"I almost cried when I saw the injury," 50-year-old resident Ayako Oyama said, referring to a partial shoulder dislocation the Dodgers superstar had suffered on a base-stealing attempt two days earlier. Despite fears that the designated hitter would be out for the rest of this series, he had bounced back, and Oyama, dressed in a blue Ohtani jersey, had come to the local auditorium where the city was holding a World Series watching party."},{
"The people in this region are known for having a serious, diligent and persevering character," Tomonori Toriumi, an official in Oshu's sports promotion department, said. "That is Ohtani. Even when he is under such pressure, he doesn't show it."
"I've never seen Oshu at the center of attention like this," Oyama said, clutching two blue bambams. Ohtani is, of course, a national hero in all of Japan, his image plastered over billboards, green tea advertisements and newspaper pages."
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