Roki Sasaki and the Los Angeles Dodgers will take the mound against Justin Steele and the Chicago Cubs in Japan on Wednesday morning.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will continue the opening of the MLB regular season on Wednesday with a game against the Chicago Cubs in the MLB World Tour Tokyo Series, played at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. This game does not start or continue the regular season for every other team, as there are still weeks before Opening Day. The Dodgers took the first MLB game of the season 4-1 Tuesday morning. Yoshinobu Yamamoto picked up his first win of the season, pitching five innings and allowing one earned run on three hits with four strikeouts.

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Shohei Ohtani finished 2-for-5 with two runs, while Tommy Edman, Teoscar Hernández, and Will Smith each had an RBI. Hernández also had a run, as well as Andy Pages for the four total runs. Tanner Scott, the ex-Padre, picked up the save after pitching one inning. Miguel Amaya had the only RBI for Chicago in the loss.

Roki Sasaki will get the start for Los Angeles in this second regular season game, another Japanese-born pitcher taking the mound for LA. This will be his first game in the Majors and will need the backup of the hot bats like Ohtani, Freeman, and Hernández to back him up.

Justin Steele will get the start for Chicago. He is 1-1 in spring training thus far with a 9.35 ERA and 10 strikeouts. He also has a 1.62 WHIP. He finished his 2024 campaign with a 5-5 record and a 3.07 ERA with 135 strikeouts in 134.2 innings pitched. He has been one of the most consistent pitchers for Chicago.

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