Amidst the terrifying wave of sound that could make one's legs weaken and heart stop, Lin Guanglai appeared at the center of the camera:
In the Softbank Team's dugout, he picked up his distinctive pitcher's glove, and steadily, step by step, emerged from the shadows of the bench into the yellow inferno, exposed to fifty thousand razor-sharp gazes.
The expression on his face was no different from usual, as if the frenzy of the scene had no impact on him at all.
In the stands, a Hanshin Tigers fan swung an image he held towards the camera repeatedly: in this personally hand-drawn caricature, Lin Guanglai was distorted cartoonishly into a clown, kneeling humbly before a character wearing a Hanshin Tigers jersey, with billowy red marks on his face — a creation that surely satisfied Hanshin fans and brought loud cheers from the crowd.
