Baseball: NPB’s Tigers beat Dodgers after Cubs in exhibition series

Teruaki Sato hit a three-run homer off two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell, leading the Hanshin Tigers to a 3-0 exhibition victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. Shohei Ohtani struck out and flied out to center in his two at-bats as the World Series champion Dodgers were limited to three hits, all singles, at Tokyo Dome without Mookie Betts, who is dealing with an illness. A day earlier, Nippon Professional Baseball’s Hanshin beat the Chicago Cubs by the same 3-0 score. The Dodgers and the Cubs are in Tokyo to play the first two games of Major League Baseball’s 2025 season begi…

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