"At the top of the seventh inning, Shohei Ohtani's critical double, he tied the score for us!" The commentators from Hokkaido faction saw this scene unfolding on the field and raised their arms shouting, "He proved with his actions that he is definitely not inferior to SoftBank's Lin Guanglai!"
Having hit a key tying run, Shohei Ohtani seemed quite emotional. Standing on second base, he clenched his fists, continuously roaring towards his team's player area, releasing the emotions he had been suppressing for more than half the game.
And the scoring momentum for the Ham Team continued: With no outs and a man on second base, they could rely on small-ball tactics to push for more scores even when reaching the latter part of the lineup; not to mention Kenji Oonari continuously allowed hits and was visibly unstable at this moment—why not seize the opportunity to score more runs instead of insisting on giving the opponent a chance to reverse the situation?
