The Dodgers’ pursuit of Japanese star Rōki Sasaki included an unexpected request that may have sealed the deal.

The Los Angeles Dodgers ended up winning the sweepstakes for Rōki Sasaki in the offseason. However, they met a special ...

In this week's roundtable, FOX Sports MLB reporters Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar take a look at the head-turners — for ...

Roki Sasaki was the most anticipated rookie entering the 2025 season.  The Japanese-born was expected to be the clear 2025 National League Rookie of the Year. H ...

Sasaki allowed just two hits to the Rangers over six innings and left with a 3-2 lead. The Dodgers held it until former Rangers closer Kirby Yates, on for the save, gave up a two-run walk-off home run ...

Yates left a two-strike splitter belt high off the plate, and Josh Smith swatted it the other way for a leadoff double. Yates ...

(Thomas Skrlj/The Canadian Press via AP) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season games.

Sasaki, 19, looks to become the first player in Japan to forgo the NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) draft, play collegiately in the U.S. and then launch a professional career through Major ...

It's been some 70 years since we've had an all-female pro baseball league. Remember A League of Their Own, starring Madonna, Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, and Tom Hanks? That most beloved ...

All of this was a question with Sasaki in Japan." Sasaki had played just three seasons of professional baseball with the Chiba Lotte Marines in the NPB before switching over to the MLB.

Roki Sasaki’s MLB debut at Dodger Stadium ... Any pitcher could take time to transition from pitching in Japan to Major League Baseball. Sasaki was familiar with the Japanese ball, the crowd ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Rintaro Sasaki didn’t so much choose baseball as it chose him: Born to a legendary high school coach in Japan, gifted with a massive frame that generates prodigious ...