Yoshinobu Yamamoto's support tour cost: 60 million yen budgeted by his hometown of Okayama Bizen City. The tour is scheduled to be held around August this year, inviting 200 children from the city.

Mayor Takeshi Yoshimura, wearing a Dodgers jumper, said, ''We have so many talented pitchers from our hometown, so I want children to have dreams. I want to give it to you. I'm doing it"“I want them to have the chance to go to the Dodgers stadium,'' he said.