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<\/p>\nThe Boston Red Sox\u2019s Taiwanese infielder Cheng Tsung-che on Friday made his MLB season debut, collecting his first career hit, RBI and walk in a 6-1 home victory over the New York Yankees. <\/p>\n
Cheng, 23, was called up by the Red Sox earlier in the day and went 1-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a walk. <\/p>\n
It marked Cheng\u2019s second stint in the majors. He debuted with the Pittsburgh Pirates in April last year, but was sent back to the minors after three games, going hitless in seven plate appearances. <\/p>\n
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Batting with the bases loaded and no outs in the second inning, Cheng grounded into a force out at second base, but drove in Caleb Durbin to collect his first MLB RBI. <\/p>\n
His first major league hit came two innings later. After taking the first pitch for a ball from Yankees starter Will Warren, Cheng lined an 86.7mph changeup to deep center for a double. <\/p>\n
The drive traveled 407 feet before striking the center-field wall, MLB.com said, a distance that would have resulted in a home run in 14 of the league\u2019s 30 ballparks. <\/p>\n
Cheng also drew a walk in the sixth inning before sending another deep fly ball to the warning track in center field in his final at-bat. <\/p>\n
Before his promotion, Cheng had played 64 games for Triple-A Worcester this season, batting .254 after hitting .209 in 107 Triple-A games last year. He also showed improved power, hitting seven home runs after going deep only once last season. <\/p>\n
A\u2019s prospect Lin Wei-en to undergo Tommy John surgery <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Athletics pitching prospect Lin Wei-en, also from Taiwan, announced on social media that he would undergo Tommy John surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know that I have given it all along the journey, so I accept what happened today,\u201d the 20-year-old left-hander wrote. \u201cIt would be lying if I said I were not sad, but that is part of professional sports, and I choose to face it.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be back,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
Tommy John surgery, formally known as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, replaces a torn ligament on the inner side of the elbow with a tendon taken from elsewhere in the body. Recovery typically takes at least one year. <\/p>\n
The announcement came after the Athletics\u2019 Triple-A affiliate, the Las Vegas Aviators, placed Lin on the seven-day injured list on June 14 following a one-inning outing the previous day. During that appearance, Lin repeatedly shook out his pitching arm before being removed after throwing 28 pitches and allowing three runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox\u2019s Taiwanese infielder Cheng Tsung-che on Friday made his MLB season debut, collecting his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,28604,28603],"class_list":["post-764207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-the-taipei-times","tag-28603"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}