The MLB season opens in Japan on Tuesday with a duel of Japanese stars on the mound. And then there's Shohei Ohtani, too.

TOKYO — When Kosuke Fukudome thinks back to his first professional season in Japan, Major League Baseball never felt like an ...

Chicago Cubs fans take pride in being underdogs, a role that ended briefly when they won the World Series in 2016 to end a ...

Chicago Cubs players Justin Turner and Pete Crow-Armstrong crashed a couple's wedding photoshoot while in Japan for the 2025 ...

The Cubs will serve as the home team during both games of the series, and it will be the first two games of seven that these teams play this year. However, since traveling to Japa ...

“They love their baseball. I mean, we were told there were 23 million people in Japan that watched our games. That’s just ...

The Japanese contingents on both the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers helped attract record viewership numbers.

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Shohei Ohtani hit a solo homer in his return to the Tokyo Dome, Roki Sasaki threw three eventful innings in his big-league ...

Follow live as the LA Dodgers make it a Tokyo sweep with a 6-3 win over the Chicago Cubs, following the world champions’ 4-1 ...

The Dodgers and Cubs set numerous records for viewership, merchandising sales and attendance for their Tokyo series this week ...

Lee and Fukudome, with Cubs mascot Clark in tow, were serving as ambassadors for their old team on their elementary school ...