The Japan All-Star Series officially kicked off earlier this morning, with the Major League Baseball All-Star team facing off against the national team Samurai Japan in game one of the best-of-six series at the Tokyo Dome. Our Milwaukee Brewers are represented in the international melee by Junior Guerra, who was called upon by MLB manager Don Mattingly to serve as the game one starter when the contest kicked off at 3:30 am central time, which was 6:30 pm local time in Tokyo.
Guerra led all pitchers on the MLB All-Star squad with 141.0 innings pitched in 2018, but he hadn’t started a game since September 2nd and was allowed to throw only 74 pitches during this tilt in Tokyo.