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Major League Baseball's 2025 season begins in Japan on Tuesday, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs appear in Tokyo Dome in one of the most expected international games ever.
“It's getting absolutely crazy,” said Dodgers outfield Teoscar Hernandez before the teams went to Japan.
Shohei Ohtani returns to Japan after led the Dodgers to a World Series championship, with the history book of the baseball rewritten with the first 50: 50 season in MLB history. The 700 million dollar -will get the greatest attention, but these teams show other Japanese stars in Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Rōki Sasaki for the Dodgers and the Seiya Suzuki and Shōta Imanga of the Cubs.
Yamamoto and Imanaga are the starters on Tuesday, with the Cubs as a “home” team in the first official game of 2025.
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With two outs in the lower end of the second grape, Miguel Amaya, an RBI Double -To Right -Center laced Yoshinobu Yamamoto and brought Dansby Swanson home for the first run of the 2025 MLB season.
Chicago leads 1-0 to the third inning.
The Cubs starter led Will Smith and Max Muncy to start the second, but received Enrique Hernandez, Michael ConfEorto and Miguel Rojas, to jump out and end the threat.
The Los Angeles Dodgers were already missing an MVP in their line -up and have no second one because they open the MLB season in Japan. The first Baseman Freddie Freeman was scratched against the Chicago Cubs shortly before the first playing field because the team made the rib uncomfortable.
Freeman, the most valuable player in 2020, was the last time the Dodgers played – when he was slowed down by an ankle injury during last year's World Series, even though he still won MVP honors.
Kike Hernandez moved from the left field to replace Freeman on the first basis in the Dodgers series against Cub's starter Shōta Imanaga. Michael Conforto, who was not in the original line -up, took Hernandez's place on the left.
The 2025 MLB season is officially underway, with the Cubs Linke define the Dodgers in the correct order of the first inn.
The former Cubs outfieler Kosuke Fukudome threw the first place in the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday. Fukudome joined the Cubs before the 2008 season and was an all-star as a rookie who finally returned to Japan in MLB after five years.
The game is broadcast on TV FOX and can be streamed on fubo.
The game on Tuesday in the Tokyo Dome is expected to start 6 a.m..
The start of the season on Tuesday will continue to be broadcast FOX and can be streamed over fuboWith the first pitch for 6 a.m.
RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dodgers – – 7-2, 3.00 ERA in 2024: In the first year, $ 325 million was limited to 18 starts to 18 starts, but went 2-0 in four starts after the season.
LHP Shota Imanaga, Cubs – 15-3, 2.91 ERA in 2024: The 31-year-old was an all-star and was fifth in NL Cy Young last season.
Masanori Murakami traveled to San Francisco this month 61 years ago to become the first Japanese player in the Major League baseball.
On Tuesday, five of his compatriots, including the national hero Shohei Ohtani, will compete in the Chicago Cubs at the start of their season as world champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
“Everyone in Japan will look at Ohtani on TV,” said Murakami, 80, who played and plans to take part in the two-game series for the San Francisco Giants in the mid-1960s. “The old people say 'He is such a good boy' and the young girls say 'Oh, he's so cool.'” – Reuters
The Dodgers have no top players when they open the 2025 MLB season.
Shortstop Mookie Betts will not play against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo in the two-game series because he lost £ 15, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told the reporter on Monday. Betts, an eight-time all-star, fought against an illness last week, and although he feels better, Roberts said that he was still trying to regain his strength.
“He won't play in these two games,” said Roberts. “If you are dehydrated, one person opens up to soft tissue injuries. We are very aware of it.”
– Steve Gardner, USA Today
It is 328 foot The lines down and 400 feet To center the field in the Tokyo Dome.
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