Due to my location being a 12 hour difference from East Coast time, it makes it pretty difficult to follow the world series in real time. Yesterday was more of the same for me - I was at a local conference and nobody was really paying much attention. There are a bunch of Ohtani fans here in Asia, but no one else seemed to be paying attention to the game either.

At lunch, I check the score, thinking it was over. No such luck as it is tied 5-5 and going to extra innings. And it keeps going, and going and going. Now, I am not paying attention to the speaker at all, getting the pictch-by-pitch updates. I look around, and it seems other people are also paying more attention to their phones than normal.

I finally see Freeman hit a homerun, and it doesn't register that the game is over. I can't see the celebration at the plate, and I think the game is still going to continue. Let's play another inning. It doesn't hit me until a few minutes later that the game is actually over!

Congratulations to both teams, and good luck tonight. Congratulations to baseball fans who literally got to see a complete second game.