VIDEO: Taiwanese Baseball League Proves Walk-Off Home Runs With Nobody in the Crowd Are Awfully Depressing

Taiwan's CPBL hasn't stopped play amid the coronavirus pandemic (and their excellent mitigation efforts), but they are playing with cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands rather than actual people. While this does mean that the season is going on as planned, a lot of the excitement has been sucked out of the game, as evidenced when this Rakuten Monkeys player smacked a walk-off home run that echoed through an empty stadium on Wednesday.

This was an amazing back-and-forth game, and most importantly, for American fans, it actually aired live on Twitter! Unfortunately, though, if and when the game returns to us stateside, it will likely look a bit like this.

The way the virus is spreading in the country, we might need to get used to seeing baseball games like this for quite a while. Though the empty echo is strange, it's likely better than nothing.