L.A. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani spoke in a rare interview about playing in front of a home crowd in Japan and what he's focused on personally this upcoming season.

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

TOKYO — There was the crack of Shohei Ohtani's bat, the roars from the Tokyo ... “To the city of Tokyo and the country of Japan, on behalf of the Dodgers and Major League Baseball, we just want to say ...

Shohei Ohtani hit a solo homer in his return to the Tokyo Dome, Roki Sasaki threw three eventful innings in his big-league debut and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 to sweep the two- ...

Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

a two-game series between the Dodgers and Cubs will provide the perfect showcase for Japan’s undeniable influence on the game. Ohtani is marking his homecoming, playing his first major-league ...

Major League Baseball has had no shortage of stars, but it has never seen a sensation like Ohtani, who is Japan’s answer to Babe Ruth. Shohei Ohtani’s return to Japan this month has the feel ...

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani hasn’t disappointed his fans! The post Amid Yu Darvish's Struggles, Ex-Manager Reveals How Shohei Ohtani Rose to Replace Japan’s Top Ace appeared first on ...

What happens to baseball in Japan, to the country's pro league, if the stars all leave for the United States? About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu ...

By then, the nation had its own professional league, the Japanese ... “But somebody like Ohtani comes along – and his Dodgers games are televised in Japan – everybody’s glued to the ...