I feel for Chien-Ming Wang. I really do. He is struggling. After taking the loss in last Friday’s game with the Mets – giving up six runs (four earned) in four innings – he is out on the bump again looking just as good.
So far, in the middle of the 5th inning, he has given up six runs on seven hits.
Yikes.
Fast forward to August 2011. The grandfather of Chien-Ming Wang
was found dead in a Taiwan park. Police suspect suicide.
News report: An elderly man who was found dead Sunday in the southern city of
Tainan has been identified as the biological grandfather of Taiwanese
baseball pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, police said.
A paperboy reported around 5 am Sunday that he had seen someone hanging
by the neck from an electric cord tied to a horizontal bar in a park
in Tainan’s Guanmiao district.
When the emergency response team arrived on the scene, they found that
the man had no heartbeat and was not breathing, according to the
district police.
The police later identified the body as that of an 82-year-old man
surnamed Huang.
There was no suicide note and the Huang family said Huang did not show
any abnormal behavior before the incident. Huang was known to suffer
from high blood pressure.
He was the father of Wang’s biological mother. Wang was adopted at
birth and raised by his uncle.
According to Huang’s neighbors, he never boasted that he had a
grandson who played in the Major League but he did care a lot about
the 31-year-old baseball star.
The 19-game winner returned to the Major mound July 30 after a serious
shoulder injury that kept him out of competition for more than two
years.
Baseball pundits have expressed worry that the news of his
grandfather’s death could pose a setback for the right-hander.
But so far, there has been ZERO media coverage of this family matter
in USA newspapers or sports channels.
Fast forward to August 2011. The grandfather of Chien-Ming Wang
was found dead in a Taiwan park. Police suspect suicide.
News report: An elderly man who was found dead Sunday in the southern city of
Tainan has been identified as the biological grandfather of Taiwanese
baseball pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, police said.
A paperboy reported around 5 am Sunday that he had seen someone hanging
by the neck from an electric cord tied to a horizontal bar in a park
in Tainan’s Guanmiao district.
When the emergency response team arrived on the scene, they found that
the man had no heartbeat and was not breathing, according to the
district police.
The police later identified the body as that of an 82-year-old man
surnamed Huang.
There was no suicide note and the Huang family said Huang did not show
any abnormal behavior before the incident. Huang was known to suffer
from high blood pressure.
He was the father of Wang’s biological mother. Wang was adopted at
birth and raised by his uncle.
According to Huang’s neighbors, he never boasted that he had a
grandson who played in the Major League but he did care a lot about
the 31-year-old baseball star.
The 19-game winner returned to the Major mound July 30 after a serious
shoulder injury that kept him out of competition for more than two
years.
Baseball pundits have expressed worry that the news of his
grandfather’s death could pose a setback for the right-hander.
But so far, there has been ZERO media coverage of this family matter
in USA newspapers or sports channels.