Tokyo – Sota Fujimori is the luckiest child in Japan.
Sitting in the right center field on Wednesday night at Tokyo Dome, he saw Shohei Ohtani home run In the fifth entrance it falls from the hands of another close fan, and returns to the field.
It seemed bad luck.
“I thought I had missed at first,” he said, doing an interview later in Japanese to explain with a small group of reporters.
The central gardener of the puppies, Pete Crow-Armstrong, made his night, throwing the ball into the stands.
The young Sota recovered him when the referees reviewed the play to make sure the ball would have cleared the wall and Ohtani had his first homer of the season.
He Dodgers defeated the puppies 6-3Making the full cassock night. He said it was the first time he had seen Ohtani in person. The Dodgers also won on Tuesday 4-1, sweeping the two games series in Tokyo to open the regular MLB season.
Sota is from Saitama, located just north of Greater Tokyo. He wore a blue dodgers shirt and a baseball glove on his right hand, and took out the ball of memories of a small backpack to show off.
It seemed astonished but delighted.
His parents asked not to take a picture of their son’s face, and they were reluctant to give many more details. But the photos of the ball were fine.
Sota told reporters that he is also a gardener and in the fourth grade.
“I was very surprised,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it.
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