Orange County Register

Lions, Bears, Bulls, Elephants. Oh my.

In Taiwan baseball, there is a 15-minute smoke break between the fifth and sixth innings. There is no seventh-inning stretch.

Andrew Lorraine wasn’t required to smoke, but that delay was just one of the adjustments the former Angels left-hander had to make in 2007-08 playing for the La New Bears in the Chinese Professional Baseball League.

And the fifth-inning ritual was nothing compared to the eight-day break Lorraine and his teammates had to ride out during the first of two typhoons (see Kaohsiung Stadium) he endured during in his stay on the island nation.

The preferred mode of travel was by scooter, which Andrew and son Mason (above) experienced.

The fourth installment of Lorraine’s global travels playing baseball will be posted on this blog Wednesday.

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