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Kyodo News
Kyodo News
The upcoming two-game set between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will be Major League Baseball’s sixth season-opening series in Japan. While Shohei Ohtani is arguably the biggest star of the series at Tokyo Dome from Tuesday, Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga are set to make history as the first Japanese pitchers to go head-to-head as MLB Opening Day starters. The first MLB season opener in Japan took place in 2000, with Sammy Sosa playing for the Cubs and Mike Piazza for the New York Mets. The next three series pitted Hideki Matsui’s New York Yanke…