The Los Angeles Dodgers displayed their dominance on a global stage as they won the first two games of the regular season against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo, Japan.
The intention behind picking these two teams to play in the season opener was because the Cubs have two notable Japanese players — Shota Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki — while the Dodgers’ three Japanese stars — Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki — pale in comparison to the rest of a league that has no other team with multiple countrymen (with the exception of the San Diego Padres’ Japanese pitching duo of Yu Darvish and Yuki Matsui).