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Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shōta Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki will be in the spotlight when the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs play at the Tokyo Dome to kick off the 2025 MLB season.
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The Dodgers and Cubs will open the 2025 season with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome. The Dodgers are the first team to open with overseas games in consecutive seasons.
The 2025 Major League Baseball season is scheduled to begin on March 18–19 with a two-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs held in Tokyo, Japan, before the rest of the regular season, which is set to run from March 27 to September 28.
On November 14, the Dodgers outrighted pitcher Connor Brogdon to the minors and removed him from the 40-man roster. [4] On November 22, the Dodgers non-tendered pitchers Brent Honeywell Jr. and Zach Logue, making them free agents. [5] On January 3, they designated catcher Diego Cartaya for assignemnt, removing him from the roster. [6]
Like the Yankees and Cardinals, the Dodgers have not lost 100 games in a season since World War I, with their worst record being in 1992 with 63 wins and 99 losses. The following year, the Dodgers finished at .500 for the only time in 141 seasons. The most wins the Dodgers ever had in a season was 111, which they did in 2022.
The Dodgers and Cubs will play at the Tokyo Dome on March 18-19, marking the 25th anniversary of the Mets and Cubs playing MLB’s first regular-season games in Japan.
Ohtani's 25th home run of the season was his 118th career home run, which surpassed Ichiro Suzuki's 117 career home runs to become second place on the all-time Major League home run list for Japanese-born players. Ohtani's five strikeouts in the game brought him to 157 on the season, a new single-season high eclipsing his 2021 total of 156.