{"id":36303,"date":"2025-03-18T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/japanese-stars-shine-as-dodgers-beat-cubs-in-mlbs-tokyo-season-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:52:11","slug":"japanese-stars-shine-as-dodgers-beat-cubs-in-mlbs-tokyo-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/japanese-stars-shine-as-dodgers-beat-cubs-in-mlbs-tokyo-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese stars shine as Dodgers beat Cubs in MLB\u2019s Tokyo season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Five Japanese players appear in Dodgers\u2019 4-1 win<\/li>\n<li>Rest of MLB teams start their season next week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Dodgers were a long way from Los Angeles on Tuesday but with Shohei Ohtani and two more Japanese stars they were the home team for Tokyo fans in a historic MLB season-opening 4-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani had two hits and scored twice, with starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto getting the win for five innings work. Japanese stars were prominent in Tuesday\u2019s game: there were five in total between the two clubs, and Shoto Imanaga started for the Cubs as he faced off against his compatriot Yamamoto.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/18\/japanese-stars-shine-as-dodgers-beat-cubs-in-mlbs-tokyo-season-opener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Japanese players appear in Dodgers\u2019 4-1 win Rest of MLB teams start their season next week The Dodgers were a long way from Los Angeles on Tuesday but with Shohei Ohtani and two more Japanese stars they were the home team for Tokyo fans in a historic MLB season-opening 4-1 victory over the Chicago &#8230; <a title=\"Japanese stars shine as Dodgers beat Cubs in MLB\u2019s Tokyo season opener\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/japanese-stars-shine-as-dodgers-beat-cubs-in-mlbs-tokyo-season-opener\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Japanese stars shine as Dodgers beat Cubs in MLB\u2019s Tokyo season opener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}