On the 17th, 27 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, professional baseball and Orix players and staff, who were based in Kobe at that time, offered a silent prayer to the victims.
Under the slogan "Ganbaro KOBE" in 1995, when the earthquake struck, ORIX won the Pacific League championship under the supervision of Akira Ohgi at the time, and in 1996, he won the league championship and became the best in Japan. , Has become one of the symbolic figures of reconstruction.
On the 17th, 27 years after the earthquake, at the baseball team facility in Konohana-ku, Osaka, about 90 people including Junichi Fukura, general manager who was an active player at Orix at that time, and So Taguchi outfield defense / base running coach and players. Turned toward the source of the earthquake and offered a minute of silence.
Coach Taguchi, who was active as one of the main players at the time of the earthquake, said, "My memory hasn't changed at all, and reconstruction may be progressing, but the first" don "sound I felt was still shocking. I wake up even if I sleep, and when the door closes vigorously with the van, it reacts and I think the trauma will not disappear for the rest of my life. "
Also, since Orix fought the Japan Series on the stage in Kobe last season for the first time in 25 years, "I didn't think I would stand as a base coach, but the sight I saw there reminded me of 27 years ago and weathered. That one game was big so that I wouldn't let them do it. I want players who don't know about the earthquake to understand that it is a team that has experienced such things, and I would like to talk to them if there is an opportunity. "