Chi-Hung Liu

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Chi-Hung Liu (劉基鴻)

  • Bats Left, Throws Left
  • Height 6' 2", Weight 198 lb.

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Biographical Information[edit]

Chi-Hung Liu played in the CPBL.

Liu was drafted by the Wei-Chuan Dragons in the first round of the 2019 CPBL Draft. He set the CPBL minor league record with 73 runs and 75 RBI in 2020, then recorded a .219/.287/.303 batting line in 2021. Liu improved to .264/.305/.380 with 9 homers in 2022, ranking 6th in homers (5 behind Kungkuan Giljegiljaw) and 7th in RBI (33 shy of Li Lin). He broke out in 2023, hitting .291/.343/.450 with 15 homers and led the league in hits. He was 3rd in home runs (7 behind Giljegiljaw), 2nd in RBI (3 behind Chien-Fu Liao), 7th in batting (.044 behind Chia-Jung Liang) and 7th in runs (9 behind Chieh-Hsien Chen). He was also selected into the 2023 CPBL All-Star Game, but he went 0-for-3, with a strikeout against Elián Leyva. In the 2023 Taiwan Series, he blasted two homers in Game 1 versus the Rakuten Monkeys - a solo shot off Pedro Fernandez and a walk-off homer off Wei-Cheng Huang in the 14th inning. He was the first player to hit a walk-off homer in Taiwan Series history. He was 1-for-4 with a double against Tzu-Peng Huang in Game 2, having a 1-for-5 record with a single against Jen-Ho Tseng in Game 3 and collected a pair of singles against Ke-Yi Chen and Hung-Wen Chen in Game 4. He was still reliable in Game 5 as he had a 2-for-4 record with a double against Fernandez, then going 2-for-3 in Game 6 with a game-winning sacrifice fly against Huang in the first inning. Liu extended his hitting streak to 7 games when he hit a single in the 5th inning against Tseng in Game 7, and helped the Dragons win their first Taiwan Series title since they were expelled in 1999.

The Taichung native then represented Taiwan in the 2023 Asia Professional Baseball Championship. He was 0-for-4 versus Japan in their opener, then went 1-for-5 with a single against Australia. Liu shined against South Korea, recorded a double against Tae-in Won then blasted a solo shot off Won in the 5th inning. He was 0-for-4 in the Bronze Medal Game against Australia again, and helped Taiwan win Bronze. Liu made it onto Taiwan's roster for the 2023 Asian Championship.

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