Roki Sasaki delivers solid six innings, but Dodgers fall to Rangers
ARLINGTON, Tex. — Roki Sasaki will have to keep waiting for his first Major League Baseball victory.Despite his season-long six-inning, two-run start against the Texas Rangers on…
ARLINGTON, Tex. — Roki Sasaki will have to keep waiting for his first Major League Baseball victory.Despite his season-long six-inning, two-run start against the Texas Rangers on…
This is Roki Sasaki’s home now. The San Gabriel Mountains at his back as he stands atop the mound at Dodger Stadium. Stands filled with…
Roki Sasaki chose right when he signed with the Dodgers.Never mind not being ready to lead the rotation of another team and challenge Shohei Ohtani.…
TOKYO — The Dodgers have transformed into Japan’s MLB team after signing Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki the last two seasons. All the glitz of…
TOKYO — It lasted just three innings. It included a grand total of 56 pitches. It ended barely an hour after it first began.But was it ever…
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — Other than the concrete skeletal remains of a three-story office supply store, there was nothing on the expansive field.Just acres and acres of dried…
TOKYO — It was the overriding theme of last October, an intangible factor that yielded triumphant results.During their run to last year’s World Series, the Dodgers repeatedly…
If there was one big surprise this spring, it was the Dodgers’ decision to have Shohei Ohtani “slow-play” his pitching program over the second half…
PHOENIX — It all came as advertised.The 99-mph heat. The late-diving, hard-biting splitter. The overwhelming, if still raw, stuff that many expect will make him a future…
PHOENIX — As free-agent acquisitions go, Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki generated similar hype upon joining the Dodgers this offseason.Snell, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, was…
PHOENIX — The announcement came out of nowhere, so much so that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didn’t even know about it before his daily address with reporters…
PHOENIX — Last year, Yoshibou Yamamoto’s season debut was a cause for alarm.This year it will signal just how much trust the Japanese right-hander has earned entering…
When Sasaki held his initial round of in-person meetings with teams last month, the pitcher tasked each with a “homework assignment,” as his agent Joel…
Invincible.The word first came to mind Wednesday afternoon when the Dodgers held a news conference to introduce a nervous kid who has never played a…
Dodger Stadium remains under construction, in the midst of significant offseason renovations for the defending World Series champions.But hundreds of reporters flocked to Chavez Ravine…
Roki Sasaki was shown Tuesday night on the Crypto.com Arena video screen during the first half of the Lakers’ game against the Washington Wizards.The crowd…
Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer.That has long been the assumption among baseball fans regarding the Japanese outfielder who played the majority of…
Roki Sasaki might have been the exclamation point on yet another big Dodgers offseason.But the team isn’t done adding to its 2025 roster yet.In another…
In the wake of Roki Sasaki’s announcement Friday that he was signing with the Dodgers, it didn’t take long for grumbles about his free agency…
This is not a sad day for baseball. This is a great day for baseball.Roki Sasaki, arguably the best young pitcher in the world, is…