Dozens of baseball fans in Osaka hurled themselves into a filthy city-center river and partied long into the night after the Hanshin Tigers won the Japan Series for only the second time in their history.
Members of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team celebrate winning the Nippon Series baseball championship for the first time in 38 years, after beating the Orix Buffaloes 7-1 in Game 7 of the best-of-seven series, at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka on Sunday, Nov. 5.
Tigers fan Yuko Kawase, who attends about 80 or 90 games a season as well as the team's training camps, told AFP that it felt"like a dream". Police had warned fans not to jump into the Dotonbori River, which authorities had described as like"swimming in toilet water".But the warning went unheeded after the Tigers' latest victory, with cheers erupting every time a fan hurled themself into the murky water, though no injuries were reported.
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