Julie Epstein was among the 60 or so fans — most of them foreign tourists — of either Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers or both, who unexpectedly spent Thursday morning at Fields, a sports bar in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, watching their favorite team become World Series champions.
Japan is 13 hours ahead of New York, so Game 5 started at around 9 a.m. on Thursday.
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