L.A. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani spoke in a rare interview about playing in front of a home crowd in Japan and what he's ...

Major League Baseball has had no shortage of stars, but it has never seen a sensation like Ohtani, who is Japan’s answer to ...

Shohei Ohtani's every step, swing and smile were intensely followed this week during his homecoming at the Tokyo Dome, an ...

Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...

The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...

I have seen an image of Shohei Ohtani, wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, gazing out from a vending machine while standing in ...

Shohei Ohtani even admitted to some nerves. There was little doubt this was no ordinary baseball game. But the Japanese ...

Shohei Ohtani hit a solo homer in his return to the Tokyo Dome, Roki Sasaki threw three eventful innings in his big-league ...

Shohei Ohtani blasted his first home run of the season in the Los Angeles Dodgers' game against the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday ...

But it's much more for Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was born in Japan. And for Shohei Ohtani and the four other Japanese players competing at home for the Dodgers and Cubs. Then there's MLB ...

"Shohei's impact in Japan is impossible to overstate," Dodgers president Andrew Friedman says. "We thought we understood it, but until you see it and live it, you can't fully grasp it." Ohtani ...

That is a reflection of the type of impact that Shohei Ohtani is having on MLB's business in Japan, an impact that has only grown in size since he signed a then-professional sports record 10-year ...