For the Cubs and Dodgers, the countdown to the regular season began on Tuesday, March 18, with their games in Tokyo. They will play a second match on March 19 before returning to the U.S. to wrap up ...

Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...

TOKYO — Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw five strong innings, Shohei Ohtani had two hits and scored twice, and the defending World ...

Major League Baseball also revealed Tuesday that Pirates star Paul Skenes will be the fastest No. 1 overall draft pick to make an opening day start.

That’s right, after being heavily recruited by the Toronto Blue Jays ... like to get to share his MLB journey with a pair of Japanese pitchers who followed the same path in the not-too-distant ...

Roki Sasaki rolled 99-mph fastballs off his fingers, while mixing in splitters and sliders to keep Cincinnati Reds batters baffled in his Los Angeles Dodgers spring training debut in Phoenix.

It seems the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes might have been worthwhile, after all. The Japanese phenom struck out five over three innings of his spring training debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday.

We've reached the quarter mark of the 2000s, and to celebrate, theScore's MLB editors constructed each organization's best 26-man roster from the last 25 seasons. We continue with the AL West.Jump ...

Another of the great things about this new season is getting to see Ohtani return to the pitcher’s mound ... last offseason’s big signing, fellow Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

A consensus top 15 prospect as recently as 2024, Montgomery, 23, saw his star dim a bit after batting .213 with a .381 OPS in a full year at Class AAA. But opportunity has arrived on the South Side ...

Of course, the Japanese mega-stars are about unprecedented ... three nuclear reactors killed more than 18,000 people. Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Yusei Kikuchi attended the same high school a ...