Shohei Ohtani took the field at the Tokyo Dome to the roar of applause as a brief snippet of his walk-up song, "The Show Goes On" by Lupe Fiasco, played in the background. Never mind that Friday was just a workout day -- the excitement was real,

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed on Tuesday that the club will start Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki next week when they take on the Chicago Cubs in Japan as part of the Tokyo Series,

Yesterday the Dodgers announced that pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki would start the two-game series against the Cubs in Tokyo. Yamamoto, from Okayama, and Sasaki, from Rikuzentakata are both from Japan and both came to the States as high-profile international free agents.