CPBL Begins play in 2020

If you're like me and every other baseball fan in this country and in desperate need of some live sports, rejoice. The Chinese Professional Baseball League has begun play, and we've already got some highlights. 

Over the weekend, a video of Kevin Cheng hitting what is presumably the first home run in 2020 anywhere in the world made the rounds on Twitter, exciting baseball fans around the world, including me. 

Go Kevin! K.W.Cheng hits foul pole for the 1st Home Run of the world in 2020.

統一ライオンズの鄭鎧文のソロホームランは2020年CPBLの初得点！
このホームランは2020年の世界のプロ野球公式戦初得点です！#StayHome and watch #CPBL#CTBros#Unilions pic.twitter.com/FgyeCxrNhW

— CPBL 中華職棒 (@CPBL) April 12, 2020

Sunday's game featured the Uni-President Lions taking on the Chinatrust Brothers. The Lions won the game 4-1, but the Brothers did have a highlight of their own when Tzu-Hsien Chan hit a home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to get a run on the board.

#BrothersNeverGiveUp A game-tying homer hit by T.H..Chan.

反撃！
中信兄弟の詹子賢選手の豪快一撃は試合を振り出しに戻す！

To get an account and watch #TAIWAN baseball on #CPBLTV https://t.co/kUcyc6BvBJ#StayHome and watch #CPBL#CTBros#Unilions pic.twitter.com/fVCggVhUFk

— CPBL 中華職棒 (@CPBL) April 12, 2020

The CPBL, which I admittedly thought was in China, was founded in Taiwan in 1989. The league plays a 120-game season that runs through October. 

It was originally scheduled to begin the 2020 season in mid-March, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was forced to push its season back until this past weekend. 

​You can find all the games streamed live, for free, thanks to Eleven Sports in Taiwan. But if you're going to follow the CPBL, beware that Taiwan is 12 hours ahead of the United States, so a 6:35 pm game in Taiwan will start at 6:35 am ET. But with no MLB for the foreseeable future, it might be worth it. 

​Now, I just need to figure out which team to root for.