In the match on the 22nd, in which Shohei Ohtani of the Major League Baseball Angels participated, an event was held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Angels' first victory in the World Series in 2002.
Former coach Socia, who led the team at the time, and the players at the time of the championship participated in the event held at the baseball stadium, and there was also Alex Ochoa who played in professional baseball Chunichi and Hiroshima. ..
Ochoa moved from Brewers to the Angels in the middle of the 2002 season and has been one of the winning members, playing in China and Japan since 2003.
At the event, when the OB players wearing uniforms with the numbers of the time were introduced one by one, a big cheer was raised and a VTR looking back on the 2002 season was projected on a large screen.
The Angels often won the district championships in the 2000s, but only won the World Series in 2002, and have missed the playoffs for the seventh consecutive year.
At the event, the main player at the time, Tim Salmon, made a speech, and in April 2002, when the season started, he made a good start from the point where he lost a lot with 8 wins and 14 losses. I was sending ale to my juniors when I could aim for the championship.
Otani was practicing pitching with a bullpen, but when the 2002 video was shown on a large screen, he often looked at him and watched the progress at that time.
Due to the event, the match started at 7:01 pm, 13 minutes behind the original schedule.