Tokyo – The main baseball leagueThe normal season started on Tuesday with an opening field from the middle of the road around the world.
The Los Angeles Dodgers team won 4-1 against Chicago Al-Ashbar in the first series of two games in Tokyo Dom, an internal stadium of 55,000 seats in the Japanese capital, where America’s hobby is seeking a wider international audience.
There may not be a natural place for the season from the beginning JapanA crazy Bessoul country with the star players Activating the American game.
Although the major league games have been played here before, they have not previously appeared on many Japanese stars, including evaders Shuhai Utani, a national hero.
Ohtani is one of five Japanese players who appear in games, along with the jugs of the evaders Yoshinobo Yamamoto And Roki Sasaki, Shota Imanaga and Cubs soccer player SEIYA Suzuki.
The excitement was clear on Tuesday in Tokyo Sky Tree, the tallest tower in the city, where the league established the fans experience.
“This is something that deserves to be included in Japanese textbooks,” said Dikki Akayama, from Osaka’s fans who described the baseball as his life, for NBC News on Monday. “I was very excited because I did not sleep in three days.”
Food is sold hot dogs, beer, beer, and candy apples in the form of a baseball game. People of all ages took their role in the cages of beating, and testing their skills in exchange for simulating the screen that followed their performance.
The amulet came out of both teams to interact with the fans, and even the co -cardboard characters of Japanese players drew long lines of people waiting to take pictures.
Fans can also take pictures of the Dodgers Cup from their victory in the World Championship last year.
Even a few American fans who made the trip.
“We will do anything for the evaders.”
What makes the team very exciting?
Moreno said: “It is all about Ohatani. He is our hero.”
Fans fill in the stadium during training sessions during the weekend to take a look at Ohtiani, 30, who signed A record contract of $ 700 million and 10 years With Dodgers in 2023, he is the National League MVP.
Although Ottani is still recovering from shoulder surgery other than his season, he is the associate of Dodgers playing in Japan for the first time.
Outani said he hoped to “mean the series is something not only for people in Japan but all over Asia.”
He said in a press conference: “The Tokyo Dome is the place where I saw my first football game and I am happy to return here, in this case.”
Even the baseball hall in Famir and 13 stars Ken Grivi Junior admired, saying that there are only “certain people” that will compare the Autani, such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.
“He is one of the players who stopped everything you do so that you can see what he will do … because it can be quick,” Greyi told reporters on Monday.
Since Japan mainly adopted the evaders as a team, tickets were sold to the Tokyo series quickly, as many seats cost more than some fans paid for a trip from Los Angeles
Moreno said he was struggling to buy tickets, which cost “an arm and leg.”
However, his companion Anthony Martinez described the journey as “once in a lifetime.”
He said: “I was shocked because we are here even here.”
Those who were unable to get tickets gathered in Skytree for watch parties, where Dodgers Blue prevailed.
Japan is seen as an important market for baseball, which was presented to the country in 1872 and is now the most popular spectator. Last week, Hanchin Tigerz defeated both Dodgers and Cubs in exhibition games in a sign that American sport is redefined as a global game.
Janes Maki Fryer, Don Liu and Arata Yamamoto from Tokyo, told Peter Quh from Hong Kong.
