Take the fifth: Baseball in Taiwan features a smoke break  

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.

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