Chinese Professional Baseball League restarted its season Sunday, and one team employed a creative program to combat the empty seats at Taiwan’s Taoyuan Baseball Stadium.
The Rakuten Monkeys unveiled a slate of robot mannequins and cardboard cutouts for their matchup against the CTBC Brothers, and some of the robot fans even banged drums in the stands, per the American Foreign Press. Rakuten's home game was reportedly canceled due to rain, but the CPBL will continue to play through the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CPBL is the lone professional baseball league currently playing amid the coronavirus outbreak.