Tokyo – They shouted.
They shouted and made this noise that the crowds make when thousands of people scream at the same time, this voice that hears when the host team takes the initiative late in a separate match.
Autani Take the field – for exercise.
“That”, the third rule man Max Monsey He said, “It was a great moment for all of us to see it.”
Imagine if Al -Autani had already taken the multiplication of Friday like most of the other Evading The hunger. Imagine a reaction 10,507 fans Those who mobilized the lower seats behind the home panel and the wrong fonts in the Tokyo dome.
The evaders are World series revocation. They have two high -level Japanese players other than Ohtani at the beginning of the opening day Yoshinobo Yamamoto And the rising football player Rocky Sasaki. They have other signing players in proverbs Freddy Freeman and Mookie best.
However, the crowd’s response to Ohtiani re -established a long -term truth about the evaders: from the point of view of Japan, there is Uhani and then anyone else.
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The evaders are the circulating stones, and I missed Make Jaghir.
“If it is not for O and I do not think that all Japan will be in a state of frenzy like this,” said Taka Hattori, one of the 51 -year -old fans and wore a 17 -year -old shirt with the 17th manufacturer with a “shell” on his back.
The fans of the annoying in a nearby hall of 30,000 square feet converted to a A temporary memorial store. Hundreds of day at Hanida Airport attended a look at the evaders, who arrived in the Tokyo series, which opened for the match season against Chicago Cubs that start on Tuesday.
More than 1000 of the media accreditation data has been released for the sold games. The price of demand in the secondary market to obtain the lowest tickets in the neighborhood of $ 1500.
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Hatory paid 18,000 yen, or about 120 dollars, to join Dodgers ClubAnd that entered it into a lottery ticket for the Japan series.
He did not win.
Haturi settled on the exercise on Friday, where he managed to purchase tickets from a friend of the nominal value of 2000 yen, or about 13 dollars.
“I personally love Echiro [Suzuki]Haturi said. “I managed to see Ichiro playing here on the opening day. But it wasn’t like this.”
Haturi described Ohi as “from another world.”
“Of course, Outani is a representative of Japan,” Hatore said. “But this does not matter whether it is Japanese, American, or Korean. I feel that he has reached the level in which no specific country is represented, but rather a representative of baseball.”
Rona Misaki traveled from her hometown in Osaka to see the exercise with her friend Yuko Hanashima.
Dodgers hats at a memorial store at the Tokyo Dome are trying on Friday.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
They said that they were attracted to Ohtiani by his personality like his performance.
“I think he really loves baseball,” Hanashima said. “I think he loves baseball more than anyone else. I think this is why children love him so much.”
Maysaki said she would return to Tokyo on Sunday in an exhibition match against Hanchin Tigerers. Tickets for that game, as well as for the match on Saturday against Giants Yomiuri, are sold in the secondary market for $ 600.
“I would like to open here every season,” said Maysaki.
The popularity of Otani here is that other evaders are famous by the association.
The fans collectively wave the manager Dave RobertsThose who waved again. They shouted names Teskar Hernandez and Miguel Rojas. They shouted with joy when Freeman confessed to them with a tenderness from the glove.
They also watched the beating with the same focus they were watching a game. Portfolio endoscopes and cameras are directed in the mixture box. Some fans noticed the movement while arresting sleeping children. Each round of hitting with applause.
Keep in mind that this was for exercise. The first official game was still four days away.
