The stadium looked half empty, as was the case many times here last year and the year before that.
Only this wasn't the same place. There was a previously undetectable electricity, an unmistakable excitement.
Shohei Ohtani made Angel Stadium the place to be Tuesday night, a miracle last performed when the Rally Monkey first appeared on the video scoreboard here almost two decades ago.
The three-run homer against Cleveland Indians starter Josh Tomlin was produced by the most elegant of left-handed strokes, a first-inning line drive that sailed into the sea of outstretched hands in the right field stands.