When is 2025 MLB Opening Day? Japan Series, matchups, start times, probable starting pitchers
As teams continue to prepare for the start of the 2025 MLB season, below is everything you need to know about Opening Day for ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
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Japan's passion for baseball on full display at Tokyo Series special events
It is hard to find a block in the heart of Tokyo that does not feature a banner or advertisement featuring Dodgers superstar ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
America’s Pastime Is Being Completely Transformed—by Japan
When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will underscore Japan’s pre-eminent role in baseball today.
After meeting with NPB, Rob Manfred not expecting change to Japanese player acquisitions
Manfred met with his NPB counterpart Sadayuki Sakakibara on Sunday, the second of two days of games between MLB teams and NPB teams.
Baseball was in need of revitalization. Japanese stars are giving America's pastime a lifeline.
Japanese players Shohei Ohtani and Shota Imanaga are transforming Major League Baseball and its fans — and the future of the ...
Smoking areas in clubhouse, no pitch clock: MLB players get a little taste of baseball in Japan
The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers can party like it’s 2022 on a baseball field for a few days in Japan, and even like ...
Tokyo awaits national hero Ohtani and countrymen in historic MLB opener
Shohei Ohtani and four other Japanese players will don MLB uniforms in Tokyo as the Dodgers face the Cubs in their season ...
‘Paint Japan blue’: How the Dodgers’ vision of Japanese prominence became reality
Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...