The Cuban team will arrive in Taiwan today.

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[Reporter Wu Qingzheng/Comprehensive Report] The classic Cuban team played the last warm-up match in Japan yesterday. Refa, who had just signed a contract with Lotte Taoyuan, started against Softbank. He lost 3 points in 2 innings. Cuba ended 2:5 Swallow.

Cuba will fly to Taiwan this afternoon and will be the first foreign team to arrive in Taiwan.

Refa was hit with 4 hits, 3 strikeouts and 1 ball. In the second inning, Cuba made a mistake after 2 outs. Responsibility points.

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Cuba played 5 warm-up matches in Japan, with a record of 2 wins and 3 losses. It won the China-Japan team and Yakult, and lost to Nippon Ham, Giants and Softbank.

The last time Cuba came to Taiwan was the World Top 12 in 2015. It has been nearly 8 years since Cuba came to Taiwan again. It will practice at Xinzhuang Stadium and have 3 self-organized warm-up matches. Jiang and Fubon will fight again at 7 pm on the 27th, and against Wei Quanlong at 12 noon on the 28th.

Afterwards, Cuba will play two official warm-up matches, against Lotte Taoyuan at the Douliu Stadium at 7:00 pm on March 5, and against CITIC Brothers at the Intercontinental Stadium at 12:00 on the 6th.

Since the major leagues stipulate that their players can only play outside the game three days before the start of the preliminaries of each group of the classic game, the Cuban major league players will only play in the official warm-up match.

Cuba will face the Netherlands in the opening match of Group A of the preliminaries on March 8, and will play against the Taiwan team on the last day of the preliminaries on the 12th.