It's already a box office hit? 420,000 people sold 43,500 tickets. Is this the Otani effect
Feb 16, 2025
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs of the U.S. Major League Baseball will hold two consecutive regular season opening games at Tokyo Dome in Japan on the 18th and 19th of next month. This is Major League Baseball's overseas opening tour, and last year, the Dodgers and San Diego Padres played two consecutive opening games at Gocheok Dome in Seoul.
This year, it will be held at Tokyo Dome, and the heat is tremendous even before the start. The Dodgers have Shohei Ohtani, a national sports star in Japan, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a national pitcher who shared a meal with Ohtani last year. In addition, with the addition of Roki Sasaki, who played in the Japanese Professional Baseball (NPB) until recently, the three strongest Japanese players gathered in one team.
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Naturally, ticket sales were not 'ticketing' but 'ticketing'. General ticket sales for the Tokyo opening series began at noon (Korea time) on the 16th. The Tokyo Dome has a capacity of 43,500 people. However, Japanese media reported that about 420,000 people flocked.
Fans who tried to buy tickets posted a message on social media that 170,000 people were waiting even though they had logged in since last night" was the majority of the responses.
'Full Count' is "There was a huge congestion situation where tens of thousands of people were waiting because the number of users was exceeded. It was difficult to even access the site an hour before the ticket opened. Immediately after the opening of the ticket sales, more than 300,000 people gathered in an instant.
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Since it is hard to get a ticket to the main game of the opening series, many fans are aiming for a practice game. The practice matches will be held at Tokyo Dome on the 15th and 16th. On the 15th, the game between the Hanshin Tigers and the Cubs and the Yomiuri Giants will be held, and on the 16th, the game between the Hanshin Tigers and the Dodgers and the Yomiuri Giants will be held. In other words, Japan's most prestigious popular teams will face Ohtani and Suzuki's teams.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
