Ohtani's World Series appearance has the country buzzing

Ohtani's World Series appearance has the country buzzing

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World Series fever has swept Japan, a country that is said to love baseball even more than the home of baseball, the United States.

MLB.com reports on World Series fever in Oshu, Japan, the hometown of Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani, a member of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers.

The people of Oshu, where Ohtani grew up through high school, gathered by the hundreds at the city hall and cultural center to show their support for the Dodgers and New York Yankees in Game 3 of the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series.

Oshu isn't the only city in Japan experiencing World Series fever.

The day before, ESPN reported that Games 1 and 2 of the World Series averaged 15.15 million viewers in Japan.

Game 1, which featured Freddie Freeman's game-winning home run, averaged 14.4 million viewers, and Game 2, which featured Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers alongside Ohtani, jumped to 15.9 million viewers.

In Japan, where the time zone is 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles, 파워볼사이트 the World Series is being broadcast live on Fuji TV, NHK, J-Sport, and others starting at 9 a.m.

These Japanese audiences are larger than in the United States, where the World Series is being held.

Games 1 and 2 of the World Series averaged 14.55 million viewers in the US.

The U.S. also had its most-watched World Series since 2017, when the Dodgers and Yankees faced off for the first time in 43 years.

But the World Series audience in Japan, where Ohtani is a huge fan, was more than 1 million more than in the US.

If Ohtani achieves one of his high school goals - winning the World Series - there will be massive celebrations not just in his home town, but across Japan.