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The Los Angeles Dodgers expect Shohei Ohtani to be ready to hit when the reigning World Series champions open their season in Japan against the Chicago Cubs on March 18 and 19. “I don't think he ...
A's) and 2019 for a Mariners-A's rematch that featured the final two games of Ichiro Suzuki's MLB career. This will be the Cubs' third time playing overseas, following the 2000 Tokyo series and ...
While Game 1 starter Jack Flaherty and Game 3 starter/Game 5 closer Walker Buehler are both headed to free agency, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is coming back, as are Tyler Glasnow and, most tantalizingly ...
The series began on October 25 and ended on October 30 with the Dodgers winning in five games. [1] [2] Freddie Freeman was named the MVP of the series, tying a World Series record with 12 runs batted in (RBIs) and hitting home runs in the first four games of the series, including Game 1 when he hit the first walk-off grand slam in World Series ...
A total of 71 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.
He earned the save in the championship game after pitching the final inning of Japan's win over the US in the final, striking out his Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout with a 3-2 slider to seal Japan's WBC championship, and won the tournament's MVP award after batting .435/.606/.739 as a hitter and posting a 1.86 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 9 ...
Japan has already shown dramatic interest in these playoffs — and not solely in the Dodgers, either. Game 5 of the Dodgers-Padres NL Division Series featured Yamamoto against San Diego’s Yu Darvish in the first postseason matchup of Japan-born pitchers in MLB history, and also the first MLB playoff game with three Japanese-born players ...
The Dodgers and Cubs will open the 2025 season with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome. The Dodgers are the first team to open with overseas games in consecutive seasons.