Shohei Ohtani will once again be one of the top players in the World Baseball Classic with Team Japan. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar designated hitter/pitcher helped Japan to its first World ...

MIAMI — They started to trudge of the clubhouse at 1:23 a.m. Sunday, their heads down, eyes glazed, mostly staring straight ahead. The large contingent of reporters, perhaps 100 in all, waited behind ...

In the quiet aftermath of a national heartbreak, the words of Shohei Ohtani carried the weight of an entire baseball nation on Monday when the two-way sensation wrote a heartfelt message on his ...

In Samurai Japan’s first game of this World Baseball Classic, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was unsettled by a formidable offense. His own. Japan scored 10 runs in the second inning of its 13-0 mercy-rule ...

Japanese fans don't get to see Shohei Ohtani in person very often. They got an eyeful Friday in a sellout at the Tokyo Dome. Ohtani hit a grand slam in the second inning as Japan hammered Taiwan 13-0 ...

TOKYO — This is the Shohei Ohtani effect. Ohtani put on a giant show in batting practice hours before he hit a grand slam in the second inning – in the first he doubled on the first pitch of the game ...

As Shohei Ohtani progressed through rehab, increased his stamina and began to resemble a traditional starting pitcher down ...

Omar Lopez didn’t have to give a pregame speech Saturday. The Venezuelan manager and his team already knew the challenge ahead of it in its World Baseball Classic quarterfinal. It knew it would have ...