Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles won Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series!!!

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス) is a baseball team founded in 2004; it played its first season in the Japanese Pacific League in 2005. The team is based in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture where people got the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. Their stadium was heavily damaged by floods during the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 2011.

On the day, the team was in Akashi City, Hyogo Prefecture where is close to Osaka, Japan. But their family was in Tohoku. When they had the news, they tried to call their family but they couldn't reach them and couldn't go back to Tohoku at the time.  

The staff and the players of Rakuten Eagles tried to think what they can do for Tohoku every night while they can not go back to Tohoku. They started a fund-raising activity in the away.

On April 2nd 2011, the captain of Rakuten Eagles, Motohiro Shima gave a speech in Sapporo Dome, Hokkaido. He said, "Let's show Tohoku's fundamental power!". This phrase was greatly encouraged the people in the disaster. If Rakuten Eagles can win the game, they can give a great hope and courage for the people.

The manager of Rakuten Eagles
Senichi Hoshino

But they couldn't win in 2011. They finished in 5th place. In 2012, they finished in 4th place. The manager of Rakuten Eagles, Senichi Hoshino believed the players. "Just do your best. That's it. Because you guys have a huge potential. "

They achieved a big goal yesterday. This win gives hope and courage for the people in Tohoku and in Japan.

Thank you, Rakuten Eagles! 

Thank you so much!!