Julie Epstein was among the 60 or so fans ¡ª most of them foreign tourists ¡ª 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.