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Baseball League 1A team held its first Taiwan Day event to demonstrate the enthusiasm of Taiwanese overseas Chinese

The Major League Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Baseball 1A Ontario Bees held Taiwan Day today. (Central News Agency)

[Central News Agency] The flag of the Republic of China, symbolizing Taiwan, was printed on the 1A home court of the Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Baseball team today. General Manager Allan Benavides told the Central News Agency that this flag represents the cultural connection between the team and Taiwan. "We will do it every year in the future, and the scale will become bigger and bigger."

The Los Angeles Dodgers Minor League Class 1A Ontario Tower Buzzers played their final regular season game of the season at home today. Taiwanese player Ke Jingxian plays for the Taitai Bee this season. Before this game, he had played in 113 games, hitting 21 home runs, 85 RBIs, and a batting average of 0.262. All statistics were among the best on the team.

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TataiBee officials today cooperated with Taiwanese overseas Chinese groups to hold the first Taiwan Day event in team history. Although it rained before the game and the game started about two hours later, the fans' enthusiasm remained undiminished. Taiwanese rapper Da Zhi and singer Zi Zi performed a song and dance performance before the game. Da Zhi, Zi Zi and the chief of staff in Los Angeles, Ma Boyuan, kicked off the game before the game.

The Dodgers 1A, originally called the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, moved to Ontario this season and opened a new home court.

The golf course is a 10-minute drive from the Ontario Airport in California. This airport has two airlines and two direct routes to Taiwan, making it closely connected with Taiwan. In addition, there are tens of thousands of Taiwanese overseas Chinese and overseas students in Southern California. Today's first Taiwan Day in the team's history shows the enthusiasm of Taiwanese people in the greater Los Angeles area.

Before the game started, during players' practice time, the stadium's PA system played Taiwanese pop songs. What surprises fans even more is that behind home plate and on the pitcher's mound, you can clearly see the red flag of the Republic of China in the blue sky and white sun.

Allan Benavides, general manager of the Tower Bees, told the Central News Agency that the team will paint flags on the red clay of the stadium when it holds different cultural theme days. He said that the national flag on the clay not only shows the team's connection with Taiwan, but he is also proud that Sean Cheng, a team member and the field manager responsible for maintaining the competition venue, is Taiwanese.

Benavidez praised Zheng Xiang: "He is not only our chief field manager, I think he may also be one of the best field personnel in the United States." Zheng Xiang's parents are from Taiwan. Today, in conjunction with the theme of Taiwan Day, he specially put on a Taiwan national team hat to clean up the court.