The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs open up the major league season on March 18-19 with the two-game Tokyo Series. The ...

A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had ...

The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...

Now Roki Sasaki might ... knuckleball pitch in baseball. We're talking about Sasaki's splitter, a pitch that is absolutely living up to its reputation as one of the best in the world in spring ...

The Dodgers will test that floor from the outset, with Sasaki slated to pitch the latter of the two games against the Chicago ...

In his first MLB appearance, Dodgers rookie Roki Sasaki displayed all the tools that made him such a coveted commodity.

On Tuesday, Reds hitters and MLB fans got a chance to see why.

The Los Angeles Dodgers' signing of Japanese stars Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki has set off a collecting ... cards featuring these players as the baseball world turns its attention to ...

All eyes were on the radar gun once Roki Sasaki fired his first Cactus League pitch on Tuesday night. The reading: 99.2 mph.

Last season, 204 pitchers averaged at least 94 mph on at least 200 four-seamers. Sasaki’s fastball would rank last in spin rate. (MLB baseballs are bigger and less tacky than NPB baseballs, allowing ...

Newest Dodgers star Roki Sasaki threw three scoreless innings in his spring training debut Tuesday night, striking out five ...

Some fans won’t be happy with Roki Sasaki ... best help him refine his delivery, and add life to a heater that dipped to 96-97 mph during his final season in Japan’s Nippon Professional ...