'Oh my goodness!' A record-breaking 13 runs scored in the top of the first inning in Taiwanese baseball, a bizarre spectacle. The pitcher who surrendered a bases-loaded home run to Shohei Ohtani at the WBC suffered a disaster, allowing nine runs in just one-third of an inning.

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A record-breaking game unfolded in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), where 13 runs were scored in the top of the first inning alone. Especially shocking was the 'historic' upset where Jung Ha-oh-jun (29), an ace pitcher with experience in the 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC) held last March, collapsed before completing even the first inning.

The CPBL regular-season game held on the 13th at Zhouzhi Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan. The visiting team, Fubon Guardians, delivered a devastating offensive display against the home team, Chinatrust Brothers, scoring 13 runs on 10 hits in 17 plate appearances in the top of the first inning alone, securing a decisive 17-2 victory.

The outcome of the game was effectively decided the moment it began. Jung Ha-oh-jun, the starting pitcher for Chinatrust Brothers, was immediately shaken by allowing four consecutive hits to the Fubon lineup from the start of the game. Although he recorded one strikeout, appearing to catch his breath, he could not even hold back the lower-order batters and left the mound after securing only a single out.

Jung Ha-oh-jun's final stats for the day were one-third of an inning, six hits allowed, one walk, two hit-by-pitches, one strikeout, and nine runs allowed. It was recorded as the worst pitching performance of his CPBL career. Wei Chen, who followed Jung, also failed to suppress Fubon's powerful bats, allowing an additional sacrifice hit, resulting in Chinatrust surrendering a total of 13 runs in the first inning alone.

Jung Ha-oh-jun is a promising pitcher from Taiwan. After graduating from university, he signed an amateur contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2019 to challenge the U.S. stage but was released after the 2021 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He then joined the CPBL after playing in the U.S. independent leagues. Selected in the first round of the 2022 CPBL Rookie Draft by Chinatrust, Jung made a starting appearance against Japan in the WBC last March but was completely dismantled by Shohei Ohtani (32, Los Angeles Dodgers), who hit a bases-loaded home run off him, resulting in 2⅔ innings, five hits allowed, and eight runs allowed.

In contrast, Fubon's lineup was simply 'explosive.' The 13 runs scored in the top of the first inning tie the single-inning record for most runs in Fubon club history. In an interview with Taiwanese media such as SETN News after the game, infielder Wang Nien-hao, who hit three hits in four at-bats with three RBIs including a triple, revealed the secret: "I think the strategy of 'watching the ball and hitting the ball' was effective, rather than reading the opponent's pitch selection, as we capitalized on their mistakes and executed our own swings." Fubon recorded hits from all starters and piled up 18 total hits with no home runs.

The Chinatrust Brothers batters seemed to launch a counterattack by scoring two runs immediately in the bottom of the first inning to close the gap, but despite hitting 11 hits, they failed to score additional runs due to a lack of concentration. Compounded by defensive errors, they left behind the humiliating record of a 15-run defeat at home.

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