Baseball: Dodgers manager impressed by Sasaki’s competitiveness

Roki Sasaki’s highly anticipated major league debut turned out to be a wild one, but he showed some toughness by escaping a bases-loaded jam with back-to-back strikeouts in the third inning. Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told a press conference after Wednesday’s 6-3 win over the Chicago Cubs that he was impressed to see Sasaki avoid blowing a two-run lead in the last frame of his three-inning start at Tokyo Dome. “I think there were some nerves, understandably so,” Roberts said. “But I thought (with) the command, I think the emotions, the adrenaline was hard to rein it in, but in th…

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