Baseball: Yamamoto, Sasaki likely to pitch in Tokyo opening series

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts plans to start Japanese pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki in Games 1 and 2, respectively, when the team opens the season in Tokyo next month against the Chicago Cubs. “I think it’s fair to say that Yamamoto’s going to pitch that first one,” Roberts said Wednesday, the first official workout day for pitchers and catchers. “And then with Roki…the plan is for him to pitch there.” “We’ll figure out when, and a lot of it is more contingent on the unknown of how he responds to spring training and his buildup. We just want to make sure that he’s in…

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