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The Major League Baseball season officially kicks off Tuesday morning as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs meet in ...

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It's the World Series-champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Tokyo Dome to ...

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And for Shohei Ohtani and the four other Japanese players competing at home for the Dodgers and Cubs. Then there's MLB, which opens its regular season for the second straight year in the Asian market.

A supporter of the Los Angeles Dodgers, holding balloons of Shohei Ohtani’s No. 17, waits for the team to arrive at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Friday. Philip Fong/Getty Share Only four active ...

Baseball mania reached fever pitch in Japan on Friday with public appearances of national hero Shohei Ohtani and other Japanese players set to take part in MLB season-opening games between the Los ...