Dodgers vs. Cubs Live updates: MLB Tokyo Series Game 1 line -up, start jugs, the latest

Today Yoshinobu Yamamoto will use the rubber in Tokyo and we will endure. Let us bring them up to date:

Are you wondering why the Dodgers and Cubs open the season in Japan in mid -March? Here is an explanatory for you. The short version: Baseball is huge in Japan. Shohei Ohtani is the best player in sports! Japan won the 2023 World Baseball Classic!

But Ohtani is not the only hero in the hometown playing in this series. Both opening starter -Yamamoto and Shota Imanaga -Plus Dodgers -Rookie -Pitcher Roki Sasaki and Chicago -outfielder Seiya Suzuki are Japanese.

It is really a golden age of baseball in the country. (I recommend this link.) It is not the first time that this happened for the first time – Ichiro's last games with the Mariners were part of the five earlier MLB series played in Japan.

At the weekend, both MLB teams played exhibition games against Japanese teams. In the stadium, in which Ohtani once sent a ball through the roof, he met again (obviously). The fully packed stadium, which came to an awesome sweat in front of every pitch was really something to see.

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